Lab News

2026

Mary Hunter joins the lab for the summer

May 26, 2026

Mary joins the lab as this years SURF MedEx scholar. Welcome Mary!

Lab's first cryoEM session

May 2026

As the lab begins to take shape, and momentum starts to build, lab meetings are a natural way to stay on top of what everyone is doing. Here's to many more!

Our first lab meeting!

April 23, 2026

As the lab begins to take shape, and momentum starts to build, lab meetings are a natural way to stay on top of what everyone is doing. Here's to many more!

Francis visits UC

April 21, 2026

Francis O'Reilly visited the Department from St Jude Children's Research hospital, and gave an exhilirating seminar on his lab's efforts in in situ crosslinking mass spectrometry

Jill joins the lab

April 17, 2026

Jill is the lab's innagural graduate student, and will take on the structural and biochemical studies of transcription termination complexes. Welcome Jill!

Graham visits UC

February 17, 2026

Graham visited the Department and gave a fantastic seminar on his recent and ongoing work. He also revived a long-standing tradition in personalized candles.

Madeline joins the lab

February 16, 2026

Madeline joins us as the lab's innagural postdoc. She will accelerate our efforts in cryoEM structure determination. Welcome Maddie!

More Shakers!

January 23, 2026

Now we have shakers in the tissue culture room

2025

Shak-er off!

December 12, 2025

We finally have our shakers. Ordered, delivered (11/4), stacked (12/12)!

Habemus FPLC!

November 13, 2025

Our brand new FPLC is installed and online. Bring on the protein preps! What shall we name it?

The Lab Opens!

September 1, 2025

The Structural Dynamics of Transcription Lab officially opens.

Zhenyu joins the lab

Summer 2025

Zhenyu will help get the lab started so that we hit the ground running.