Richanne Lamb

Congratulations to graduate students, Melissa Hale, Jana Jenquin, and Carrie Lomelino, on receiving the 2018 Wanda and Richard Boyce Awards for her outstanding graduate research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

A graduate from Drs. Mavis and Robert McKenna's lab in 2012, Bala now works at Syngene International Limited, a contract research organization in Bangalore, India as a principal investigator focusing on protein purification, characterization and structure determination.

Graduate Student Appreciation Week is a chance for the university to give back to our amazing graduate student body for all of the work they do teaching, researching, and serving.

The UF Center for Undergraduate Research sponsored this year’s undergraduate research symposium on Thursday, March 22. Several students working in the labs of our Biochemistry and Molecular Biology faculty participated in this event.

Dr. Marc Malandro, a 1995 UF Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate of Dr. Michael Kilberg's lab, is now the Vice President of Operations at the Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative.

Members of the Agbandje-McKenna lab group co-authored an article, Atomic Resolution Structures of Human Bufaviruses Determined by Cryo-Electron Microscopy, which was published in the January 2018 issue of the Virus journal and featured on the journal cover.

Asparagine synthetasedeficiency (ASD) keeps brain cells from developing and growing normally. It causes children to have small heads and brains, and epilepsy-like seizures. Now Biochemistry and Molecular Biology researchers are using patient cells to learn more about ASD.

Jana, a graduate student in Dr. Andy Berglund’s lab, received a certificate of excellence for her excellent research poster at The Center for NeuroGenetics 3rd annual international Brainstorm Symposium.

The UF COM Celebration of Research is a wonderful opportunity for us to reflect on the strength of our research programs and appreciate the breadth, quality, and merit of the science conducted within the College.

Dr. Michael Kilberg, Dr. Robert McKenna and graduate students, Carrie Lomelino and Jacob Andring, co-authored a review article titled, "Asparagine synthetase: Function, structure, and role in disease."