Emory Department of Biochemistry

Please join us for a seminar on Thursday,
October 23, 2025 by David S. Yu, MD, PhD. Topic: "Understanding and Exploiting the DNA Damage Response for Cancer Therapy".

Please join us for a seminar on Thursday,
September 18, 2025 by Raquel Lieberman, PhD. Topic: "How a protein's structure spells the
difference between health and disease: the
case of glaucoma-associated myocilin".

Please join us for a seminar on Thursday,
July 24, 2025 by David Garcia, PhD. Topic: "Here, There, and Everywhere: tRNA Modifications and the Enzymes That Make Them".

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Please join us for a seminar on Thursday,
May 1, 2025 by Mariana Pehar, PhD. Topic: "A Role for FABP7 Alzheimers Disease Pathology".

ARTDTP Symposium 2025:

May 2025 GA RNA Salon:

Please join us for a seminar on Thursday,
April 17, 2025 by Guillaume Chanfreau, PhD. Topic: "Novel insights into yeast gene expression mechanisms using Oxford Nanopore Long reads RNA sequencing".

Shashank Shekhar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physics, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry at Emory University, was named “Cell Scientist to Watch” by the Journal of Cell Science. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Dr. Eric Sundberg, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry, and Dr. Diego Sastre, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, published a paper, "Potent efficacy of an IgG-specific endoglycosidase against IgG-mediated pathologies, " in Cell, October 2024. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Structures of complete HIV-1 TAR RNA portray a dynamic platform poised for protein binding and structural remodeling - PubMed The HIV-1 TAR RNA plays key roles in viral genome architecture, transcription and replication. Previous structural analyses focused on its upper stem loop, which has served as a paradigm to study RNA ...

New publication in the Bou-Nader Lab:
"Structures of complete HIV-1 TAR RNA portray a dynamic platform poised for protein binding and structural remodeling," in Nature Communications.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40050622/

Purification and Analysis of eIF2α Phosphorylation by Stress-Activated Protein Kinase Gcn2 from S. cerevisiae - PubMed Gcn2 is the sole eIF2α kinase in budding yeast, responsible for inhibiting general translation while inducing translation of transcriptional activator Gcn4, a master regulator of amino acid biosynthes...

New publication in the Bou-Nader Lab:
"Purification and Analysis of eIF2α Phosphorylation by Stress-Activated Protein Kinase Gcn2 from S. cerevisiae," in Methods in Molecular Biology. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39992511/

Congratulations to the Bou-Nader:

Grant: "Molecular basis of R-loop mediated HIV integration," from Gilead Research Scholars.
researchscholars.gilead.com/hiv_us/alumn...

Mahmut Demirturk, MD, Research Scholar in the Avci Lab, is the recipient of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation for his grant, "Immume Modulation by Macrophage Galactose C-Type Lectin Alleviate Murine Model of Colitis".

Please join us for a seminar on Thursday,
April 3, 2025 by Natalie Krahn, PhD. Topic: "Selenocysteine-incorporating tRNA systems: A gateway to cutting-edge biotechnologies".

Please join us for a seminar on Thursday, March 13, 2025 by Jeffrey Kieft, PhD. Topic: "A Structured but Dynamic Viral RNA Element that Reboots the Robisome."

Please join us Thursday, February 27, for a special seminar by Pu-Ting Dong, PhD. Topic: "Probing life with photons: How optical imaging uncovers cellular machineries of biological systems".

Please join us Thursday, February 13, for a special seminar by Kimberly Tsui, PhD. Topic: "Deciphering the Glyco-Code: Sugar-Coating a Cell".

Please join us Monday, February 10, for a special seminar by Yu-Chen Yen, PhD. Topic: "Decoding GPCR Signaling: Structural Adventures in Adenylyl Cyclase 5 (AC5) and Atypical Chemokine Receptor 3 (ACKR3)".

Please join us Thursday, January 30, for a special seminar by William "Dylan" Hale, PhD. Topic: Structural Tuning of Synaptic Transmission".