We would like to congratulate Dr. Mueller whose work on understanding the structure and function of mitochondrial ATP synthase was honored with the Morris L. Parker Award. Dr. Choe recently received a Basic Science Award from the American Cancer Society, Illinois Division for his structural studies on glucose transporters. Dr. Correll was promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure and his recent Journal of Molecular Biology paper on the mechanism of RNA chaperones was recommended by the Faculty of 1000.The two most recent publications by our chair, Dr. Kaplan were each honored with a journal cover figure (below).
We applaud the three new Ph.D. graduates from our department during the last year: Dr. Hrishikesh Mehta was mentored by Dr. Neet, Dr. Vijay Pagadala was mentored by Dr. Mueller and Dr. Sreevidya Remani was mentored by Dr. Kaplan. These departing students are passing the torch to two new graduate students that we would like to welcome to BMB. These are Xin Liu who joined Dr.Correll’s lab and Kristy Shanahan who joined Dr. Mueller’s lab.