News

July 15, 2025
New postdoc Nikita Dewani joins us today after completing her Ph.D. studies at the Max Delbruck Center. She will work on cancer microproteins. Welcome Nikita!
June 13, 2025
Georgina Dabdoub has been awarded an NSF GRFP! Her NSF-funded project will help us understand how N-terminal extensions and alternative splicing diversify the dark proteome,...
June 13, 2025
Georgina, Betel and Natalia all passed their qualifying exams with flying colors and are now officially Ph.D. candidates. Congratulations!
May 1, 2025
Christine DeRosa joins us as a new Ph.D. student. She’ll bring her amazing expertise in proteomics to bear on new methods for microprotein proteomics and clinical...
August 23, 2024
Betel Erkalo received a T. F. Cooke Award for teaching excellence from the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations!
May 13, 2024
Ashleigh Purvis and Nadiya Jaunbocus passed their qualifying exams this month! Congratulations! 
April 1, 2024
Welcome to our newest members, first-year grad students Betel Erkalo, Georgina Dabdoub and Natalia Bertolotti! We are so thrilled that you are part of the team and can’...
November 1, 2023
Thanks to ACS Chemical Biology and the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry for recognizing us with a 2024 ACS Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award! Every member of the...
September 19, 2023
Out today at Cell Reports, Yanran, Xiongwen, Haomiao and Kevin describe EMBOW, an unannotated microprotein that binds to WDR5 with far-reaching cellular consequences. The...
August 30, 2023
Nadiya Jaunbocus was selected to receive a Charlotte Fitch Roberts Research Fellowship Award by the Chemistry Department to support her projects to discover and engineer...