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Events in the Barondeau Lab
New Students
June 2013: We would like to welcome new group members: REU students Elisa James and Rachael Cox.
Upcoming event
May 2013: James and Nick will be presenting their work at the 7th International Conference on Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis and Regulation. Nick was selected to give a talk (see picture).
Graduating student
April 2013: Congrations to Melissa who successfully defended her Master's thesis. Whoop Melissa!
New Students
October 2012: Welcome to the new graduate students in the group: Robert Hoyuela and Deepika Das.
Kudos
Michaella has accepted a postdoctoral position at the FDA that starts in the Fall of 2012. Good luck Michaella!
Kudos
May 2012: Jennifer was awarded the Sharon Dabney Memorial Scholarship from Phi Lambda Upsilon. Congratulations!
Upcoming event
July 2012: James and Nick will be presenting their work at the Gordon Research Conference: Enzymes, Cofactors & Metabolic Pathways in July.
Read moreNew Students
May 2012: We would like to welcome new group members: REU students Lusa Yi and Ryan Lake (both starting May 29th) and incoming chemistry graduate student Robert Hoyuela (starting July 2nd).
Kudos
May 2012: Congratulations to Dr. Barondeau! His promotion to Associate Professor of Chemistry with tenure has been approved by the Board of Regents.
Travel
May/June 2012: D.J. and Shachin will be attending the Bioinorganic Training Workshop at Penn State.
Publication
February 2012: Congratulations to Jennifer for their accepted manuscript in Biochemistry "Effector Role Reversal during Evolution: The Case of Frataxin in Fe–S Cluster Biosynthesis." Biochemistry has chosen to highlight this article on their home page.New Students
October 2011: Welcome to the new graduate students in the group: Shachin Patra and Travis HooperKudos
October 2011: Jennifer has accepted a postdoctoral position with Cathy Drennan at MIT starting next summer. Congratulations Jennifer!Upcoming events
Michaella and Nick will present their work at the 67th Southwest Regional ACS Meeting in November 2011.SWARM
Publication
July 2011: Congratulations to Jennifer and Andrew for their accepted manuscript in Biochemistry "Structure-function analysis of Friedreich's ataxia mutants reveals determinants for frataxin binding and activation of the Fe-S assembly complex."Read MorePublication
June 2011: Congratulations to Chi-Lin and Jennifer for their accepted manuscript in Biochemistry "Friedreich's ataxia variants I154F and W155R diminish frataxin-based activation of the iron-sulfur cluster assembly complex."Read MoreUpcoming events
Jennifer will present her work at the Gordon conference in July 2011. Michaella will present her work at 59th annual ASMS conference in May 2011.Gordon Conference ASMS
Funding
February 2011: Our NIH applications "Structure and mechanism of the human Fe-S cluster assembly complex" scored in the first percentile with a priority score of 11. Funding will likely start in the summer of 2011.Graduating student
January 2011: Congratulations to Chi-Lin who successfully defended his dissertation. Dr. Tsai will start a post-doc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory later in the spring.Funding
December 2010: Our American Heart Association grant "Deciphering normal and aberrant function for clinical variants associated with Fe-S assembly and heart disease" scored a 2.78% and will be funded in January 2011.
Publication
October 2010: Congratulations to Chi-Lin for his accepted manuscript in Biochemistry "Human frataxin is an allosteric switch that activates the Fe-S cluster biosynthetic complex". Biochemistry has chosen to highlight this article on their home page.New Students
Fall 2010: We have welcomed in two new students: Melissa Thorstad and D.J. Martin.Funding
April 2010: Our Robert A. Welch foundation grant " Structure and chemistry of DNA repair enzyme spore photoproduct lyase" was funded for 2 years starting in June 2010.
Publication
March 2010: Congratulations to Jennifer on her co-first author manuscript "The KaiA protein of the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator is modulated by a redox-active cofactor" published in the Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA
We've moved to ILSB
January 2010: We have moved from the Chemistry Building to our space in the newly constructed ILSB. Read more
