Swapnil Sonkusare receives the 2022 ASPET Mid Career Award in Cardiovascular Physiology
2/18/2022
Congratulations to Swapnil Sonkusare for receiving the 2022 ASPET Mid Career Award in Cardiovascular Physiology. Dr. Sonkusare joins a distinguished group of award winners who are recognized for their excellence…
Congratulations Pornillos Lab for paper in Science on reconstitution of HIV replication
11/5/2020
There is great news from Owen Pornillos' lab. They published a paper in Science on the Reconstitution and visualization of capsid-dependent replication of HIV transcription. See
Biophysical Society names Dr. Lukas Tamm in their 2021 Class of Fellows
11/5/2020
Dr. Lukas Tamm has been honored as a member of the 2021 Class of Fellows in recognition for his contributions to our understanding of the structural biology and functional biophysics…
Jochen Zimmer’s lab published structure of plant cellulose synthase in Science
7/20/2020
Jochen Zimmer’s lab published structure of plant cellulose synthase in Science. Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer produced on earth. Cellulose synthase is an trimeric integral membrane protein that stiches…
Important paper on COVID-19 spread by Peter Kasson and Lynn Kamerlin getting world news coverage
7/8/2020
Shina C L Kamerlin, Peter M Kasson Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa864, Published: 01 July 202 Newsweek , Forbes , Jerusalem Post, UVa Today: Lack of COVID-19 Lockdown…
We celebrate Mateusz Czub from Wladek Minor’s lab, recently awarded a Wagner fellowship
7/3/2020
Please join us in congratulating Mateusz Czub for earning the Robert R. Wagner Fellowship. In 1997, Bob and Mary Wagner established The Robert R. Wagner Fellowship Fund with the goal…
4/4/2019
In the course of 8 days, Dr. Brant Isakson and his Lab received a lot of great news: —Claire Ruddiman (2nd year Pharm student…
Congratulations! Excellence of Teaching Award for Dr. Barbie Pornillos
8/8/2018
Dr. Barbie Ganser-Pornillos is one of this year’s recipients of the University of Virginia School of Medicine Awards for Excellence in Teaching. Dean David S. Wilkes will recognize Dr. Ganser-Pornillos’…
7/9/2018
Dr. Tamm received his basic training in molecular biosciences at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He spent a year at Cornell University studying microtubules by electron microscopy…
Team led by Wladek Minor, PhD creates guide for the submicroscopic world inside us
5/24/2018
Wladek Minor's group has "established new guidelines for scientists mapping out the body molecule by molecule to help us better understand how our cells use metals such as iron and…
