Don't miss today's talk about "ER Structure and Dynamics in Health and Disease" by Dr. Gia Voeltz (U Colorado, Boulder and HHMI), this year's Pace Endowed Distinguished Lecturer! Today, April 20th 4pm in the EIHG 1st Floor Auditorium.
Join us on Thurs April 23rd for Dr. Christian Metallo's (Salk Institute) talk about "Tracing and modeling sphingolipid homeostasis to understand disease physiology" as part of the Biochemistry Seminar Series. 12pm HSEB 1730.
Join Bo Price (Adam Hughes Lab) as he presents his Ph.D. Thesis Defense - “How Cells Remodel Mitochondria During Metabolic Transitions: Understanding the Role of Mitochondrial-Derived Compartments (MDCs)” on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, from 9:00 to 10:30a.m. in the EIHG auditorium.
Don't miss today's seminar by Dr. Holly Ingraham!
On Thurs April 9th, Dr. Holly Ingraham (UCSF) will give a talk about "Adaptive responses in the female physiology and why they matter for women's health" as part of the Biochemistry seminar series! 12pm, HSEB 1730
Thrilled to share a new collaborative preprint, joint with Sean Prigge @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social, on the apicoplast ACP in #malaria parasites. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social @parasitesrule.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Congratulations to Chris Hill for being named a 2025 AAAS Fellow, one of the highest honors in science! He was elected for his "distinguished contributions to the field of structural biology and exemplary leadership within the scientific community." healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/new...
Don't miss today's talk by Bin Wu!
Join us for tomorrow's Biochemistry Seminar by Bin Wu (Johns Hopkins) who will be talking about "Ribosomes under Surveillance: Single-Molecule Imaging of Bursts, Collisions, and Modifications on mRNAs." Thurs Mar 26th at 12pm, HSEB 2600/Alumni Hall!
Only one day remaining to support the Biochemistry Translation Advancement fund. We welcome donations of any amount! Help our researchers turn their fundamental research discoveries into useful therapeutics. www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...
Support our Giving Day campaign for the Biochem Translation Advancement Fund. This fund will support labs - like the Liu lab, which is developing CRISPR technology to target disease-causing cells. www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...
Giving Day is here! Help labs like the Safavi lab bridge the gap between basic research discoveries and therapies. The Safavi lab is studying metabolism-altering peptides from poisonous frogs. www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...
Image of a small toxin-producing frog
Microscopy image showing cells undergoing apoptosis (cell death)
Giving Day starts tomorrow! The Biochemistry Advancement Fund seeks to help bridge the gap between discovery and application. Help the Liu lab create tools for targeted cell death & the Safavi lab discover therapeutic peptide-based toxins! www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...
Don't miss Kevin Chui's thesis defense today at 9:30am!
Don't miss today's thesis defense by Yuan-En Sun!
Don't miss today's thesis defense by Braden Fallon at 9:30am!
On Weds March 18th, Kevin Chui (Hughes lab) will give his thesis talk entitled "A Mean Old Acid: How do cells protect against excess amino acids?" EIHG Auditorium at 9:30am!
Don't miss Yuan-En Sun's (English lab @justingenglish.bsky.social) thesis defense entitled "β2-adrenergic receptor: friend or foe of the heart" on Tues March 17th at 9am in the Genetics Auditorium!
Happy to announce a new review article by MD/PhD student Kade Loveridge on iron metabolism in #malaria #parasites. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social @parasitesrule.org journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
On Monday March 16th at 9:30am, Braden Fallon (English lab @justingenglish.bsky.social ) will defend his thesis entitled "From Clot to Not: PAR1 harnesses endogenous functional selectivity to shape biological outcomes." HSEB 4100B. Don't miss it!
Congratulations to Jared Rutter
@rutterlab.bsky.social who was recently named a 2026 Fellow of ASBMB @asbmb.bsky.social ! www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
A huge congratulations to Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social for her Lifetime Achievement Award from the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social! She is being recognized for her "groundbreaking discovery of A-to-I editing and outstanding contributions to this field."
Congratulations to Adam Hughes for being awarded the 2026 Outstanding Educator Award for Health Sciences Graduate Students for his commitment to creating a culture of exceptional education in the University of Utah Health community!
The Keynote Speaker for #SLAM2026 is Dr. Rutter (@rutterlab.bsky.social) from the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute! Full program slam26.asip.org
@uofubiochem.bsky.social #LiverResearch #LiverDisease #LiverCancer
Congratulations to Joe Aruscavage (Bass lab @bbass.bsky.social ) for winning the Outstanding Career Researcher Award from the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social for his exceptional contributions in advancing the field of RNA!
www.rnasociety.org/outstanding-...
Happy to share a new preprint exploring the unusual biochemistry of a "weirdly" diverged cytochrome c in malaria parasites that exemplifies a lineage common to many apicomplexan parasites. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Starting the 2026 with excellent news! Congratulations to graduate students Queren Alcantara (@queren-alcantara.bsky.social) and James Carrington for receiving the AHA Predoctoral Fellowship! @ahascience.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social 🔬🧪🌟
Don't miss today's talk by Dr. Shan Zha!
Honored to have one of my immunofluorescence images featured in @nature.com November’s best science images!!! Thank you @nature.com and their photo team (Fred Schwaller & Katie Kavanagh) for the highlight! 🧪🔬👨🏾🔬 @rutterlab.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social
Check it out! go.nature.com/4pGzlr9
On Thursday Dec 11th Dr. Shan Zha from Columbia University will give a Biochemistry Seminar entitled "From Breaks to Barrier, the Expanded Roles of Ku and its Friends in Primate Evolution." 12pm in HSEB 2600!