Our dear friend and Director of the Biomolecular and Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Facility at UCSD, Dr. Majid Ghassemian, visited us in January for finalizing the installation of the QSTAR Elite Mass Spectrometer and training of our research group. After two weeks of setting up and training, we collected the first Read more…
Our postdoctoral superstar, Maira Rivera, successfully applied for a PROLAB (Promoting Research Opportunities for Latin American Biochemists) fellowship, funded by ASBMB, IUBMB and PABMB. She will be visiting the laboratory of our long-standing collaborator and friend Elizabeth A. Komives at UCSD, to learn how to use hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry Read more…
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Dr. Frances H. Arnold from Caltech University, honored us by meeting with our research group and visiting our Institution in the context of her participation in the 2020 Congreso Futuro conference. During her visit to our university, Frances met with all members of our team and Read more…
Dr. Hugo Sanabria (Associate Professor, Clemson University) visited us last week in the context of an ongoing collaboration between our labs to characterize the domain swapping mechanism of the human transcription factor FoxP. In this collaboration, our laboratory contributes with the expertise in using molecular dynamics and classic biophysical strategies Read more…
Our team member Paula has recently left to Germany! She will be working on the characterization of Antarctic PET-degrading enzymes at the University of Leipzig under the supervision of Dr. Wolfgang Zimmermann until October 2019. Good luck, Pau!