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The Szpara Lab has collaborated with The University of Turku to research comparison of HSV-1 strains circulating in Finland demonstrates the uncoupling of whole-genome relatedness and phenotypic outcomes of viral infection

The Boal group, and the Balskus lab (Harvard University) have solved the first structure of an iron-dependent N-N bond-forming enzyme, SznF.

The Zhang Lab, has developed a new method, using fluorescence, to detect potentially disease-causing forms of proteins as they unravel due to stress or mutations.

Grace Usher selected for the Student Research Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.

Student Highlights

Grace Usher selected for the Student Research Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.

Congratulations to Frank Pugh’s Undergraduate student researchers on receiving Eberly College of Science’s Office of Science Engagement award!

Victoria Bonnell awarded Best Poster Award at the XXIX International Molecular Parasitology Meeting

Erin McCarthy selected as the recipient of the2018 Richard L. and Norma L. McCarl Scholarship

Undergraduate Researcher, Anna Brogan, takes part in Eberly College of Science Poster Exhibition

News and Events

The Pennsylvania State University was selected by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation as 1 of 12 institutions to receive a 2019 Beckman Scholars Program Award.

BMB SEMINAR SERIES

March 18, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. 108 Wartik Laboratory: “Achieving a Predictive Understanding of Antimicrobial Stress and Resistance Physiologies,” Daniel J. Dwyer, University of Maryland.

March 20, 2019 at 4:00 p.m., 110 Wartik Laboratory: “From Single Molecule to Organism: Super-resolved Insights into Virus Life Cycle,” Qian Vivian Liu, University of British Columbia.

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