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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.

The Szpara Lab, has teamed up with researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Alabama at Birmingham to study genotypic and phenotypic diversity within the neonatal HSV-2 population.

Dr. Scott Lindner leads research team in search of new weapon in the fight agains malaria

Pugh Lab Undergraduate students receive Eberly College of Science’s Office of Science Engagement award

Student Highlights

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.

Nicholas Aksu, a BMB student and Undergraduate Researcher, takes part in 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

February 18, 2019 - "Allosteric Mechanisms Driving the Evolution of Specificity in Steroid Receptors" presented by C. Denise Okafor from Emory University School of Medicine. The seminar is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. in 108 Wartik Laboratory.

February 21, 2019 - The BMMB Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Nathan Wasilko and his research on “Sulfur incorporation during growth by the symbiotic bacterium Vibrio fischeri." The presentation is scheduled for 12:15 p.m. in 105 Osmond Lab.

DEPARTMENTAL FACULTY SEARCH

Tenure-track Assistant, Associate or Full Professor appointment