Megan presented her work on PEAK3 at the Biochemical Society meeting on Cell Signaling and Intracellular Trafficking in Cancer Biology: Interplay, Targeting and Therapy, recently published in PNAS. Congrats Megan!

After weeks of planning, the Minor lab and the Jura lab finally got together for a potluck lunch to meet all the new members who recently joined between the labs. Thanks to everyone for the delicious contributions and a wonderful multicultural mix of flavors! Looking forward to all the scientific interactions and fun times ahead!

Congratulations Devan, well deserved!!!

And one more special moment this summer – Erron’s thesis seminar on August 20th. Together with the Deo lab, we celebrated Erron’s PhD and wish him all the best when he heads back to medical school!

We were thrilled to attend Karen’s thesis seminar on July 12 and hear about her exciting journey through grad school. Congratulations on your achievements and best of luck for next steps!!

After exactly five years as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, Chris is leaving to start his exciting new job as a scientist at Astex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, UK. We wish him best of luck at his new position!!!

Congratulations to Chris and Lijun on publication of their paper in which we present the first crystal structure of a HIPK kinase family member, HIPK2, bound to a small molecule kinase inhibitor. Our structure reveals architecture of the entire kinase domain, the inhibitor-bound active site, and of the CMGC insert region, characteristic for this class […]

Together with the Wang lab, our neighbors on the 4th floor of CVRI, we spent July 18th in Sonoma, hiking in the Sugarloaf Ridge State Park and enjoying delicious food and drinks in Landmark Vineyards.