• Neil Passes Candidacy!

    Neil Passes Candidacy!

    Congratulations to Neil on passing his candidacy exam and becoming the first new PhD candidate of the lab! He’s choosing to celebrate by jumping right back into his lab work, but of course the cake comes first.

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  • James Alltop

    James Alltop

    James has joined OSU as a graduate student in the Ohio State Biochemistry Program (OSBP). He obtained his bachelor’s degree from the College of Wooster, where he majored in both Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BCMB) and English (English!). At Wooster, he worked with Dr. Ryan Arvidson, studying the molecular mechanism behind the sting of the […]

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  • Pia Delouri

    Pia Delouri

    Pia is an undergraduate Molecular Genetics student at Ohio State. She has previously participated in research regarding immunology, neuroscience, as well as cancer biology; and is now involved in cell signaling research to better understand how different mutations within IRE1 can affect its function. Outside of the lab, Pia can most often be found hiking, […]

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  • Adalyn Brown

    Adalyn Brown

    Adalyn earned her Bachelor’s in Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology at Arizona State University before coming to OSU to work on her PhD in Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology. During her undergrad, Adalyn worked on studying the molecular mechanisms of evolution. Now, she has begun her journey, utilizing techniques such as single-molecule imaging to directly measure the oligomerization of […]

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  • Adalyn and James Join the Lab!

    Adalyn and James Join the Lab!

    The more the merrier, welcome to the lab! Adalyn Brown is an MCDB Graduate student planning to study signaling mechanisms of plasma membrane receptors, and James Alltop is an OSBP graduate student planning to tackle the challenges of studying oligomeric transitions of highly abundant proteins inside living cells.

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  • First Lab Conference: Biophysical Society!

    First Lab Conference: Biophysical Society!

    Vlad, Neil, and Jacob went to the Biophysical Society meeting in Philadelphia, the first conference trip for the lab! Neil and Vlad both presented their first posters for the lab, and they all enjoyed the amazing science (and the great Philly food!). Bonus photo: Vlad doesn’t like to take photos in front of posters…

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  • Pia joins the lab!

    Pia joins the lab!

    The lab is happy to welcome Pia Delouri! She is a Molecular Genetics undergraduate student here to help out and learn about cell culture and cloning methods.

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  • Daisy Alvarado

    Daisy Alvarado

    Daisy came to OSU as a graduate student in the Biophysics Program with a bachelor’s in chemistry from St. John’s University. She has dabbled in research from computational biophysics to studying the structure and biochemistry of Protocadherins. She is interested in using biophysical techniques to investigate the activation of plasma membrane receptors through their oligomerization. […]

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  • Daisy joins the lab!

    Daisy joins the lab!

    We are all super excited to welcome Daisy Alvarado, a Biophysics graduate student, to the group! Daisy will be studying the regulation of plasma membrane receptors by oligomerization.

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  • Group meetings are growing…

    Group meetings are growing…

    With the arrival of new rotation students, the joint Belyy-Wilburn lab meetings are getting more and more exciting… We’re going to need a bigger room!

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