Author: Mark Foster

Weicheng defended an ingenious proposal rooted in statistical thermodynamics of allosteric interactions and applications in synthetic biology. Congratulations!

“… inspired by Melody “Pepsi” Holmquist, a gifted, energetic Ohio State biochemistry graduate student … (Ohio State became) one of only a few universities to engage deaf students in an REU program. See details here.

Yay Xiao! (Hěn hǎo!)

Conformational and chemical selection by a trans-acting editing domain. Danhart EM, Bakhtina M, Cantara WA, Kuzmishin AB, Ma X, Sanford BL, Košutić M, Goto Y, Suga H, Nakanishi K, Micura R, Foster MP, Musier-Forsyth K. Proc Natl Acad Sci U

Congratulations Eric! Starting in August, Eric will be working full time as an Instructor at the CLSE. Eric autographs the traditional bottle

Hello, I’ve noticed a few common ‘annoyances’ that everyone tends to deal with when processing nmr data in one way or another and I thought I’d offer a few solutions: 1) Getting started with nmrPipe/nmrDraw: Converting data in Topspin Learning

This new NIH R01 is a collaborative grant that funds our research to understand the mechanisms of allosteric regulation of RNA binding by oligomeric proteins, using the undecameric trp RNA binding attenuation protein (TRAP) as a model system. In addition,

Mark was one of the keynote speakers at the Second Molecular Biophysics Symposium of the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech. https://www.bi.vt.edu/molecular-biophysics-symposium

Elihu C. Ihms, Ian R. Kleckner, Paul Gollnick, Mark P. Foster, “Mechanistic models fit to variable temperature calorimetric data provide insights into cooperativity” Biophysical Journal 112 ( 7) 2017,  1328–1338 https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1UsgL_9FM4eH5 We use a nearest-neighbor formalism to generate a simplified