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January 2017: OSU Undergrad Devante Potter joins the lab. Devante comes to us from Terra State Community College (Freemont, OH) and joined the lab after taking the department’s Early Research Seminar class (Biochem 2900H). Devante is majoring in Microbiology, with

January 2017 — Chemistry PhD Program student Kye Stakowski  joins the Foster Lab. Kye obtained a BS in Chemistry from Purdue University,  where he performed undergraduate research to understand the chemistry and molecular biology of sex determination in model eukaryotic

Postdoctoral Positions in NMR Structural Biology, Columbus Ohio. Two NIH-funded postdoctoral positions are available immediately (starting January 2017) for NMR studies of protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions. Funded projects involve characterizing interactions between eukaryotic transcription factors and their host and

On an action-packed Novermber 28, Vibhuti and Aparna each passed their PhD candidacy exams — congratulations!

Brandon Crowe, BS Magna Cum Laude, defends his thesis in the Ohio State Biochemistry Program, “Protein-Protein and Protein-Nucleic Acids Interactions Important for Catalytic Activity and Recruitment of Viral Genomes to Host Chromatin”, to earn a PhD from the Ohio State

Graduate students Matt Morrow (Chemistry) and Elakkiya Tamilselvan (Biophysics) begin their rotations in the Foster Lab. Welcome!

Problem: I am experiencing a strange problem with generating symmetry mates in PyMOL for the coordinate file 1WAP: specifically, the generated molecules clash with each other. I tried using either the menus Action > generate > symmetry mates …. ,

Antonia Presents Her Poster at the 2016 Summer REU Symposium

On 5/26, Antonia Duran, a Biochemistry student at the University of New Mexico, arrived for a 10-week NSF-funded research experiences for undergraduates (REU) program. Antonia will be working with the Foster and Bird groups on mechanisms of zinc sensing and