Awards
- Dr. Ottesen was selected for the 2017 Honors Faculty Service Award, which recognizes excellence in enhancing the quality of education for honors students in Arts & Sciences at OSU.
- Congratulations to Dr. Ruixuan Ryan Yu for defending his thesis, “Hybrid-Phase Native Chemical Ligation Approaches to Overcome the Limitations of Protein Total Synthesis” on July 6, 2016.
- Congrats to Mitch Weeman, who earned his BS in Biology in SP2016. Good luck in med school!
- Our recent OBC article has been selected as a “2016 Hot Article” by the journal, and Ryan’s artistic rendering of nucleosome synthesis made the cover. Congrats again!
- CJ Howard was awarded an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship by the OSU Alumni Association. Congratulations, CJ!
- CJ Howard was awarded a Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Burrell Travel Award to attend the Gordon Research Conference in Biorganic Chemistry in June, 2015.
- Angela Harrison was awarded the 2015 Irene Rosenfeld Scientific Achievement Award by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Congratulations, Angela!
- Bryan Lent was awarded a second year of fellowship in the Chemistry-Biology Interface Program. Congratulations, Bryan!
- Congratulations to Angela Harrison for defending her Honors Research Thesis for graduation in Spring 2015!
- Due to technical issues, awards for 2012-2014 are not hosted here.
- Congratulations to Dr. John Shimko for defending his PhD thesis!
- John Shimko was a 2nd Place Winner in the Young Investigator Research Competititon at the 22nd American Peptide Society Symposium in San Diego.
- John Shimko was awarded an APS Travel Grant and a Department of Biochemistry Burrell Travel Award to attend the 22nd American Peptide Society Symposium in San Diego, June 2011.
- Christina Knight won a Department of Biochemistry SURP award to support her research in summer 2011.
- Mridula Manohar defended her thesis titled “Chemically Modified Histone H3 to Study Acetylation at the Nucleosome Dyad” and was awarded her M.S. degree in 2009. Mridula is now a researcher at Proctor & Gamble.
- Michelle Ferdinand defended her Honors Research Thesis in May 2009.
- Jennifer Ottesen was awarded an NSF CAREER award for Chemical Tools to Probe Histone Modifications in the Nucleosome Core.
- Michelle Ferdinand won 2nd place in the Biological Sciences at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum in 2009. Michelle also won an Outstanding Poster Award in the 2009 Biological Mathematical Physical Sciences Undergraduate Research Forum.
- Christopher Smith won a Department of Biochemistry SURP award to support his research in summer 2009.
- John Shimko won 2nd Place in the Hayes Graduate Research Forum Poster Competition.
- Jennifer Ottesen and Michael Poirier were awarded an NIH R01 grant to study histone H3 modifications in the DNA-histone interface of the nucleosome.
- Jennifer Ottesen was awarded an American Cancer Society Seed Grant through the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center IRG to study histone phosphorylation in chromatin remodeling.
- Jennifer Ottesen was awarded the 2008 Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Research Mentoring
- Michelle Ferdinand and Jon Picking each won a Department of Biochemistry SURP award to support her research in summer 2008.
- Mridula Manohar placed 4th in Biological Sciences at the 2008 Denman Research Forum
- John Shimko was awarded the 2007 Dean’s Award for Excellence as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for his work in Biochemistry 613, 614, and 521.
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News
- Welcome to Aaron, Rosalyn, and Allison, our new undergraduate research team members! Let’s make this an educational and productive semester – but most of all, fun with protein chemistry.
- We’ve been poor at passing along news this semester, but belatedly – congrats Xiaoyu and Ziyong for proceeding to Candidacy! It’s a long journey to your thesis, but this is an important milestone. Keep up the excellent work.
- Ziyong presented his research developing improved methods for convergent solid phase ligation of large proteins at the CBC/Dow Chemical graduate poster forum.
- CJ gave an excellent poster presentation at the 2017 IGP Symposium on May 23.
- The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry wrote up a nice article about Dr. Ottesen’s recent award!
- Rachel gave an excellent presentation at the 2017 Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Forum. Congrats, Rachel, and have a great summer!
- Welcome to Rachel Graf, who will be carrying out her Biochem 2998H undergraduate research experience with our lab this spring!
- Welcome to Xiaoyu Zhang and Elijah Bodey, who joined our laboratory from the Biological Chemistry graduate program.
- Welcome to Sarah Rundell (Chemistry) who will be rotating with us this summer.
- Congratulations to Ryan, Santosh, Kurt, and Mallory for their recent article developing hybrid ligation strategies for H4 and CENP-A, published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry!
- Check out our article in eLife in collaboration with the Tyler, Poirier, and Schumaker groups; identification at long last of Aurora-A kinase and a potential cellular role for phosphorylation of H3-T118. Very exciting!
- Welcome Caroline Bashour, joining our laboratory through the Early Experience in Biochemistry Research program.
- Welcome to Ziyong Hong, who joined our laboratory through the Biological Chemistry graduate program.
- Congrats to Sarah for her contributions in collaboration with the Parthun, Fondufe-Mittendorf, and Poirier groups to our article on the interplay between core histone modifications and linker histones, newly accepted at Nature Communications!
- Ryan Yu presented his work at the 2015 Evans Graduate Symposium.
- CJ Howard presented his work at the 2015 Gordon Research Conference in Bioorganic Chemistry.
- Welcome to our 2015 Rotation Students from the Chemistry Graduate Program and the Ohio State Biochemistry Program!
- Congratulations to Dula for our article on nucleosome dyad acetylation in chromatin remodeling accepted at long last in collaboration with the Luger, Poirier, and Bartholomew laboratories in MCB. Those are some beautiful structures.
- Congratulations to Sarah and John our article in collaboration with the Luger and Poirier laboratories accepted in JBC!
- CJ Howard presented at poster at the Buckeye Cell Biology meeting in April 2015.
- CJ Howard and Ryan Yu presented posters at the 2015 Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Symposium.
- Angela Harrison presented a poster at the 2015 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Congrats, Angela!
- Congratulations to Mallory for her poster in the 2015 Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Forum.
- Congratulations to CJ, Ryan, Miranda, and John for our article titled “Chemical and Biological Tools for the Preparation of Modified Histone Proteins” in Top. Curr. Chem.
- Due to technical issues, news for 2012-2014 is not hosted here.
- Dr. John Shimko has been co-appointed to the teaching staff of the Department of Biochemistry and as a postdoctoral researcher in the Ottesen Laboratory. We look forward to working with him in both capacities!
- Congrats to Santosh, CJ, and John for our article in press at ChemBioChem
- Congratulations John, Michelle, and Dula in collaboration with the Fishel and Poirier laboratories for our PNAS article titled “Histone fold modifications control nucleosome unwrapping and disassembly”.
- Dr. Ottesen presented a seminar in the Post-Translational Modifications session at the 22nd APS Symposium in San Diego, June 26, 2011
- Dr. Santosh Mahto and John Shimko each presented a poster at the 22nd APS Symposium in San Diego, June 2011.
- Research assistant CJ Howard will be joining the OSBP Graduate Program in Autumn 2011.
- OSBP graduate student Sarah Dreher joined the Ottesen Laboratory in Spring 2011.
- OSBP graduate student Ruixuan (Ryan) Yu joined the Ottesen Laboratory in Spring 2011.
- Our article “Phosphorylation of histone H3(T118) alters nucleosome dynamics and remodeling”, in collaboration with the Bartholomew, Fishel, and Poirier laboratories, was published in Nucleic Acids Research.
- Our article “Preparation of Fully Synthetic Histone H3 Reveals that Acetyl-Lysine 56 Facilitates Protein Binding Within Nucleosomes” in collaboration with the Poirier laboratory was published in JMB.
- Christina Knight joined our laboratory for H201 in Spring 2011, and will continue as a SURP awardee in summer 2011.
- Dr. Ottesen presented a seminar in the “Peptides and Peptidomimetics” session of the Pacifichem 2010 meeting in Honolulu, HI, December 2010.
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