A huge congratulations to Brenda Bass @bbass.bsky.social for her Lifetime Achievement Award from the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social! She is being recognized for her "groundbreaking discovery of A-to-I editing and outstanding contributions to this field."

Congratulations to Adam Hughes for being awarded the 2026 Outstanding Educator Award for Health Sciences Graduate Students for his commitment to creating a culture of exceptional education in the University of Utah Health community!

The Keynote Speaker for #SLAM2026 is Dr. Rutter (@rutterlab.bsky.social) from the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute! Full program slam26.asip.org @uofubiochem.bsky.social #LiverResearch #LiverDisease #LiverCancer

Congratulations to Joe Aruscavage (Bass lab @bbass.bsky.social ) for winning the Outstanding Career Researcher Award from the RNA Society @rnasociety.bsky.social for his exceptional contributions in advancing the field of RNA! www.rnasociety.org/outstanding-...

Happy to share a new preprint exploring the unusual biochemistry of a "weirdly" diverged cytochrome c in malaria parasites that exemplifies a lineage common to many apicomplexan parasites. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Starting the 2026 with excellent news! Congratulations to graduate students Queren Alcantara (@queren-alcantara.bsky.social) and James Carrington for receiving the AHA Predoctoral Fellowship! @ahascience.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social 🔬🧪🌟

Don't miss today's talk by Dr. Shan Zha!

Honored to have one of my immunofluorescence images featured in @nature.com November’s best science images!!! Thank you @nature.com and their photo team (Fred Schwaller & Katie Kavanagh) for the highlight! 🧪🔬👨🏾‍🔬 @rutterlab.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social Check it out! go.nature.com/4pGzlr9

On Thursday Dec 11th Dr. Shan Zha from Columbia University will give a Biochemistry Seminar entitled "From Breaks to Barrier, the Expanded Roles of Ku and its Friends in Primate Evolution." 12pm in HSEB 2600!

Mark Lee @guacamarklee.bsky.social and Keren Hilgendorf @uofubiochem.bsky.social discover that prostaglandin E2 inhibits adipogenesis through the cilia-dependent activation of ROCK2. #JCSciliaSI journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Malaria Parasites are Full of Wildly Spinning Iron Crystals. Scientists Finally Know Why. Fascinating research from @sigalalab.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social w cool implications. New inspiration for nanobots?! And-epic science writing from Sophia Friesen! healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/new...

How do cancer cells use the nutrients to grow and how can that knowledge lead to better care? Gregory Ducker, PhD, studies the metabolism of cancer. @duckerlab.bsky.social aims to uncover new ideas for future therapies & ways to make current treatments even more effective. @uofubiochem.bsky.social

Don't miss today's talk by Dr. Frances Arnold at 4pm!

Join us for next week's James & Kathleen McCloskey Bioscience Endowed lecture by Nobel Laureate Dr. Frances Arnold (CalTech) entitled "Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life." Thurs 10/23 4pm in the Skaggs Auditorium!

Don't miss today's talk by Dr. Derek Applewhite at 12pm!

It was a pleasure to host these speakers for our 2025 #Postdoc Rising Stars event! Great science and terrific symposium. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social

Please join us for the Biochemistry Seminar Series on Thurs Oct 9th at 12pm in HSEB 2600. This week's talk will be given by Dr. Derek Applewhite @applewhitederek.bsky.social, Professor of Biology at Reed College and is titled "The regulation of non-muscle myosin II contractility”

Don't miss the Postdoc Rising Stars Symposium and Keynote address today and tomorrow!

Very excited to welcome these #postdoc speakers to our annual @utah.edu Rising Stars Symposium cohosted by @uofubiochem.bsky.social and Med Chem @uuhsresearch.bsky.social with keynote address by Ryan Watts at Denali

Just a couple days away from the 2025 Postdoc Rising Stars Symposium! Don't miss this series of talks on the cutting edge of Cell Biology, Chemical Biology and Computational & Multiscale Analysis, and a keynote by Ryan Watts (Denali Therapeutics)!

#ASBMB26's keynote speaker is Wesley Sundquist: Co-chair of the department of biochemistry at @uofubiochem.bsky.social, ASBMB fellow and one of Time's 100 most influential people of 2025. Don't miss his speech at ASBMB 2026! ow.ly/SxoY50X454R#ASBMB26's#HIV #StructuralBiology #ProteinDesign

Don't miss today's Biochemistry Seminar by our own Matt Miller on "Getting it Right: How Do Cells Ensure Accurate Chromosome Inheritance?" 12pm in HSEB 2600!

Don't miss today's thesis defense by Ping Guo at 11am!

Don't miss today's talk by Dr. James Olzmann!

We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Postdoctoral Rising Stars Symposium cohosted @uofuhealth.bsky.social by @uofubiochem.bsky.social and MedChem with keynote by Ryan Watts at Denali Therapeutics

Join Ping Guo (English Lab) on Fri Sept 12 from 11am – 12pm at the EIHG Auditorium as she presents her Ph.D. Thesis Defense – From Opioid to Nopioid: Mu-opioid Receptor Pharmacogenomics Cracks the Code of Opioid Resistance.

On Thurs Sept 11, Dr. James Olzmann @olzmannlab.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social will give a talk on "Cellular lipid homeostasis: From lipid droplets to ferroptosis." 12pm in HSEB 2600!

Don't miss today's thesis presentation by Supraja Ranganathan at 12pm!

On Thurs Aug 28th, Supraja Ranganathan (Bass Lab) will defend her thesis entitled "Dynamics of viral replication and innate immune responses in C. elegans." 12pm in EIHG!

I am delighted to share that I have started my lab in the Dept. of Biochemistry @uofubiochem.bsky.social at the University of Utah @utah.edu. My laboratory will study key aspects of protein synthesis and translational control in healthy and diseased states. #RNAsky sinha.biochem.utah.edu

Don't miss today's talk by Dr. Matthew Wohlever at 12pm!

On Weds Aug 13th, Dr. Matthew Wohlever (U. Pittsburgh) will give a Biochemistry Seminar on "Membrane Protein Binding and Phase Separation: A New Paradigm for Understanding Ubiquilin Dysfunction in ALS." 12pm in EEJRMB's Kjeldsberg Conference Room!

We have an Open Rank tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology! Looking for a new colleague interested in making the University of Utah their new home to build a metabolic research program. Please share! @uofunuip.bsky.social

I'm so honored to receive the 2025 Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education. Thank you @ascbiology.bsky.social and I look forward to this year's annual ASCB meeting in Philly!

Don't miss todays' talk by Dr. Danielle Grotjahn @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social!

On Thurs July 31st, Dr. Danielle Grotjahn @nanigrotjahn.bsky.social (Scripps) will give a talk entitled "Lessons from mitochondria on thriving under stress." 12pm in HSEB Alumni Hall!

Biochemists from many different labs will be talking about their research, giving lab tours, and giving demos for the public - don't miss Summer Science Day tomorrow, Saturday July 12th from 10am-4pm!

Almost fifty U of U researchers are giving over 80 demos, lab tours, workshops and talks for the public this Saturday, July 12th! Science-curious? We have something for everyone! 10am-4pm @utah.edu. Schedule and directions here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...

Come join us at the @utah.edu for a Summer Science Day on Saturday, July 12th! It is going to be a lot of fun!!! 🧪 🔬 @rutterlab.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social

One week until Summer Science Day! Everyone is welcome to visit @UofUHealth for lab tours, public-friendly talks, demos, and workshops! Saturday July 12th from 10am-4pm. Check out our action-packed schedule here: gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...

You're trying to fill the summer days. What do we have that might be interesting for you and your kids? How about electron microscopes? Glowing fish?! Pig lungs??!! Come to Summer Science Day at the U on Saturday, July 12. Free and open to the public! gslc.utah.edu/summer-scien...

Stewart, @mpmiller.bsky.social et al. @uofubiochem.bsky.social‬ show that Stu2 displays dynamic localization patterns in the #CellCycle, with different kinetochore and microtubule distributions during distinct phases. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Congrats to Luis Cedeno-Rosario of the Rutter Lab in @utah.edu Utah's Department of Biochemistry for receiving the 2025 Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award from @fredhutch.bsky.social! A well-deserved honor recognizing rising leaders in research. @uofubiochem.bsky.social www.fredhutch.org/en/news/rele...

Another amazing milestone! FDA approval of lenacapavir, the first HIV prevention drug offering 6 months of protection. Based on foundational research by Dr. Wes Sundquist's lab @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff... .

The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah proudly presents Summer Science Day! A free event where the public can meet Researchers from Neurobiology, NUIP, Biochemistry, Cores, and Human Genetics and learn about their wonderful research. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @utah.edu

🎉 Thrilled to be one of the recipients of the 2025 Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award from @fredhutch.bsky.social!!! Super excited to meet the other awardees and share some cool science! 🧪🔬 @rutterlab.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social

Congratulations to lab members Aldo García-Guerrero and Erica Hastings for winning the @uofubiochem.bsky.social Evelyn Bruenger and Marjorie Riches Gunn Awards for Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Research Excellence, respectively! #malaria @uofutahcihd.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social

Don't miss today's defense by Deirdre Mack!

On Thursday June 12th, Deirdre Mack will defend her thesis entitled "Folding Interrupted: Defective Folding of Mutant Gβ5 by the CCT Chaperone Complex." EIHG Auditorium at 1pm!

Listen to @jiwasa.bsky.social @learngenetics.bsky.social @uofubiochem.bsky.social and Tim Lee @nhmu.bsky.social @utah.edu on @scifri.bsky.social talk about the forms #SciComm can take - why, how, impact How 'Science Interpreters' Make Hidden Science Visible www.sciencefriday.com/articles/sci...