BMB Blog

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Join us to learn about the biochemistry of snake venoms, and how they might be used to treat a variety of human diseases!

For Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month, we are featuring the work of Dr. Paul Thompson in our department. The goal of his research is to develop drugs to inhibit a family of proteins called PAD's that play a major role in the pathology of many different autoimmune diseases.

Happy Hippo Day! The Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department is celebrating by highlighting the work from one of our labs that studies Hippo signaling. No, not the animal, but the cellular signaling pathway that controls cell fate and organ size! Dr. Dan McCollum's lab studies how cells sense and process information from physical forces around them.

#newscience alert! Several groups in our department collaborated to characterize coronavirus proteases and compounds that could be used to inhibit them to prevent future outbreaks. In this special Valentine's Day post, you'll find highlights from these two publications and beautiful representations of a coronavirus protease that looks like a heart. We love biochemistry!