News

Congratulations to Dr. Abigail Cline, Dr. Aaron Petrey, Dr. Steven Sykes, and Dr. Samuel Justin Polizzi on obtaining their PhDs!

Currently, Dr. Ito is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California San Diego joining the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in April 2013.

Congratulations to undergraduates Katie Hufstetler, Will Saunders, Dillon Davis, and Colby Samuelson-Ruiz for their recent achievements (CURO Summer Fellowship; NSF Travel and Best Poster awards - SERYM 2013).

Read about their discovery of a connection between two different types of cell wall glycans and a specific cell wall protein known as arabinogalactan protein.

The laboratories of Kelley Moremen, Mike Tiemeyer, Lance Wells, Michael Pierce, Will York, and Steve Dalton report, in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, how changes in the expression of enzymes necessary for glycan formation alters the properties of cells