Purdue Structural and Comp. Biology & Biophysics

Research, Seminars and all the exciting happenings from the structural / computational biologists and biophysicists at Purdue University.

[Purdue Institute for Cancer Research @PUCancerInst]

🚨 NEWS: The Purdue Institute for Cancer Research has secured $9.4M in renewal of its National Cancer Institute (@theNCI) Cancer Center Support Grant.

The award extends nearly five decades of NCI designation and positions PICR to reach 50 consecutive years of recognition in 2028.

One of only 8 NCI-designated Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers nationwide. The only one in Indiana. https://t.co/ml1ktcN1nA

[Purdue Structural and Comp. Biology & Biophysics @PurdueSCBB]

The Hitchhiker’s guide structure biology symposium coming next week! Lots of excellent talks and workshops including a keynote talk by Prof Wah Chiu. Register and join us!! https://t.co/p7f9AXrALJ

[Kihara Laboratory @kiharalab]

🚀 New paper in J Cheminformatics!
"PL-PatchSurfer3: improved str-based virtual screening using 3D Zernike descriptors".

Even in the deep learning era, this surface-based approach competes with modern DL methods, especially on apo & AlphaFold structures.
https://t.co/oMqUK36urR

[Purdue Structural and Comp. Biology & Biophysics @PurdueSCBB]

We have the annual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Biomolecular Galaxy Symposium on June 5-6. Register now and present your research! https://t.co/p7f9AXrALJ

[Kihara Laboratory @kiharalab]

We will host a ~30 min webinar introducing EM-server for cryo-EM structure modeling on May 6 (Wed) 12:30pm (Eastern Time). Will introduce DAQ-Score plugin & CryoZeta.
EM-Server: https://t.co/zCv7L2LFcI
Registration link: https://t.co/xx9H6Q9d0D
Hope to see you there!

[Purdue Biological Sciences @PurdueBiolSci]

Could YOUR post be the lucky one? The unit mentioned in the 50th original post on X from 6pm-7pm using #PurdueDayOfGiving wins $250 in bonus funds for us! Post a shoutout to #PurdueBio and help us hit that magic number! You can also give here: https://t.co/xVGBAO6MFT.

[Purdue Institute for Cancer Research @PUCancerInst]

🐾 Cancer research helps patients of every kind.
Your gift today supports discoveries that improve outcomes for both pets and people. Donate to the @PUCancerInst for #PurdueDayofGiving.

https://t.co/kRQT7F5P7W
#PurdueCancerResearch

[Kihara Laboratory @kiharalab]

New collaboration paper with Bou-Abdallah lab just released! Multivalent recognition of ferritin by full-length NCOA4 enables robust ferritinophagy, Srivastava, @GTerashi et al., Protein Science
https://t.co/LaALPOaxfm

[Dr. David Sanders @DavidSandersRep]

@Nature “I really feel as if the administration is engaged in reverse alchemy, and it’s turning America’s scientific gold into lead,” says David Sanders, a sleuth and biologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
https://t.co/pYGDlgKkzw

[Patricia L. Clark @ndbiochemist]

Record number of posters (65!) at this year’s Midwest Conference on Protein Folding, Assemblies & Molecular Motions — our 19th meeting!
https://t.co/V6qomX9hWd

[Kihara Laboratory @kiharalab]

DAQ plugin for ChimeraX has now a new look! A real-time structure validation for cryo-EM. https://t.co/q98zmpLoLq

[Purdue Structural and Comp. Biology & Biophysics @PurdueSCBB]

Congratulations Prof Leifu Chang!!

[Purdue Biological Sciences @PurdueBiolSci]

Congratulations to Leifu Chang, professor with @PurdueBiolSci, for earning a @PurdueScience Faculty Research Award! #boilerup https://t.co/0L3QtVjRR9

[Purdue Biological Sciences @PurdueBiolSci]

Matt Olson and Seema Mattoo have received the 2026 Chiscon Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching.

Their innovative, research-focused teaching is helping redefine the student experience in Biological Sciences.

Read more: https://t.co/LhzYnjEpN5

[Purdue Institute for Cancer Research @PUCancerInst]

Boilermakers like you are part of the momentum driving cancer research at Purdue.
Join us for #PurdueDayOfGiving one week from today on April 29th! Learn more at https://t.co/A3NbCsGsfh.
#PurdueCancerResearch

[Purdue Biological Sciences @PurdueBiolSci]

A shoutout of congratulations to the @PurdueBiolSci faculty that received promotions and tenure recently from the Purdue Board of Trustees. https://t.co/2kUDGtoCCH
Associate Profs:
Brittany Allen-Petersen
Jason Hanna

Full Prof:
Leifu Chang
Alexander Chubykin
Catherine Searle

[Anne Carpenter, PhD @DrAnneCarpenter]

I'm moving to Purdue University as a tenured professor this summer! Excited to hire postdocs there and get a lab up and running with @wshenrx as co-lead.

More details: https://t.co/m2Ow85fEOd

[Kihara Laboratory @kiharalab]

We have a postdoc opening. Please check
https://t.co/uZSf9Rimoa

[Purdue Institute for Cancer Research @PUCancerInst]

Cancer doesn’t rely on a single pathway — and new therapies may not have to either.

Andrea Kasinski is developing microRNA therapies that suppress multiple cancer-driving genes at once, taking a broader approach to stopping tumor growth and resistance. https://t.co/laYnfLKDqs

[Kihara Laboratory @kiharalab]

Our new article is just published! "Computational approaches for protein complex modeling for intermediate resolution cryo-EM maps". We introduced our recently developed tools available on the EM server (https://t.co/ffpc5JeKgf).
You can read it here: https://t.co/WyPq9g4icE

[Purdue Biological Sciences @PurdueBiolSci]

Congratulations to the ten Purdue faculty chosen as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science including these faculty from Purdue Science:
Ximena Bernal, Chris Clifton, Douglas Comer, Stephanie Gardner, Weiguo Andy Tao, Dongyan Xu
https://t.co/Cx2udVuroH