UAMS Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

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Congratulations to Thomas Williams for winning the award for the best graduate student poster at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Retreat. Thomas is a first year graduate student in the lab of @BrianKoss. @uamscancer @uamshealth @UAMSGradSchool

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Congratulations to MD/PhD student Jake Edmondson, PhD on his defense of his dissertation, “Enhancing the cancer immunotherapy response through mechanisms of epigenetic control and endoplasmic reticulum stress.” Dr. Edmondson was mentored by Alan Tackett and @BrianKoss.

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Congratulations to Walter Saul Aragon-Ramirez, Baku Acharya, and Matthew Thompson for winning the Bhuvan Awards for Excellence in Biochemistry Graduate Research at Student Research Day. @uamshealth @UAMSGradSchool

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Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Preeti Nagar and graduate students Matthew Thompson and Vy Nguyen for their awards for the best cancer research presentations from the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at Student Research Day. @uamscancer @uamshealth @UAMSGradSchool

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Congratulations to graduate student Lokesh Akana for winning 1st place in the 3 Minute Thesis competition for his presentation on SETD2 as a Horcrux in radiation resistant rectal cancer. @uamscancer @uamshealth @UAMSGradSchool

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Congratulations to graduate student, Emory Malone, who won the People's Choice Award at the 2025 Art from the Heart event with a cross-stich entitled, Reflection.

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Congratulations to @ARMathSciArts senior Meera Patel and her @uamshealth graduate student mentors, Reham Sewilam and Bethany Paxton. Meera won multiple awards at regional and state science fairs for her research exploring novel ways to battle cancer risks. @uamscancer

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Congratulations to @ARMathSciArts high school senior Carmella Lewis and her @uamshealth graduate student mentor, Ben May. Carmella won three awards for her research on the development of an assay to identify inhibitors of a protein that is a target for cancer therapy. @uamscancer

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Congratulations to high school students Akshara Chevireddy and Nyera Ali and their UAMS mentor, Dr. Reine Protacio. They won three awards for their research on the efficiency of precise genome editing and were selected to compete in the International Science and Engineering Fair.

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Congratulations to Jessica Kelliher on being awarded an ACS postdoctoral fellowship! Dr. Kelliher's mentor is Dr. Brian Koss, and her research project aims to exploit DNA repair in cell therapy for solid tumors.

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Grover Miller, a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been named Editor-in-Chief of Drug Metabolism Reviews, the journal of the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics.

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Congratulations to graduate student Zijun Zhang who was awarded an Abstract Achievement Award for his poster at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting.

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Congratulations to Haven Griffin, Ph.D. on her successful defense of her dissertation entitled, "MC4R Synaptic Distribution and Modulation of Receptor Activity by Membrane Cholesterol Content." Dr. Griffin was mentored by Giulia Baldini, M.D., Ph.D.

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Congratulations to Alan Tackett for being awarded an Odyssey Medal for Research by Hendrix College. @uamshealth @uamscancer

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Congratulations to Stephanie Byrum for being named Distinguished Alumni by her high school, Atlanta High school in Atlanta, Texas!

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I'm excited to share graduate student @mdttrump97's fist preprint. He found a surprising similarity in untargeted CUT&Tag, BG4 CUT&Tag, and ATAC-seq enrichment. We plan to submit for review soon and would appreciate feedback.

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The Wahls lab just published a fascinating paper on inhibition of yeast growth by some lots of agar.
Agar lot-specific inhibition in the plating efficiency of yeast spores and cells https://t.co/j9TLt3JpJe

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Check out the the newest paper from the Wahls Lab.
Creating Meiotic Recombination-Regulating DNA Sites by SpEDIT in Fission Yeast Reveals Inefficiencies, Target-Site Duplications, and Ectopic Insertions https://t.co/z0P6Edok2J #mdpibiomolecules via @Biomol_MDPI

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Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Raney, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He has now published more than 100 scientific papers that are indexed by PubMed at the National Library of Medicine. @uamshealth @uamscancer

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Here's the preprint. Laboratory horror stories: Poison in the agars https://t.co/GqYoCruEne

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Check out the feature of the feature of a preprint by Mari Davidson, Reine Protacio, Wayne Wahls and colleagues in Science News. Bad agar is killing lab yeast around the world. Where is it coming from? | Science | AAAS https://t.co/e85Jz9qdYx