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Frustrated with biochemistry? Want a chance to cope with that? What better way then hitting Dr. Heisler in the face with a Pie?! Come to the A-walk outside of Mellon Hall tomorrow 3-5pm and you can do just that!
Congrats to Elizabeth on her honorable mention at the 37th annual ACS Regional Symposium held here at Duquesne.
Today, the crystal structure of Ceg10, an effector protein from Legionella was deposited and released at the RSCB Protein Data Bank (PDB). While a lot remains to be determined about its function and targets during an infection, we are excited to finally release some of what we have learned about this protein in the last 8 years! The Ceg10 crystal structures are part of a collaborative project between Dr. Heisler’s lab and the Gammon, Alto, and Taglialucci lab’s at UT Southwestern Medical School.
More about what Ceg10 does during a viral infection can be found in a recent preprint: Exploiting Bacterial Effector Proteins to Uncover Evolutionarily Conserved Antiviral Host Machinery
The crystal structures can be found at the RSCD PDB: 9B8D and 9B8E
Disclaimer: I don’t really know anything about college basketball…
This was how the bracket was submitted by Cate this year. Yet, somehow she managed to pick more games correctly than anyone else in the lab!
Congrats Cate!
And now what dessert will you be selecting for lab meeting?
Elizabeth will be presenting at the Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium here at Duquesne next week! Check out a summary of her work: