BMMB graduate students Dante and Cody presenting the Booker Lab research poster at the BMMB recruitment weekend (left). Had a great time meeting potential new students, and we were able to catch up with Jesus, our REU undergraduate researcher from 2022 (below)! If you are interested in working with us here in the Booker lab, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Visit our Join The Lab page for more information.
Congratulations to Jesus Vazquez Hernandez for winning an award for his poster presentation at ABRCMS 2022 (see pictures below). Jesus completed a summer REU with the Booker lab where he expanded his knowledge of Radical SAM enzymes. During the school year he works with lab alumna, Allison Saunders at Lycoming College. Next, he is excited to tackle graduate school! Great work Jesus!
As Hispanic Heritage month comes to an end, we want to say thanks to the various Climate and Diversity committees on campus for all the fabulous events this past month. But an even bigger thanks for highlighting our amazing colleague, Angel L. Muñoz Hernández!
Check out exciting work from the Booker Lab! Cody, and coworkers, discovered the answer to a decades-long question at the forefront of archeal research. See below!
Congratulations to second year graduate student Dante Serrano on being awarded the NSF GRFP! A delayed post, but a nice article just came out and you should take a look! Nice work!
Article from the PSU Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Congratulations Dante!! @SerranoDanteA !! Great job!! https://t.co/hVzRrGcaSg
— Squire J. Booker (@BookerMan_PSU) May 13, 2022
Come one, come all! We would love to have you come experience the research environment at Penn State. Reach out to anyone in the Booker lab if you have any questions. Hope to see you soon!
Congratulations to all in involved for the new Booker Lab publication in Nature.
Check out the original article. LINK
Or take a look at the PSU write-up by Gail McCormick.
2021 has ushered in lots of good news for the Booker lab. Postdoc Arnab Mukherjee has accepted a new job and will be transitioning into that position. Congratulations and good luck! We have also received a few good scores on recent grant submissions that have motivated all of us even more in the laboratory. And lastly, we have welcomed three new graduate students into the Booker Lab. Congrats on starting your graduate career, Jiayuan, Angel and Dante!
To celebrate, Squire hosted a virtual happy hour last week. Thanks for the bubbly, Squire! (photo below)
Congratulations to current and previous Booker lab members Hayley, Anthony, Arnab, Tyler, Erica, and Bo on their recent publication in Nature Chemical Biology. Their publication, in collaboration with the Drennan lab, highlights the structural aspects of the non-radical mechanism of TsrM which is a member of the Class B (Cobalamin dependent) radical SAM methylase subfamily. Check out the story below!
PSU NEWS RELEASE by Gail McCormick
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