July 2016
Miranda Mecha was awarded a Graduate Fellowship form the Molecular Biophysics Training Program. Way to go, Miranda!
Miranda Mecha was awarded a Graduate Fellowship form the Molecular Biophysics Training Program. Way to go, Miranda!
Ani Srivastava has been awarded a UW-Madison Hilldale Fellowship to carry our experimental studies on cotranslational protein folding in the Cavagnero lab. Congrats, Ani!!! Alumnus Jung Ho Lee (now postdoc at NIH with Ad Bax) has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Chemistry of Seoul National University. Way to go, Jung Ho! …
Collin Goebel has been awarded a Biochemistry Fellowship to pursue research on molecular chaperones in the summer 2016. Way to go, Collin! Susanna Yaeger-Weiss won three awards: the Karen M. Telander Undergraduate Research Scholarship to pursue summer research on prion folding and aggregation in the Cavagnero group, the UW-Madison Student-Support-in-Chemistry Scholarship, and the Margaret McLean …
Rayna Addabbo wins a Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) for her poster presentation on the kinetics of protein folding upon release from the ribosome, at the 60th Biophysical Society Meeting in Los Angeles, California. Wow, very cool, Rayna, keep up with the great presentation skills and interesting research results! Former group member Margarita Santiago obtains a …
Miranda Mecha joins the Cavagnero group. Miranda: we are all really excited to welcome you to our team!
Andrew Fuchs is a recipient of the 2016 Educational Committee Travel Award to present his research on the interaction of nascent proteins with the ribosomal surface at the 2016 Biophysical Society Meeting in Los Angeles, California. Congratulations, Andrew! Former postdoctoral fellow Valeria Guzman-Luna won the Award for the “Best Oral Presentation”, after her lecture based on …
Yusuke Okuno has been invited to deliver an oral presentation on his research in Laser-enhanced NMR at the 2015 Chicago Area NMR Discussion Group Conference (CANMRDG), which will take place on November 7 at at AbbVie Inc. Headquarters in Lake Bluff, IL. Great job, Yusuke!
Yusuke Okuno is awarded A Student Travel Grant to present his research in Laser-enhanced NMR Spectroscopy at the 2015 Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference in Asilomar, California. Great job, Yusuke!
Rayna Adabbo wins a Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) in Biopolymers in Vivo for her presentation on cotranslational protein folding kinetics at the 2015 Biophysical Society Meeting. Well done, congratulations Rayna!
Matt Dalphin joins the Cavagnero group as a 1st year Biophysics graduate student. Welcome to our group Matt! We look forward to fabulous science with you!