News!

Fall 2024

  • Congrats to Kithmini for a poster award at the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference (MECC) at Norte Dame. Also, congrats to Sahar for giving a fantastic talk at the conference!

  • Congrats to Zack for a poster award at the Department’s annual undergraduate symposium! The award allows Zach to attend an upcoming ASBMB conference! Special thanks to the Chemistry Department and anonymous donors for supporting Zach’s research project!

  • Congratulations to Dulmi and Danyun and all contributing authors (Sahar, Bill, Khadijah, Roshni, Zigmund, and Alex) on our JBC publication and having this work be selected as an “editor’s pick.”

Summer 2024

  • A special issue tribute to Dr. Sidney Altman was published here. It is a great honor that Coordinating Editors selected the X-ray structure (PDB 3Q1R) from postdoctoral work for the front cover to help convey Altman’s lasting contributions and remarkable scientific legacy.

  • Welcome Zach! And congrats for receiving a Chemistry undergraduate research fellowship as part of the department’s SURF program!

Spring 2024

  • Congratulations to Drs. Abzhanova and Senanayaka! PhD graduates! Also congrats to Owen! Next stop: grad school at UW-Madison.

  • Good work Dulmi, and all Reiter Lab contributing authors (Danyun, Kithmini, Joceline, Owen, Aashay, and our collaborators (Drs. Emre Deniz and Aykut Uren) on our LSD1-drug work published in ACS Biochemistry! Check it out here.

  • Congratulations Sahar as this year’s recipient of the Denis O’Brien Fellowship! Check out more about this fellowship here.

  • Congrats Dulmi and Meng! And Laurel, Sara, Sahar, and Alex too! Our collaborative work on LSD1-TERRA phase separation with the Zhang Lab has been published in Nature Communications! Check it out here.

Winter 2024

  • Grateful to be part of raising the research bar at Marquette.

  • Congrats to Owen in graduating. Awesome work in the lab these past 4 years and we wish you all the best in your scientific endeavors!

  • Welcome Chamindi and Ananya to the lab! And welcome Ellie and Max!

Fall 2023

  • Welcome Jackson and Tristan to the lab!

  • Congrats to Sahar, Owen, Kithmini, and Ali for presenting their research posters at the Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference.

  • Congrats to the lab (and our collaborators (Dr. Huaiying Zhang)) for an R01 award from NIGMS! Learn more about it here.

Summer 2023

  • Congrats to Ainur in her successful PhD defense! Best of luck in your new position as Senior Scientist at Pfizer in Pearl River, NY. We will miss you!

  • Congrats to Dulmi in her successful PhD defense! Best of luck in your new position as Senior Scientist at Catalent Pharma in Kansas City, MO. We will miss you!

  • Thank you Chemistry fellowship donors for supporting Owen’s summer research project!

Spring 2023

  • Congrats to Laurel, Joceline, Sara, and Julliane in your graduations and celebrations! So great to work with each of you these past years and wishing you all the best in your future endeavors! We will miss you!

  • Congrats to Owen for displaying a “mastery” level knowledge in the ASBMB certified exam! Next step: graduate school

Fall 2022

  • Congrats to Sara, Owen, Laurel, and Joceline for presenting their summer projects to the department and Marquette research poster symposiums. Thank you Chemistry undergraduate research donors!

Summer 2022

  • Congrats Joceline for a summer fellowship from the Little Warriors Foundation (LWF)! Thank you LWF for your support of Joceline and our research! Learn more about LWF here!

  • Congrats Ainur, recipient of the Rathore summer fellowship! Learn more about Dr. Rathore here!

Spring 2022

  • Congrats Joceline for being selected to represent Marquette at the Big East Undergraduate Poster Symposium in NYC! Learn more about the symposium here!

Winter 2022

  • Congrats Joceline for being honored as President Lovell’s first Difference Maker of 2022 for your determination as a scientist! Learn more about Joceline as a Marquette Difference Maker here, article here, and a Spectrum news interview here!

Fall 2021

  • Congrats Owen for receiving an NIH biomedical undergraduate training award!

Summer 2021

  • Blast from the past: RNase P ternary complex profiled as PDB molecule of the month! Learn more about our role in elucidating the structure of this ancient RNA-based enzyme here , here, and here!

  • Danyun’s work using NMR to study the protein motions associated with RNase P protein and protein-leader interactions is now published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences! Congrats Danyun!

  • Ainur and Alex’s contributions combining SHAPE and NMR spectroscopy of the lncRNA HOTAIR is now published in Journal of Structural Biology! Congrats Ainur and Alex!