I am happy to announce that I am a co-author on Xia’s manuscript titled, “An S116R Phosphorylation Site Mutation in Human Fibroblast Growth Factor-1 Differentially Affects Mitogenic and Glucose-Lowering Activities.”
The manuscript has been accepted and published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences!
I am happy to announce that I am a co-author on Xia’s manuscript entitled “Engineering a Cysteine-Free Form of Human Fibroblast Growth Factor-1 for “2nd Generation” Therapeutic Application.”
The manuscript has been accepted and published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences!
I am pleased to receive a presentation grant from the Congress of Graduate Students at Florida State University in the amount of $500 to attend and present my work at the annual Protein Society meeting in Barcelona, Spain!
I am pleased to be second author on Liam Longo’s manuscript titled “A Single Aromatic Core Mutation Converts a Designed “Primitive” Protein from Halophile to Mesophile Folding” which has been accepted to Protein Science!
I was interviewed and featured in the summer 2014 issue of FSUMED Magazine and on the FSU 24/7 News website.
Link to site can be found here!
Happy to say I finally diffracted a crystal I set up by myself. The experience was awesome! I will never tire of being able to physically see proteins that I helped design.
Here is a picture of the lucky crystal!
I am happy to be a co-author on Liam Longo’s manuscript which has been accepted to the journal Cell: Structure! The paper is titled, “Alternative Folding Nuclei Definitions Facilitate the Evolution of a Symmetric Protein Fold from a Smaller Peptide Motif.”
During this project, I helped Liam with expression and purification of some “circular permutations” of FGF-1 (a protein). We discovered that circular permutation of FGF-1 is too destabilizing and none of the mutant proteins were able to fold.