Congratulations on the Recent Success of the Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Associates
· 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Liu (Ph.D. 2013) received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. We are incredibly proud of Dr. Liu's success! (4/01/2024)
· 2023 Congratulations to Dr. Ian Davis, Ph.D. 2021 from our lab and now Chief of Operations at the Diagnostic Systems Division of the Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) had led a team in the development of a groundbreaking protocol highlighted by USAMRIID in a news article . We are incredibly proud of Dr. Davis's success! (12/14/2023)
· 2023 Angelica Graciano, a first-year PhD student received an award today although details of which will arrive later (9/28/2023).
· 2023 Dr. Ian Davis, a 2021 PhD from our lab, was promoted to Chief of Operations, Applied Diagnostics, Diagnostic Systems Division, Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), The U.S. Army (8/2023).
· 2023 Cassadee Stagliano, a second-year PhD student, is recognized by the Abrams Award which recognizes the achievement of students in their first year of the PhD program (4/28/2023).
· 2022 Romie Nguyen delivered a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) - Enzymes, Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways (7/23/2022).
· 2022 our lab alumna Yifan Wang @UGA Chemistry received an NIH R35 Maximizing Investigators' Research (MIRA) award for early-stage investigators, totaling $1.887 million (starting on 8/01/22 for approximately five years). Congrats to Yifan on this success awarded within her first year of independence! (6/22/2022)
· 2022 Jiasong Li has been appointed Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Chemistry by the Dean of College of Sciences at UTSA. Congrats! (6/21/2022)
· 2022 our lab alumna Kathy Fange Liu @Penn received her NIH R01 grant. This is in addition to her recent 2022 ACS Cancer scholar award and 2019 NIH R35 Maximizing Investigators' Research (MIRA) award for early-stage investigators in 2019. Congrats to Kathy on her funding success! (6/18/2022)
· 2022 Inchul Shin has been appointed Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Chemistry by the Dean of College of Sciences at UTSA. Congrats! (6/17/2022)
· 2022 Ephrahime Traore, Romie Nguyen, and Samuel Montoya received Graduate School Professional Development Award for Travel ($700 for each award) to support (partially, together with our grant funding) their presentation at the GRC/GRS conferences. Congrats! (6/02/2022).
· 2022 Romie Nguyen's NIH F31 application was ranked in the single digit percentile in her first submission (3/09/2022).
· 2022 Ian Davis joins U.S. Army as a commissioned Biochemistry Officer (Captain, O-3)! He will be stationed at Ft. Detrick, working in the Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) (2/01/2022).
· 2022 Ephrahime Traore earned an F31 Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, an exciting milestone in his academic career (1/01/2022).
· 2021 Romie Nguyen delivered a talk on her study of a P450 enzyme in the Bioinorganic Chemistry session of the 2021 ACS SWRM conference in Austin, TX (11/02/2021).
· 2021 Ian Davis has been appointed Assistant Professor of Research after an open search starting from September 1, 2021. Congratulations!
· 2021 Yifan (Amber) Wang started her independent career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Chemistry and began to build her lab at the University of Georgia. Congratulations!
· 2021 Ian Davis successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on June 24th. Congratulations!
· 2021 Yifan (Amber) Wang has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on April 21st. Congrats, you can add "Ph.D." after your name now.
· 2021 Yifan (Amber) Wang is recognized by the Walmsley Endowed Graduate Award with a certificate and $1,000 cash.
· 2020 Samuel Montoya, received a generous two-year stipend support from NIGMS/NIH for his graduate studies.
· 2020 Yifan (Amber) Wang (graduate student)'s work is featured by SSRL-SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in a Science Highlight article "The Making of an Enzyme-in-Action Movie."
· 2020 Yifan (Amber) Wang, and three other lab members published our first metalloenzyme movie as part of our sixth PNAS direct submission paper since the lab inception entitled "Observing 3-hydroxyanthranilate-3,4-dioxygenase in action through a crystalline lens."
· 2020 Samuel Montoya, is honored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is on the 2020 Honorable Mention List in the federal agency's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). What a great way to start his doctoral program!
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2020
Romie Nguyen, received the Abrams Fellowship with a $2,000 cash award.
The selection of this competitive award is based on the accomplishments of the first year and the promise for future achievements.
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2019 Romie Nguyen, first-year graduate student, published her work
in a reputable chemistry journal ACS Catalysis
· 2019 Ephrahime Traore, received the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship from the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC), which will provide him with financial support to attend the very popular Metals in Biology GRC conference in January 2020.
· 2019 Yifan (Amber) Wang, delivered an invited talk while Romie Nguyen presented a poster at the 2019 A. I. Scott Symposium for Biological Chemistry, College Station, TX, September 27-28, 2019.
· 2019 Ephrahime Traore, received a generous two-year stipend support from NIGMS/NIH for his graduate studies
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2019
Kathy Liu (Ph.D. 2013) has been awarded by NIGMS/NIH
an ESI MIRA grant (R35, approximately $2M) to support her lab's research at Penn. This was truly a great success, especially considering her lab started just a little over one year. Congrats!
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2019
Yifan (Amber) Wang (graduate student)'s new paper was featured as an ACS Editors' Choice article
by ACS Catalysis.
· 2018 Ian Davis, won a poster award with a $100 gift card at The 2018 A. I. Scott Symposium for Biological Chemistry, College Station, TX, October 19-20, 2018.
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2018 Yu Yang was invited to deliver a short talk at
The 2018 A. I. Scott Symposium for Biological Chemistry,
College Station, TX, October 19-20, 2018.
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2018
Yifan (Amber) Wang (graduate student), won the college-level graduate student poster award at the
COS Research Conference
(which has hundreds of poster presentations) on October 5, 2018.
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2018
Ian Davis, won a poster award of the Department Chemistry at the COS Research Conference
(which has hundreds of poster presentations) on October 5, 2018.
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2018
Romie Nguyen, first-year graduate student, was awarded a four-year prestigious Presidential Distinguished Research Fellowship total $40,000.00.
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2018
Kathy (Fange ) Liu
has been appointed, and officially started her independent career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
in the at
The University of Pennsylvania. During her graduate study in our group between 2008-2013 followed with postdoctoral research at The University of Chicago. She was a very accomplished Ph.D. student during her graduate studies in our lab.
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2018 Ian Davis delivered an impressive talk at
The 7th Texas Enzyme Mechanisms Conference,
Austin, TX, January 2018.
· 2017 Kednerlin Dornevil has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congrats, you can add "Ph.D." after your name now. You're a role model and our previous lab manager. We're very proud of you.
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2017
Li Ma (graduate student) won a poster award at the COS Research Conference (which has hundreds of poster presentations)
with a Lenovo Thinkpad computer from Dean of the College on October 6, 2017.
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2017 Jiasong Li was invited to give a short talk
(i.e., contributed talk selected from posters) at the Gordon Research Conference - Enzymes, Coenzymes & Metabolic Pathways, Waterville Valley, NH, July 16-21, 2017.
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2016
Yu Yang and graduate student Ian Davis were in the spotlight of the ASBMB and their
Journal of Biological Chemistry publication was selected to be a
"Paper of the Week".
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2016
Li Ma a first-year graduate student, was awarded a four-year prestigious Presidential
Distinguished Research Fellowship total $40,000.00.
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2016
Uyen Ha, a senior undergraduate student, published a paper in JBC and graduated with a B.S. degree and distinction.
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2015
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2015
James Ross Terrell, a first-year graduate student, was awarded a prestigious University Fellowship in Diagnostics and
Therapeutics by the Associate Provost for Graduate Programs.
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2015
Uyen Ha, an undergraduate student in our lab, received a competitive 2015 Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD)
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship with stipend support.
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2015
Ian Davis received the "2014 prestigious Graduate Award for Outstanding Research at the Doctoral Level," Department of Chemistry, GSU
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2015
Ryan Gummper won the Poster Award at the 6th Southeast Enzymology Conference, Atlanta,
April 11, 2015 -- this was selected from 71 posters by a senior faculty panel.
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2015
Ryan Gummper came back home from Athens (GA) with a Poster Award after giving a talk
and presenting a poster at the 5th Winter School on Soft X-Rays in Macromolecular Crystallography.
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2015 Kathy Liu was invited to give a short talk (contributed talk selected from posters) at the Gordon Research Conference: Cell Growth & Proliferation, West Dover, VT, July 12-17, 2015.
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2015
Ryan Gummper, Beibei Liu, Jing Mu, and James R. Terrell were selected by the organizers to attend RapidData 2015 at Stanford Synchrotron
Radiation Lightsource, May 3 - 8, Menlo Park, CA.
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2015 Ian Davis was invited by the ASBMB Annual Meeting organizers to give an oral presentation in the Experimental Biology Section, Boston, MA, March 28 - April 1, 2015.
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2015
Ryan Gummper was invited to give a talk at the 5th Winter School on Soft X-Rays in Macromolecular Crystallography
between March 1 - 4 in Athens, GA.
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2014 Kednerlin Dornevil won the Advancing Science Travel Grant from the 2014 NOBCChe Organizers for a full board presentation in the NOBCChe Conference (https://www.nobcche.org/conference).
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2014 Jiafeng Geng is a recipient of the 2014 China Scholarship
Council Award (with a 6,000 USD cash award).
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2014 Kednerlin Dornevil is a recipient of the 2013 Graduate Award
for Outstanding Professional Service Award.
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2014 Lu Huo received the 2013 Chair's Award of the Department of
Chemistry, GSU.
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2014 Jiafeng Geng is the recipient of the 2013 Graduate Award for
Outstanding Research at the Doctoral Level.
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2014 Shingo Esaki is a
recipient of the 2013 Graduate Teaching Award (Ph.D. level)
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2014 Jiafeng (Jeff) Geng is a recipient of the MBD travel award for
attending the GRC Conference Enzymes, Coenzymes, Metabolic Pathways, Waterville
Valley, NH, July 13-18, 2014.
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2014 Lu (Cindy) Huo is a recipient of the MBD travel award for attending
the 14th American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting in Albuquerque,
NM, May 24-28, 2014.
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2013 Jiafeng (Jeff) Geng is named for the 2014 William M. Suttles Doctoral Research Fellowship (with $1,500
unrestricted cash for personal use) and received a competitive Associate Vice
President for Research Dissertation Award (with a $1,000 cash award).
· 2013 Kathy Liu published our fourth PNAS direct submission paper since the lab inception entitled "Pirin is an iron-dependent redox regulator of NF-kappB."
· 2013 Jiafeng Geng published our fifth PNAS direct submission paper since the lab inception entitled "Tryptophan-mediated charge-resonance stabilization in the bis-Fe(IV) redox state of MauG."
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2013 Jiafeng (Jeff) Geng won the first-place poster award (with cash) in
the inaugural Atlanta Area Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Symposium
conducted at Emory University, GA.
· 2013 Kathy Liu published our third PNAS direct submission paper through collaboration with the Wilmot lab entitled "Diradical intermediate within the context of tryptophan tryptophylquinone biosynthesis."
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2103 Jiafeng (Jeff)
Geng was a recipient of the Molecular Basis of Disease
Area of Focus Seed Grant ($7,500 jointly with Ankita Sachla of Biology.
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2013 Lu (Cindy) Huo, a Ph.D. student, is a recipient of the competitive Associate Vice
President for Research Dissertation Award ($1,000).
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2013 Kathy Liu was a
recipient of the Poster Award (with $100 cash) at the Third International
Conference on Chemical and Structural Biology of Nucleic Acids and Proteins for
Novel Drug Discovery, Atlanta, GA.
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2013 Lu (Cindy) Huo was named the Molecular Basis of Disease Area (MBD) of
Focus Research Fellow with stipend support starting August 2013 till
graduation.
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2013 Kathy Liu is a
recipient of the competitive Finn Wold
Protein Society Travel Award for attending the 27th Annual Symposium of The
Protein Society, Boston, MA
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2103 Kathy Liu is a
recipient of the Ambrose H. Pendergrast Graduate
Research Award from Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University.
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2103 Kathy Liu is the
recipient of the Poster Award (with $100 cash) at the Tenth Annual SER-CAT
Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
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2012 Jiafeng (Jeff) Geng, a Ph.D. student, is named the Molecular Basis of Disease (MBD)
Area of Focus Research Fellow with stipend support between August 2012 and 2014
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2012 Kathy Liu
received the competitive university graduate fellowship administrated by the Center for Diagnostics & Therapeutics (CDT) for a second term with
stipend support starting from August 2012 till graduation.
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2012 Kathy Liu is a
recipient of the Student Travel Award from the
International Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC).
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2012 Kednerlin Dornevil, a first-year Ph.D. student, received a competitive multi-year doctoral
fellowship award (which pays his stipend from 2012 till graduation) from the
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB, an organization provides education
support in 16 states run by a board of governors and senators).
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2011 Kathy Liu, a Ph.D. student, is a
recipient of the competitive university graduate fellowship administrated by
the Center for Diagnostics & Therapeutics (CDT) with stipend support
starting between August 2011 and June 2013.
· 2011 Ian Davis, received an undergraduate teaching assistant award.
