It’s once again time to hit the highlights with a lab news round-up for the last year or so!

The lab’s NIH R35 grant on allosteric wiring of phosphatases was successfully renewed as of late January 2025. We are also part of a new NIH RF1 grant on developing degraders of STEP phosphatase in collaboration with Lutz Tautz. We feel very fortunate to have this critically important federal support for our biomedical research…

2024 was a banner year for publications from our lab. We’ve had papers at various stages including preprints, manuscripts in review, manuscripts in revisions, and final journal publications. See our Publications page for the latest.

Since the last news post, Daniel gave talks at UC Irvine, Baylor U, the ASRC-CCNY B3 seminar series, the ACA annual meeting, and a Stanford/LCLS workshop on variable-temperature crystallography. Most importantly, he also took parental leave for baby #2!

Virgil was the recipient of the CUNY Graduate Center Horst Schulz Award, given to the GC Biochemistry PhD student with the best paper in 2024 – he was honored with a reception where he gave a seminar at the GC recital hall in Midtown. He also gave a research talk at the ACS spring meeting.

Shivani gave a talk at the West Coast Structural Biology Workshop at Asilomar – one of the coolest conference venues in the US.

Liliana was awarded a Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship from the CUNY Graduate Center for $25,000 which will support her in her last year (or so) at CUNY.

Shah won the George A. & James E. Petersson Fellowship Fund Award from the CCNY Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and was selected to present a poster at the CUNY-wide Undergraduate Research Celebration Day.

Big congrats to all of the above!