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BBMB Assistant Professor Walter Moss has received an Eli Lilly Research Award to fund a collaborative research project with Iowa State University scientists researching innovative methods for finding previously overlooked targets for drug therapies in RNA. The $123,000 award supports the...
June 2020 Young Alumni of the Month
By: Tayler Reynolds
Katherine Johnson
Hometown: Mendota Heights, Minnesota
Job title and company: Research Technologist at Mayo Clinic
Katherine Johnson (’17 agricultural biochemistry), research technologist at Mayo Clinic, offers an...
Puneet Juneja
Dr. Puneet Juneja will start at ISU on July 1, 2020, and will oversee the new Cryo-EM Facility that will be located in the renovated lab space of 0112-0114 Molecular Biology Building.
The Roy J. Carver Trust grant will help advance the second phase of the Iowa...
Madeline Farringer
Behnia Rezazedah
Undergraduate students of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (BBMB), Madeline Farringer and Behnia Rezazedah, were selected as 2020 Goldwater Scholars.
The...
Ryan Andrews, Ph.D. candidate in Biochemistry, is a recipient of the 2020-2021 Brown Graduate Fellowship award from Iowa State’s Office of the Vice President for Research. He is one of 14 outstanding students from across Iowa State to receive this year’s award that includes $10,000 in...
Olivia Gray (left) and Jacqueline Ehrlich
Two BBMB graduating seniors, Olivia Gray (Biochemistry S20) and Jacqueline Ehrlich (Agricultural Biochemistry S20), have been selected to receive the 2020 Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior Award by the ISU Alumni Association Awards...
AMES, Iowa – The National Academy of Inventors is adding Iowa State University’s Balaji Narasimhan and Guru Rao to its roster of academy fellows.
The academy announced today it is recognizing Narasimhan – an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering, the Vlasta Klima...
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) evaluators have completed the review of Iowa State University's Fall 2019 program applications and have awarded full accreditation.
ASBMB accreditation is a national, independent, outcomes-based evaluation mechanism that...
The Iowa State community will honor an estimated 2,231 Fall 2019 graduating students during two commencement ceremonies this weekend in Hilton Coliseum and seven BBMB graduate students will be among those graduating. The Graduate College's ceremony, during which an estimated 107 doctoral and...
Sarah Zelle, "Expermenting with Success," featured in LAS Link
"I knew that my place was in a lab. I want to be on the front lines of making discoveries that could eventually lead to better treatments for patients.”
(Left to right) Dipa Sashital, Dean Beate Schmittmann, Tracie Hennen-Bierwagen, Dean Beate Schmittmann
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) celebrated exemplary faculty and staff during LAS Convocation September 9, 2019 at the ISU Memorial Union. Dipa ...
Reuben Peters, professor in Iowa State University’s Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (BBMB), was selected as a Roy J. Carver Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology by Beate Schmittmann, dean of the College of Liberal Arts...
Members of BBMB welcomed new biochemistry graduate students at an Ice Cream and Poster Session held on August 21
The new students are,
William Agbemafle, PhD rotation student
John Beck, PhD direct admit to Professor Joshua Beck's research group in B M S
Daniel Burns, PhD rotation student...
Denis Tamiev at Iowa State Fair Pitch Off August 2019
Denis Tamiev, a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry in Professor Nigel Reuel's (CB&E) research group, advanced to the semifinals held on August 16 of the Iowa State University pitch-offs at the Iowa State Fair....
Dipali Sashital - photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University
Dipali Sashital is passionate about her research uncovering the molecular makeup of bacterial immune systems. She also thrives on instilling a love of biochemistry in undergraduate and graduate students. Her dedication to...
Denis Tamiev, a graduate student in biochemistry in Professor Nigel Reuel's (CB&E) research group, was selected to join a cohort of 15 entrepreneurs who will participate in the CYstarters program this summer. The 11–week intensive program, coordinated by the Iowa State...
Reuben Peters, professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, was among 19 faculty members of Iowa State University to be awarded the 2019 Exemplary Faculty Mentors Award on May 2nd in recognition of faculty mentors who go above and beyond the formal...
Dr. Scott Nelson, Associate Professor of the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology, has been elected to represent the Biological and Agricultural Sciences division for the Graduate Council from Fall 2019 to Spring 2022.
Dr. Dipali Sashital has been named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program provides an unrestricted research grant of $100,000 to support the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. The criteria...
Marit Nilsen-Hamilton
An Ames Tribune article focuses on the research being lead by Marit Nilsen-Hamilton, an Iowa State University professor with the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on how plants...
Several BBMB undergraduate students are among the 62 students representing 30 different majors from Iowa State University at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, the largest undergraduate research conference in the U.S., taking place this week, April 11-13th, at Kennesaw...
Ryan Andrews and Daniel Kramer
Ryan Andrews and Daniel Kramer, Ph.D. candidates in Biochemistry, have each been awarded a Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Award for 2019. This award is to recognize meritorious performance by a...
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, has committed more than $3.5 million to transform biomolecular research at Iowa State University (ISU) to advance the second phase of the ISU Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology’s Initiative in...
Daniel Kramer, a Ph.D. candidate in Biochemistry, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Brown Graduate Fellowship in the amount of $10,000. The purpose of the fellowship program, administered by the Office of the Vice President of Research of Iowa State University, is to assist ...
The BBMB Graduate Learning Community monthly lunch meeting included an ugly holiday sweater contest. A photo of the winner can be found at the Graduate Learning Community website.
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