Lombeh Tengbeh, an RUC Biology UG has joined the lab for summer research and won a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant. She will be studying the biochemistry of a sphingolipid glycosyltransferase.
What’s New?
Ceramide kinase paper available on bioRxiv!
Tanisha’s new paper on a bacterial ceramide kinase is now available on bioRxiv! This was a great collaboration with Ziqiang Guan (Duke) and George Carman (Rutgers).
Best poster award!
Congratulations to Tanisha for winning a best poster award at the CCIB poster session!
Lab-spiel
The lab went curling!! Truman “Coach” Dunkley got us sliding some stones in no time. Check out the photos on the website. This is definitely a new annual tradition… any CCIB labs want to challenge us next year??
Tanisha joins the lab!
Welcome to Tanisha Dhakephalkar who joined the lab as a Biology MS student!
LipidMAPS Blog- Lipid of the year candidate
The folks at LIPID MAPS gave ceramide phosphoglycerate a shout out! I have new candidates for novel lipid structures of the year to date – ceramide phosphoglycerate and diphosphoglycerate from genetically modified, Gram-negative bacteria, deficient in lipid A (Zik, J.J. et al. Caulobacter lipid A is conditionally dispensable in the absence of fur and … Continue reading LipidMAPS Blog- Lipid of the year candidate…