RONNING LAB NEWS
Updates in the fight against disease
Chris Goins is now a doctor.
Chris successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Chris! He will be starting his new Post-doc position in Dr. Palczewski's lab at Case Western Reserve University. Well done and good luck!
Cecile's Homoserine Kinase structure is published!
Congratulations to Cecile on the publication of her Homoserine Kinase paper! Very well done.
Chris is on a publication roll.
Chris Goins' paper describing the covalent inhibition of the Antigen 85C mycolyltransferase with Tetrahydrolipstatin was accepted for publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Congratulations Chris!
Mike's, Vidhi's, and Samantha's Probe paper is accepted
The paper describing the development and testing of a Fluorescence polarization probe for ATP and S-adenosylmethionine utilizing enzymes has been accepted for publication in Analytical Chemistry. Great work! This represents the start of an entirely new direction for the Ronning Group.
Chris' and Celine's Paper describing Rv3802 substrate recognition was accepted.
Chris' and Celine's first paper focusing on how the M. tuberculosis-encoded Rv3802 protein recognizes the phosphatidylinositol substrate was accepted for publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Well done! Congratulations.
Cecile presents her GlgE story at MECC 2017
Cecile was invited to give an oral presentation of her work at the 2017 Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference in Chicago. It was very well received and she was immediately invited to give a talk at a Gordon Research Symposium in summer of 2018. Congrats Cecile!
Cecile Petit publishes her new GlgE X-ray crystal structure.
Congratulations Cecile! The paper was accepted for publication in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.
The Ronning Lab Welcomes Samantha
Samantha Greeley has decided to assist the Ronning lab in their efforts to develop new drugs to treat TB. Welcome to the lab, Samantha!
The Ronning Lab is in the news
Prof. Ronning and Mike Banco were interviewed today about the recent PNAS paper and working with NASA to grow protein crystals on the International Space Station. As soon as we have links to the video, I will post them.
A link to the UToledo press release is here.
NBC 24 Ran a story about the research and has a video.