Nov, 2023
Congratulations to Sujan and Masrur. They each presented a 20-min talk at the American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting, Nov. 15-18, 2023, OKlahoma City.
October, 2019
Dipendra, Donghua, and Jacob Mahaffey of Cowboy Technologies attended the NSF Life Science I-Corps regional program in MD Anderson. It involved two trips to Houston and the
workshop program lasted for a whole month of October 2019. We conducted over 35 customer discovery interviews with oncologists, pharm industry people and hospital administrators!
Sep. 16, 2019
Congratulations to Dipendra Bhandari for becoming a Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Scholar! He will receive $2,000 scholarship and learn how to translate technologies to commercial applications through a course and practices.
Apr 20, 2019
Congratulations to Dipendra Bhandari who won the Best Graduate Oral Presentation in the recent 64th Annual Pentasectional Meeting of ACS, on April 13, 2019 in Norman, OK.
His presentation was "Molecular Dynamics Study of Protein Mortalin and Anti-Cancer Compounds Flex-Hets".
Apr. 16, 2018
Congratulations to Gil Repa on his reception of a
Wentz Research Grant.
Apr. 2, 2018
Dr. Zhou received the 2018 President's Fellows Faculty Research Award to study the structure
of protein mortalin in complex with cancer drug SHetA2. This study is expected to
provide accurate information for structure-guided design of compounds with the best cancer
inhibition power and the least toxicity. Dr. Zhou was one of the three faculty honored
at the 2018 Researcher's Reception on March 28.
Feb. 28, 2018
Congrats to Gil Repa who won the second place in
the Three Minute Thesis Competition for undergraduate students on last Friday, Feb. 23. He was
invited to present again at an OSU Heritage Foundation Celebration fundraising event on April 14.
July 15, 2015
Congrats Drs. Lian Duan, Penghui Lin, and Amanda Taylor on their successful thesis defense.
September 9, 2014
Dr. Zhou received Junior Faculty Award for Scholarly Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences.
August 1, 2012
We and our collaborator Dr. Brenda Smith in Nutritional Sciences recieved funding from the
College of Human Health, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Physics
to conduct interdisciplinary research
on biochemical and microstructural changes of bone caused by type 2 diabetes.
May 15, 2012
Our OCAST Health proposal is funded to study structure of membrane fusion protein syntaxin.
March 19, 2012
Dr. Rui Zhang of Northeastern State University received funding from INBRE for our collaborative project to study how HIV
capsid formation and budding are impacted by membrane mechanical properties.
September 28, 2011
Donghua gave an invited seminar at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Ok.
May 26, 2011
Our NIH R15 proposal was funded to study lipid storage proteins.
Nov 10, 2010
Donghua gave an invited seminar at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.
Sept 2010
Up Close with Estela Arrese,
our collaborator, by Findings, NIGMS, NIH.
June 28, 2010
We moved to the new Henry Bellmon Research Center, a $70M facility designed to promote
interdisciplinary researches with focus on Biophysics, Biodiversity, Advanced Materials, and Photonics.
June 22, 2010
Our OCAST proposal was funded. This project studies lipid storage proteins, in collaboration with Drs. Jose Soulages and Estela Arrese in Biochemistry.
May 27, 2010
Donghua gave an invited seminar at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), Tallahassee, FL.
May 12, 2010
Liying gave a talk at Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference, Membrane Proteins: Structure & Function, Suzhou, China.
Apr. 10, 2010
Donghua was invited to speak at the 55th Annual Oklahoma American Chemical Socienty Pentasectional Meeting, Norman, OK.
Mar. 30, 2009
Donghua gave a talk at the 50th Experimental NMR Conference (ENC), Pacific Grove, CA.
Apr. 18, 2009
Donghua gave a talk at the 54th Annual Oklahoma American Chemical Socienty Pentasectional Meeting, Tulsa, OK.
