Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
@ColumbiaBiochem
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Joined January 2023
together with our newest arrival in the department, Dr. Naomi Latorraca, a wizard in GPCR structural dynamics, @AkankshaThawani completes our efforts to bring some UCBerkeley creativity at Washington Heights!.
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So excited to welcome @AkankshaThawani at the department!.
Now that our federal funding is restored, @ColumbiaBiochem can officially announce that @AkankshaThawani a super star in cryoEM and retrotransposons will be joining our faculty this winter! Welcome aboard Akanksha!.
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RT @fthoffmann: Excited to share my last major PhD work from the @SternbergLab. We discovered a mechanism that initiates transcription at p….
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RT @stephentang23: The sequel to our DRT2 story is here, and this one is once again full of surprises! This time around, the @SternbergLab….
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RT @ColumbiaMed: Congratulations to @ColumbiaMSPH’s.Class of 2025! 👏🎓 We look forward to celebrating your future triumphs. .
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RT @LomvardasLab: New Gene Editor Enables Greater Precision
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A new gene editor developed by Columbia and Broad Institute researchers may soon open the door to gene therapies for a wider array of diseases.
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RT @ZuckermanBrain: For the first time, scientists Charles Zuker, @FitzpatrickLab and team have mapped the tongue’s sweet sensor. This coul….
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RT @HHMINEWS: Big news in taste #science: HHMI Investigator Charles Zuker, @FitzpatrickLab and team have revealed the structure of the huma….
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RT @LomvardasLab: Awesome new paper from Shan Za and @ColumbiaBiochem and systems biology colleague Chaolin Zhang @….
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Nature - Studies on the essentiality of Ku in human cells reveal that Ku interacts with diverse double-stranded RNA molecules, including antisense Alu, and enables tolerance of Alu sequence...
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RT @arshukla: @FitzpatrickLab @ColumbiaBiochem @CellCellPress This is amazing stuff! Many congratulations!.
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Sweet!.
Over 20 years ago, Zuker et al. discovered the mammalian sweet taste receptors. Now, an exciting collaboration between our labs @ColumbiaBiochem reveals the #cryoEM structure of the human sweet receptor-key to sweet taste perception-online @CellCellPress!.
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Another historic scientific discovery by @ColumbiaBiochem and @ZuckermanBrain faculty Zuker and Fitzpatrick.
The structure of human sweetness: Cell So cool to see this out. An amazing journey from the receptor cloning to the receptor structure (and all the circuits in between the tongue and the brain) by Charles Zuker et al with the help of @FitzpatrickLab.
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Another great study from @CUIMCDeptofMed and @ColumbiaBiochem faculty Peter Kwong! Congrats to the team!.
Snake venom protection by a cocktail of varespladib and broadly neutralizing human antibodies: Cell super cool study by Peter Kwong and colleagues!.
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RT @LomvardasLab: Blood of man who’s had 200 snake bites helps make a potent antivenom
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Nature - Treatment combines existing drug with antibodies from hyper-immune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns.
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RT @LomvardasLab: Hashim Al-Hashimi Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences "Hashim the Dream"- congrats f….
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Al-Hashimi develops methods to capture images of RNA molecules in different conformations and uses the images to design new therapeutics.
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RT @LomvardasLab: Conserved energetic changes drive function in an ancient protein fold Same folds- different energ….
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Many protein sequences occupy similar three-dimensional structures known as protein folds. In nature, protein folds are well-conserved over the course of evolution, such that there are 100,000 times...
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2025 Canada Gairdner Award Winners Announced Congrats to BMB faculty member Iva Greenwald, and mentor of many BMB scientists Gary Struhl for this tremendous honor!.
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2025 Canada Gairdner Awards recognize world-renowned scientists for transformative contributions to research impacting human health
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RT @s_tavazoie: Computational discovery and experimental validation of mammalian gut colonization factors. Work led by our own amazing @men….
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Tree-of-life scale genotype-habitat association reveals conserved gene modules across thousands of gut microbial species and identifies previously undescribed factors that modulate microbial coloni...
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