Justin’s last paper on DNA-protein cross-link (DPC) repair was just accepted at Mol Cell. It shows that the ATPase FANCJ unfolds the DPC in preparation for proteolysis. Congrats, Justin (in absentia)! Thanks to our amazing collaborators Julian Stingele, Denitsa Yaneva, and Max Donsbach, who helped make it happen.
Post-doc Alex Wu has accepted a position at Arrakis Therapeutics. Best of luck, Alex!
Olga’s paper showing how UBXN7 cooperates with p97 to facilitate CMG disassembly during replication termination is published in Nature Communications! Congratulations Olga! Read the full story here: Cooperative assembly of p97 complexes involved in replication termination
The lab welcomes visiting scholar Rhian Gruar who is joining us to work with Manal for the next few months!
MD-PhD student Martha Longley has joined the Walter lab. Welcome, Martha!
Tycho and Anissa in the lab have established the targeted protein degradation method Trim-Away in frog egg extracts and shown that the underlying mechanism is different from what was previously proposed. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.23.501259v1
Welcome to undergraduate Giselle Chiprez who is joining us to work with Maksym!
Ben and Izarys have a baby girl. Welcome, Isabela!
Joyce is awarded an HHMI Jane-Coffin Childs post-doctoral fellowship. Congratulations, Joyce!
Ernst receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congrats, Ernst!