Summer 2023

Graduates of the Summer! Congrats!!

These students successfully defended their PhD and are graduating with their doctorates:

Christian Frabitore

Ph.D. in Chemistry
Livinghouse Lab

Mackenzie Morgan Lynes

Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Hatzenpichler Lab

Summer Series Seminar

The summer seminars all take place on Thursdays in Byker at 3:10 pm.

May 18

Graduate Student Caleb Sindic

Advisor: Patrik Callis

May 25

Graduate Student Heidi Koenig

Advisor: Tom Livinghouse

June 1 

Graduate Student Dalton Compton

Advisor: Nick Stadie

June 8

Graduate Student Jerome Lepeule

Advisor: Tom Livinghouse

June 15

Plant Science Bldg (room 108).

Graduate Student Jonah Theisen

Advisor: Erik Grumstrup

June 22

Graduate Student Alex King (Materials Science) 

Advisor: Erik Grumstrup

Spring Semester 2023

Spring Graduates!

Here are the amazing graduate students from our department that graduated with a Master's in Science or Doctorates:

Alexandra Cheney

Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Copie Lab

Hunter Fausset

Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Bothner Lab

Jenna Mattice

Ph.D. in Biochemistry
Bothner Lab

Galip Yiyen

Ph.D. in Chemistry
Walker Lab

Savannah Cox

M.S. in Biochemistry
Bothner Lab

Tanner Henning

M.S. in Material Science
Walker Lab

We wish you all the best in your future endevours! 

Spring Ph.D. Defenses

Monday, April 24, 3pm
Plant Science Building Rm 108

Ms. Jenna Mattice, from the Bothner Lab, will defend her PhD in Biochemistry beginning with a seminar titled “Changing Shape: An Investigation into Allostery and Protein Conformational Ensembles”.

Tuesday, April 25, 11am
Byker

Ms. Alexandra Cheney, from the Copie Lab, will defend her PhD in Biochemistry beginning with a seminar titled "Investigations of the Gut-Brain-Metabolism Axis in Familial Dysautonomia."

Wednesday, April 26, 1pm
Byker Auditorium

Mr. Hunter Fausset, from the Bothner Lab, will defend his PhD in Biochemistry beginning with a seminar titled "Mass Spectrometry-based Omics Investigations of a Bio-Mining Methanogen."

Wednesday, May 10, 2:10pm
Byker Auditorium

Mr. Galip Yiyen, from the Walker Lab will defend his PhD in Chemistry beginning with a seminar titled "Nonlinear Optical Studies of Gypsum Dissolution Mechanisms, Surfactant Adsorption on Gypsum Surface and Analysis of Environmentally Related Ions." 

Upcoming Graduate Student Seminars

Come support your peers by attending their talks! Seminars are every Friday in Byker at 3:10pm.

January 20

Ms. Jessica Lusty Beech will be giving their 4th year talk in Biochemistry titled "Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Reduce: Understanding and Addressing the Limitations of a Plastic-Converting Iron Oxidoreductase." Jessica is a PhD student in the research lab of Professor Jen DuBois. Read her abstract on the department's seminar webpage!

March 8

Batu Balci will present his 4th year seminar talk titled, "Defined Lysate-Free Maturation of [FeFe]-Hydrogenases.". Batu is a graduate student in the research lab of Professor Joan Broderick. You can read his abstract on the department's seminar webpage!

April 6, Thursday

Mr. Connor Welty, a 4th year graduate student in Chemistry from the Stadie lab, will present a seminar on his research.

April 28

Mr. James Larson a 4th year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will present "Environmental Perturbation Reveals Unexpected Plasticity in the Microbial Metalloproteome."

May 4, Thursday

3:30 pm in the Byker Auditorium

Will Christian from the Hatzenpichler Lab will be giving his 4th year seminar!

New GSA Board 2023-2024

The new GSA board members have been elected and announced in the Fall 2022 semester, and will begin their duties this spring! The new board members that will be taking over the 3 positions that opened up are as follows:

Amy Demetritte
Sylvia Nupp
Magalee Frometa

They will be working alongside the following 2 board members from the 2022-2024 election:

Heidi Koenig
Olivia Duletski

We look forward to seeing what new changes will be in store for GSA!