Departmental Awards. Congratulations!!!
Research
06.2022 "Structure of active human telomerase with telomere shelterin protein TPP1". Highlighted in UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Annual Newsletter
06.2018 "Structure of Telomerase with Telomeric DNA". Highlighted in UCLA Newsroom and UCLA IDRE
10.2015 "Structure of Tetrahymena telomerase reveals previously unknown subunits, functions, and interactions". Highlighted in UCLA Newsroom
04.2013 "The architecture of Tetrahymena telomerase holoenzyme". Highlighted in Nature News.
and UCLA Newsroom
03.2013 "xRRM: a new class of RRM found in the telomerase La family protein p65". Featured in the cover of RNA Biology.
06.2012 “Structural basis for telomerase RNA recognition and RNP assembly by the holoenzyme La family protein p65”. Highlighted in UCLA Newsroom.
03.2010 “Structurally conserved five nucleotide bulge determines the overall topology of the core domain of human telomerase RNA”. Highlighted in UCLA Newsroom.
03.2005 “Structure of the human telomerase RNA pseudoknot reveals conserved tertiary interactions essential for function”. Highlighted in UCLA Newsroom.
12.1998 "Structure of a human DNA repair protein UBA domain that interacts with HIV-1 Vpr". Highlighted in UCLA Newsroom.
Awards
04.2023 Yuan Yang is the recipient of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Postdoctoral Award
11.2022 Yao He is the recipient of Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research
06.2022 Yao He is the recipient of Sydney Finegold Postdoctoral Award
03.2022 Juli is the recipient of The Herbert Newby McCoy Award
03.2022 Robert is the recipient of The Technical Staff (Ts) Excellence Award
03.2022 Baocheng Liu is the recipient of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Postdoctoral Award
08.2021 Maria Grazia Murrali is the recipient of American-Italian Cancer Foundation (AICF) Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
06.2021 Yao He is the recipient of Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Award
03.2021 Yao He is the recipient of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Postdoctoral Award
12.2019 Yuan Yang is the recipient of American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship
06.2019 Yuan Yang is the recipient of Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Award
04.2019 Catherine Eichhorn is the recipient of Southern California RNA Meeting Poster Award
04.2019 Yaqiang Wang is the recipient of Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Postdoctoral Award
07.2018 Juli is the recipient of 2019 Founders Award from the Biophysical Society
07.2018 Ryan Cheng is recipient of Undergraduate Poster Award at 2018 Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference
05.2018 Lucas Repeta is the recipient of the Dean's Prize Science Awards
11.2017 Lucas Repeta is the recipient of the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students Poster Award
09.2017 Christina Helmling is the recipient of the DFG Fellowship
04.2017 Juli is the recipient of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award from Protein Society
11.2015 Henry Chan is the recipient of Ernest F. Hare, Jr., Memorial Scholarship
08.2014 Yaqiang Wang is the recipient of the ICMRBS Poster Award
08.2014 Catherine Eichhorn is the recipient of the Amiercan Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
06.2014 Yaqiang Wang is the recipient of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32)
05.2014 Catherine Eichhorn is the recipient of the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship
04.2014 Juli is honored with the Christopher S. Foote Term Chair
02.2014 Jiansen Jiang is the recipient of the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship
05.2013 Jiansen Jiang and Edward Miracco are the recipients the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research (shared)
05.2013 Jiansen Jiang and Edward Miracco are the recipients the Parvin Foundation Special Recognition Award (shared)
05.2013 Jiansen Jiang and Edward Miracco are the recipients the MBI Postdoctoral Award (shared)
03.2013 Henry Chan is the awardee of the NIH CMB Training Grant
11.2012 Catherine Eichhorn is the recipient of the NIH Tumor Cell Biology Training Program
05.2012 Mahavir Singh is the nominee of the the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research
05.2012 Mahavir Singh is the recipient of the MBI Postdoctoral Award
03.2012 Edward Miracco is the recipient of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32)
05.2011 Qi Zhang is the nominee the UCLA Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research
05.2011 Qi Zhang is the recipient of the MBI Postdoctoral Award
05.2009 Qi Zhang is the recipient of the Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
05.2009 Mijeong Kang is the recipient of the MBI Postdoctoral Award
04.2009 Juli is elected to the National Academy of Sciences
03.2009 Darian Cash is the awardee of the NIH CMB Training Grant
04.2004 Carla Theimer is the recipient of the MBI Postdoctoral Award
Key Events
09.2023 Laixing Zhang joins the lab. Welcome Laixing!
04.2023 Yuqing Wang joins the lab. Welcome Yuqing!
08.2022 Mahtab Bbeikzadeh joins the lab. Welcome Mahtab!
11.2021 Yanjiao Wang joins the lab. Welcome Yanjiao!
01.2020 Maria Grazia Murrali joins the lab. Welcome Maria!
08.2019 Catherine Eichhorn will start his independent position as Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln! Congrats Katie!
07.2019 He Song joins the lab. Welcome He!
11.2018 Baocheng Liu joins the lab. Welcome Baocheng!
06.2018 Jonathan Luo and Tsogt Erdenee from the high school student summer internship program join the job for the summer research. Welcome Jonathan and Tsogt!
09.2017 Yao He joins the lab. Welcome Yao!
09.2017 Jiansen Jiang will start his independent position as Investigator at NIH! Congrats Jiansen!
05.2017 Christina Helmling joins the lab. Welcome Christina!
07.2016 Yuan Yang joins the lab. Welcome Yuan!
05.2016 Lukas Susac joins the lab. Welcome Lukas!
02.2016 Wendan Ren joins the lab. Welcome Wendan!
07.2015 Ritwika Basu joins the lab. Welcome Ritwika!
12.2014 Darian Cash successfully defends Ph. D. Congrats Darian!
06.2014 Jing Xue joins the lab. Welcome Jing!
05.2014 Mahavir Singh will start his independent position as Assistant Professor at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore, India. Congrats Mahavir!
03.2013 Elon Hartman successfully defends Ph. D. Congrats Elon!
11.2012 Zhonghua Wang will join University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as Assistant Professor/Research. Congrats Zhonghua!
08.2012 Henry Chan joins the lab. Welcome Henry!
06.2012 Catherine Eichhorn joins the lab. Welcome Katie!
03.2012 Yaqiang Wang joins the lab. Welcome Yaqiang!
11.2011 Qi Zhang will start his independent position as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Congrats Qi!
10.2011 Nak-Kyoon Kim will join Korea Institute of Science and Technology as Senior research scientist. Congrats Nak-Kyoon!
03.2011 Edward Miracco joins the lab. Welcome Edd!
03.2011 Bon-Kyung Koo joins the lab. Welcome Bon-Kyung!
09.2009 Darian Cash joins the lab. Welcome Darian!
06.2008 Chin-Ju Park will start her independent position as Assistant Professor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea. Congrats Chin-Ju!
10.2007 Qi Zhang joins the lab. Welcome Qi!
09.2006 Carla Theimer will start her independent position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at University at Albany, State University of New York. Congrats Carla!
08.2006 Mahavir Singh joins the lab. Welcome Mahavir!
06.2006 Chin-Ju Park joins the lab. Welcome Chin-Ju!
03.2006 Mijeong Kang joins the lab. Welcome Mijeong!
01.2006 Nak-Kyoon Kim joins the lab. Welcome Nak-Kyoon!