Congratulations to Lauren Kotsull and Mary Kay H. Pflum on their newly published research, “Thermal shift engagement assay for Class IIA histone deacetylase inhibitor screening.” In this research article, the authors developed an […]

Congratulations to Udana Ariyaratne, Valentine Nwanelo, Rachael Tiamiyu, Ishadi Kodikara, and Mary Kay H. Pflum on their latest research article titled “Proteomics-Based Trapping to Study Substrates of Histone Deacetylase 6 […]

Congratulations to Ishadi Kodikara, Valentine Nwanelo, Angela Belanger, and Mary Kay H. Pflum on their newly published research, “HDAC7 influences ER-⍺ transcription via NCoR-HDAC3 dissociation.” Here, the authors established Acetyllysine-dependent HDAC7-NCoR-HDAC3 […]

Congratulations to Ishadi K.M. Kodikara and Mary Kay H. Pflum on their latest review article on HDAC 7, titled “Scaffolding Activities of Pseudodeacetylase HDAC7,” which is now published on the […]

Congratulations to Rachael Tiamiyu and Tolulope Oyewumi for earning the Outstanding Research Poster Awards at the 2024 NOBCChe (National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers) […]

Ishadi Kodikara, Ph.D., defended her thesis on October 17th, 2024, titled “Scaffolding Activities of Pseudodeacetylases.”

Lauren Kotsull, Ph.D., defended her thesis on October 11th, 2024, titled “Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Class IIa Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitors.”

Hannah Bremer, Ph.D., defended her thesis titled “Development of Chemical Tools to Identify Kinase-Substrate Pairs.” on June 7, 2024.

Udana Ariyaratne, Ph.D., defended his thesis on Dec 13th 2024, titled “Trapping mutants to discover substrate preference of HDAC enzymes.”