So Young Bae Receives Invitation and Award to Speak at the American Crystallographic Association in Chicago
PhD student So Young Bae received a Travel Award to present her research at the 2025 American Crystallographic Association (ACA) Annual Meeting, held July 18–23 in Lombard, just outside Chicago, Illinois. Her work was selected for both a 30-minute oral presentation and a poster presentation and marked a notable achievement in the field of structural […]
Congratulations to Soyoung Bae on American Crystallography Association Early Career Scientist Spotlight
We are thrilled to announce that Soyoung Bae, a PhD graduate student in the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry (MCBB) program, has been featured in the American Crystallographic Association’s (ACA) Early Career Scientist Spotlight for 2024. This Spotlight not only provides insight into Soyoung’s background and experience, but extolls the facilities and instruments at […]
Professor Adrian Whitty Awarded 4 Years of Funding from the NIH.
Professor Whitty was awarded a 4 Year grant by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to further his studies of NF-kB Modulators. The title of the Research Project is: Structure and Mechanism of NF-kB Essential Modulator (NEMO). This funding will allow Professor Whitty and his Co-PIs Professors Karen Allen of Chemistry and Thomas Gilmore of […]
NIH Funds Allen to Explore Insulin-Linked Metabolic Pathway
Continuing their highly productive (32 publications), 20-year collaboration, Professor Karen Allen and Dr. Debra Dunaway-Mariano, University of New Mexico, have received a 4-year, $1.26 million award from the NIH. The team is known for much of the current understanding of catalysis and specificity of the Haloalkanoic Acid Dehalogenase Superfamily (HADSF). This current award, “Structure and […]
High School Students Learn About X-Ray Crystallography
Professor Karen Allen and Dr. Jeff Bacon, staff crystallographer of the Chemical Instrumentation Center (CIC), demonstrated the power of X-ray crystallography to local area high school students as part of an American Crystallographic Association (ACA) outreach program. The scientists hosted two groups. In March, 12 students from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School and their teacher, Aaron […]
Karen Allen Advises on Publishing Ethics for Research
Professor Karen Allen, an Associate Editor of Biochemistry, has contributed to the fifth episode of the American Chemical Society’s series, ‘Publishing Your Research 101.” The episode addresses “Ethical Considerations for Authors and Reviewers.” This series interviews experts such as Professor Allen to obtain their insights on practical, real world questions and issues facing authors of […]
Professor Allen Featured Speaker at “ACS on Campus”
Learning about the ins and outs of scholarly publishing is an important aspect of training as a scientist. For its September 2011 ACS on Campus event, “Basics of Peer-Review and Scholarly Publishing: From the Editors Themselves,” the American Chemical Society has invited Professor Karen Allen to speak on the topic of how to begin the […]
Chemistry Receives NSF Multi-User Research Instrument Award
The Boston University Department of Chemistry has received funds from the NSF MRI program to acquire a Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectrometer, which will enhance the research of scientists in several departments encompassing biological and organic chemistry. In addition to the Principal Investigator, Professor Karen Allen, there are five major users at BU whose research will […]
Faculty of 1000 Highlights Allen Group Findings
A recent publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society by Professor Allen and her Research Group, “Engineering Encodable Lanthanide-Binding Tags into Loop Regions of Proteins,” was evaluated in by Professor Gottfried Otting in Faculty of 1000. It is Professor Otting’s view that, “this paper shows for the first time that a lanthanide-binding peptide […]
Two Groups Awarded BWF Travel Grants
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) uses Collaborative Research Travel Grants to facilitate biomedical research among laboratories in the US and abroad. This February, two Chemistry groups received these competitive awards. One of the grants will support Professor Pinghua Liu and his graduate student, Jinzhao Shen, to go to Beijing to work in the laboratory of […]