LAB NEWS
Congratulations to Lusine, who was awarded the departmental Organic Chemistry Award at our end-of-year student reception! She earned the prize because she had the highest cumulative grade in CHEM 333 and 334 in the past year.
Today Keen successfully presented his thesis seminar! After submitting his thesis on May 10th, Keen will have earned his MS in Biochemistry. Congratulations, Keen!
Our spring semester lab dinner was held at the Italian restaurant Cafe Carolina. Everyone, including Keen and new student Kevin, was able to attend, except for Lusine who was under the weather. A delicious time was had by all!
Jan has won the prestigious Bianchi Graduate Student award, given each year to a graduate student in the college that has distinguished himself by extensive involvement and achievement in research. Congratulations, Jan!
Congratulations to Keen for landing a job in the Protein Purification division at Amgen! This is a great opportunity and we hope that it is the start of a long and happy career in industry! Now, you just need to finish your thesis....
Karin gave a talk at a PEPTalk protein purification conference in Palm Springs. She spoke about about our recently published paper on the preparation of Galpha, and it was relatively well-recieved (considering the majority of the audience came from industry).
Jan and Karin travelled to Snowbird Utah to attend the Keystone conference "Frontiers of NMR in Biology". We were able to meet a lot of people and renew old acquaintances, we gained a lot of insight and information during the seminars. Jan had a very fruitful poster session, and he was also able to get in some excellent skiing. Overall, we had a great trip!
Madelene, Nick and Karin attended the 25th annual CSUPERB symposium in Anaheim. Nick and Madelene presented a poster of their research on human TrkB-d5L, which was a great success - they had quite a few visitors during the poster session.
Our fall lab dinner was held at a Japanese curry house in West LA. It was a new experience for a number of people, and we witnessed a guy walk straight into a glass door - twice!
Welcome to new lab members Lusine Simonyan, Julie Jimenez and Jasmine Finnie! May your time in the lab be a big success.
We have returned from a productive trip to run NMR experiments at Scripps Research Institute! Karin was visiting TSRI for two weeks, while Keen, Madelene and Jan joined in on the experiments for three days. Everyone got experience in running their 900 MHz NMR!
Our manuscript, titled “Expression, purification and preliminary NMR characterization of isotopically labeled wild-type human heterotrimeric G protein alpha(i1)” has been published in the August 2012 issue of the journal Protein Expression and Purification. Jan is the first author - congratulations, Jan, on publishing your first paper!
At long last, we have had a manuscript accepted - the first (or many to come) for the Crowhurst lab! The paper is co-authored by Jan, and it presents details of our expression and purification protocol for isotopically labeled Gαi1 for NMR experiments. It will be published in the journal Protein Expression and Purification.
Will was finally able to put the finishing touches on his thesis and (after a 2-year process of writing while attending medical school) he has finally earned his MS in Biochemistry. Congratulations, Will! Your persistence has won out.
Wonderful news in the world of the Crowhurst lab! We have been awarded an NSF RUI (Research in Undergraduate Institutions) grant! It is worth ~$435,000 over 3 years! Many thanks to all the hard working students who have helped collect the preliminary data that made this grant possible!
Exciting news from our former lab member Thomas Schmidt! Thomas has become co-first author on a research article published in Nature magazine with his PhD supervisor, Tobias Ulmer, at USC.
Jan travelled to Santa Clara to attend the 24th Annual CSUPERB Symposium, and presented a poster on his research, which should soon be written up as a mansucript and published. He received a lot of interest from students and faculty who visited his poster.
Congratulations to Jan, who has been awarded a 2-year Departmental Graduate Scholarship! His hard work has paid off!
After a quench and a couple of other difficult events, the NMR is finally ready for use! We are doing some testing and hope to get to "real" experiments soon.
Welcome to new lab members Nick and Madelene! And welcome back to Omi, who returns to the lab after a one year hiatus.
Will successfully presented his thesis seminar to the department. Although he still has to complete the final components of writing his thesis, Will is very close to completing his MS in Biochemistry degree. Well done, Will!
The 600 MHz NMR has arrived!! It arrived on Monday, and since then we've managed to move it upstairs and set it up on its legs. Now comes the rest of the install!
We went out to dinner to say our final farewells to Naveen before he headed back to India to start his new job. Filipino food - did not go over too well with the group...
Congratulations to new graduates Omi, Kaveh, Kevin, Jessica and Daniel! They received their bachelor's degrees at today's commencement ceremony for the College of Science and Math.
Naveen successfully presented his thesis seminar to the department. He will be earning his MS in Biochemistry at this Spring's commencement ceremony. Congratulations Naveen! You deserve it.
Today we took our new lab group photo and went out to dinner to Ramayani Westwood to celebrate the work done in the lab this semester!
Naveen and Jan presented posters of their research at the 15th Annual CSUN student research symposium.
Naveen, Jan and Karin travelled to Orange County to attend the 23rd Annual CSUPERB Symposium. Both Jan and Naveen presented posters about their research, and had interest from many other students and from faculty.
Karin travelled to Washington DC to participate in the Meeting of MBRS-Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Program SC1 and SC2 Principal Investigators, a mini-conference for grant-holders to network and discuss strategies for success.
Naveen has been awarded a Thesis Support Program award, to help pay for the costs associated with his research in the lab. Congratulations, Naveen!
The NSF has awarded our department funds to purchase a new 600 MHz NMR spectrometer!!! This will provide a HUGE boost to the research in the Crowhurst lab, and will help other researchers in the department significantly. Karin was the PI on the grant proposal, and worked very hard with her colleagues to submit a winning proposal. This is really phenomenal news for us all!
Karin attended the Protein Society conference in San Diego. She presented a poster on the research performed by Will over the past 18 months, and it was well-received. She also visited Dr. Jane Dyson at Scripps to get the new NIH-funded project moving forward.
We are looking for a new graduate student to join the lab to work on our new NIH-funded research project. Click here for more details.
The Crowhurst lab has successfully obtained a SCORE SC2 research grant from the NIH! It is worth $435,000 over three years.
Karin has been awarded the CSUN Jerome Richfield Scholar Award, an honor given to only one campus faculty member per year.
Congratulations to Will for being accepted to the University of Cincinnati Medical School! He will be starting in Fall 2010.
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