A 'CRYptic' beginning to the mammalian clock
Special thanks to Dongping Zhong, who is organizing a special issue of Photochemistry and Photobiology in honor of Aziz Sancar, 2015...
EMBO Molecular Machines
Alicia and I just got back from an amazing EMBO meeting on Molecular Machines. In addition to tooling around Heidelberg, we got to see...
Alicia speaks at UCSD Center for Circadian Biology Fall Workshop
Alicia Michael presented her work on an integrative computational and structural biology model of the CRY1-CLOCK-BMAL1 complex at the...
Protein complexes, watch your backside!
A big high five to UCSC colleagues Glenn Millhauser and Michael Stone for our collective efforts to get a new LC/MS system for...
Congrats to Professor Chelsea Gustafson!
We couldn't be more proud of Dr. Chelsea Gustafson, our first Ph.D. graduate from the lab -- she's starting this fall as Assistant...
Fun in the sun – learning protein crystallography in the IMSD Summer Research Institute
I want to thank each of the sixteen students that participated in the UCSC Summer Research Institute for a fun week focused on protein...
The very beginnings of circadian / sleep research
I recently came across this amazing video documenting of one of the first modern experiments on circadian timing and its control over our...
A bonfire send-off for Hande, Niki and Leslee!
Best wishes and fond farewells to a number of dearly beloved Partch lab members, as they head off to bigger and better opportunities. The...
Cyanobacterial clocks, demystified
If you've ever wondered how the three cyanobacterial Kai proteins work together to make a molecular clock that counts the passing of each...
Introducing... Dr. Chelsea Gustafson!
A hearty congratulations go out to Dr. Chelsea Gustafson for defending her Ph.D. last Friday -- the first one awarded from the Partch lab!
