News

Congrats to Steve who was just elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences!

Welcome to postdoc, Michael Currie, who joins us from the University of Canterbury!

Congrats to Drew on his paper published in Cell Chemical Biology! Special thanks to Dan, Maggie and Maria along with Jeffrey and Meredith from the Kruse lab. You can read it here.

Lena’s paper was just published in Developmental Cell! Check out the exciting collaboration between Lena Tveriakhina and Gustavo Scanavachi of the Kirchhausen lab. Special shout outs to Emily, Alex and Julia. You can check out the paper here. Congrats, Lena!

Welcome back, Maggie Burruss, who joins the lab as an Associate!

Welcome postdoc, Yuang Wu, who joins us from the University of Cologne!

Congrats, Drew! His aGPCR preprint is now online. Special thanks to members of the Blacklow and Kruse labs for their support. Click here to check out the preprint.

Congrats to Lena on her new collaboration with Gustavo Scanavachi of the Kirchhausen lab. Unprecedented real time imaging of Notch signaling in living cells! Check out the preprint here.

Congrats to Alex on his Notch paper published in Science Signaling! Special thanks to our fantastic team - Emily, Lena, Drew, Julia and collaborators. Click here to read the paper.

Congrats to Colin on his ADAM10 paper published in Cell with a special thanks to Emily and Khal! You can read it here.

A warm welcome to Annie Yang, our new research assistant!

Check out Dan’s paper now published in Nature Communications: https://rdcu.be/da1hJ!

A warm welcome to postdoc, Hyeong Jin Kim, who joins us from the University of Alberta!

Welcome Kyla Pelham, our new research intern, who joins us from Northeastern University!

Congrats to Katherine Susa! Katherine is now a UCSF Sandler Fellow. We miss you!

A warm welcome to Owen Price, our newest postdoc!

Steve is now the newest Board of Directors member at the IPI (Institute for Protein Innovation)! Read more about him here: https://tinyurl.com/mwweheur

Blacklow Lab is recruiting! We are looking for enthusiastic research fellows interested in joining our collaborative and interdisciplinary team investigating molecular mechanisms of signal transduction at the structural and cellular level. Please email Dr. Blacklow directly.

Congrats to Katherine Susa for defending her thesis!

Good bye to Colin Lipper, who has moved around the corner to H3 Biomedicine in Cambridge.

Congratulations to postdoc Julia Rogers on her NIH MOSAIC K99/R00 award from NIGMS!

January 2022: Welcome Maggie Burruss and Hannah Paquette - our two new research interns!  Maggie comes to us from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Hannah from Emmanuel College.

Congrats, Colin! Check out his Tspan 15 LEL structure paper here - https://bit.ly/3mML36g

You can read Vidya's new PROTAC paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00377

Summer 2021: Welcome to three new lab members - Dan Jones, Kenna Stenback, and Lauren Litzau (joint student with Andrew Kruse)!

Check out Vidys'a paper on phosphoproteome dynamics in response to SHP2 inhibition at https://elifesciences.org/articles/64251

March 1: Congratulations to Katherine Susa for winning a Weintraub Award! This award is presented annually by the University of Washington to recognize outstanding research by graduate students internationally. It is also an oppotunity to highlight her recent paper in Science:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/300/tab-article-info.

Check out Katherine's paper on CD81 and its binding partner CD19 here - https://elifesciences.org/articles/52337

February 2020 - Welcome, Lena Tveriakhina, to our Lab!

November: Sanchez's paper "Extension of the Notch intracellular domain ankyrin repeat stack by NRARP promotes feedback inhibition of Notch signaling" published in Science Signaling!

October: Khal Hentz-Gabriel joins the laboratory.

August: Congratulations to Sanchez Jarrett, who successfully defended his dissertation!

June: Congratulations to Mark Andrews, lab technician, who left to attend Medical School!

April: Drew's manuscript "A Flow-Extension Tethered Particle Motion Assay for Single-Molecule Proteolysis" published in Biochemistry and makes the cover!

Julia Rogers Paper "Bispecific Forkhead transcription factor FoxN3 recognizes two distinct motifs with different DNA shapes" published in Molecular Cell!

January:  Ruili Cao joins the laboratory.

October: Jonathan's paper published in Nature Communications!

June 1: Julia Rogers joins the lab!

April: Steve elected to the Association of American Physicians!

December: Tom Seegar Discusses ADAM10 https://hms.harvard.edu/news/safety-scissors

December: Tom Seegar's paper on ADAM10 now in Cell! http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867417313235?via%3...

November: Elif Kamber joins the Blacklow Lab!

October: Colin Lipper Joins the Blacklow Lab!

August: Steve receives a seven-year Oustanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute!

May: Brian McMillan's paper on ESCRT III - Lgd complexes now in Cell Reports: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124717306514?via%3...

May: Aster-Blacklow collaboration featuring Kelly Arnett's work published in Science Signaling: http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/10/477/eaag1598

February: Binqian Guo selected for a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society fellowship!

February: Izabela Durzynska's STK40 manuscript published in Structure!

November: Brandon Zimmerman's structure of CD81 Published in Cell!

October: Emily Egan joins the Blacklow and Adelman Labs!

August: Brian McMillan's paper on Shrub published in Cell Reports!

July: Vidyasiri Vemulapalli joins the Blacklow Lab!

May: Alumna Wendy Gordon named Pew Scholar!!

July: Andrew Drabek joins the Blacklow Lab as a graduate student!

Wendy Gordon accepts a job as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota.

Steve named Chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology.