News and Highlights

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Jennifer Brodbelt Receives 2017 ANACHEM Award

  Professor Jennifer Brodbelt is the recipient of the 2017 ANACHEM Award. The ANACHEM Award was established in 1953 and is presented annually to an outstanding analytical chemist based on activities in teaching, research, administration or other activity which has advanced the art and science of the field.  As the winner, s...

Friday, 27 January 2017

Michael Rose Receives Ed Stiefel Young Investigator Award

Assistant Professor Michael Rose is the recipient of the Ed Stiefel Young Investigator Award and corresponding named lecture presented at the Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference (MIB-GRC). The MIB-GRC is the pre-eminent arena for high-profile research in bio-inorganic chemistry. The award honors the memory of Dr. Ed Sti...

Friday, 16 December 2016

Que Research Featured in Discover Magazine's Top Stories of 2016

Emily Que's postdoctoral research at Northwestern University is featured at number 47 in Discover Magazine's 100 Top Stories of 2016.  Zinc Spark   In 2014, Que's postdoctoral research with Professors Tom O'Halloran and Teresa Woodruff focused on imaging and quantifying zinc in mouse eggs during fer...

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Carlos Baiz Receives CNS Catalyst Grant

Assistant Professor Carlos Baiz and Professor Richard Aldrich (Department of Neuroscience) are recipients of the CNS Catalyst Grant for their project, "Investigating Protein Conformational Dynamics with IR Spectroscopy."  The purpose of this project is to study protein conformational changes induced by ion binding. Ultrafast 2D IR spectroscopy...

Tuesday, 08 November 2016

Eberlin Research Published in Cancer Research

Livia Eberlin's research group recently published a paper in the journal Cancer Research.  The manuscript describes the unprecedented discovery of a diagnostic lipid signature of oncocytic thyroid tumors characterized by an aberrant abundance and diversity of cardiolipin molecules, including several oxidized species. The authors show that bot...