Together with Livia Tenuta from the UM School of Dentistry, we demonstrated that dental pathogens are remarkably sensitive to fluoride accumulation. Congratulations to first author Aditya Banerjee and co-authors from the Stockbridge lab: first author Aditya Banerjee, and co-authors Chia-Yu Kang, Minjun An, and former tech Ben Koff!

Kemal will be starting a PhD program this fall. Way to go, Kemal!

This prestigious award honors Chia-Yu’s research achievements as a graduate student. Congratulations, Chia-Yu.

Rachel’s paper, “Transport of metformin metabolites by guanidinium exporters of the small multidrug resistance family” just came out in the Journal of General Physiology. JGP wrote a commentary on her work, and her structure was featured on the cover! Congratulations to co-authors Kemal and Trev as well!

The Stockbridge lab hosted a PhD defense double header in October. Congratulations to our two newly minted PhDs, Rachael Lucero and Olive Burata.

Kemal was one of six winners of the Biophysical Society’s Undergraduate Poster Award Competition. Great job, Kemal!

Congratulations to Achala Chittor for being awarded funding from the Molecular Mechanisms in Microbial Pathogenesis training program!

A big congratulations to Chris Macdonald for winning the Biophysics Program’s annual Krimm Exceptional Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Complexity in the Membrane: The Fluc Family of Fluoride Channels and Small Multidrug Resistance Family of Transporters as Models for Understanding Membrane Protein Structural and Functional Evolution”!