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Kerri Beth Boggs
Articles by Kerri Beth Boggs
Research Spotlight
Understanding the impact of Type 1 diabetes susceptibility genes
Sept. 17, 2020
Starting in eighth grade, a series of mentors who saw something special in Sharifa Love–Rutledge helped her stay on the path to being a researcher — and becoming a mentor to others.
Award
Jura is inspired by her grandmother, a ‘true pioneer’
May 21, 2020
This ASBMB award winner is an associate professor at UCSF who aims to understand how cells communicate with each other and the environment.
Annual Meeting
Selbach seeks the science behind the magic
March 4, 2020
Matthias Selbach, a professor at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, uses proteomics to analyze protein synthesis and decay as well as protein–protein interactions.
Research Spotlight
Understanding how arsenic changes chromatin and causes cancer
Jan. 23, 2020
Yvonne Fondufe–Mittendorf, who took a winding path from the Republic of Cameroon to the bluegrass of Kentucky, calls herself “an academic tourist.”
Award
Fierke works as a catalyst for change
Nov. 1, 2019
She won the ASBMB's 2020/2021 Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry.
Annual Meeting
Searching for drugs on the ocean floor
Oct. 1, 2019
Paul Jensen of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego searches the ocean floor with his team for marine microbes that can be developed into medical treatments.
Student Chapters
Student chapter president’s hard work pays off
Aug. 1, 2019
After the ASBMB Student Chapter at the University of Texas at Dallas won a grant to host a regional conference, Anna Fiedler and her fellow chapter members faced the challenge of planning the event.
Journal News
From the journals: August 2019
Aug. 1, 2019
Curbing the neurotoxic effects of beta-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s. Using proteomics to find targets to treat leishmaniasis, a sometimes-deadly parasitic disease. Turning white fat cells brite to treat obesity. Read about this work and more.
What I Wish People Understood
What I wish people understood about science at a small college
June 1, 2019
Now a grad student in biochemistry at the University of Kentucky, Kerri Beth Slaughter explains how a quiet student can come out of her shell with the help of creative professors and Play-Doh.
Journal News
From the journals: May 2019
May 1, 2019
Volatile organic compounds released by herbivore-infested plants. Protein phosphorylation in sperm development. Sphingosine in mitochondrial dysfunction after traumatic brain injury. Read about these and other papers in ASBMB journals.
Award
Gronenborn honored for advances in NMR spectroscopy
April 1, 2019
Angela Gronenborn combines nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with biophysics, biochemistry and chemistry in her investigation of cellular processes at the molecular and cellular level to understand human disease.
Award
Soldati–Favre honored for research on Toxoplasma gondii
April 1, 2019
Dominique Soldati-Favre studies intracellular parasites that cause diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidiosis and coccidiosis to understand how they bypass biological barriers during invasion. In Toxoplasma, her group investigates th…
Award
Using crystallography to answer questions of structure and function
March 1, 2019
A JBC/Tabor award winner Caroline Soliman works in Paul Ramsland's lab at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia.
Journal News
From the journals: February 2019
Feb. 1, 2019
How do plants survive in fluctuating temperatures? Why do some of infection-fighting molecules block viruses from entering cells, while others interfere with viral replication? How does a bacterium’s spore coating help it resist antibiotics?
Student Chapters
Chapter president inspired by mother’s diagnosis
Dec. 1, 2018
When she learned that her mother had colon cancer, Amanda Duplan, now a senior at Grand View University in Iowa, decided to get involved in research so she could study the underlying causes of disease.
Journal News
From the journals: November 2018
Nov. 1, 2018
Using mass spectrometry to learn how a flexible fish evolved. Finding the anti-addictive enzyme in an African shrub. Tracing how cholesterol contributes to macular degeneration. Read about this research and more in our roundup of recent papers fro…
Student Chapters
Chapter president works to build community
Sept. 1, 2018
Kelly Budge founded an ASBMB chapter for undergraduates to connect biology and chemistry students across the Goucher College campus.