Honored to share that our article “Carbohydrate Deacetylase Unique to Gut Microbe Bacteroides Reveals Atypical Structure” was selected for an ACS Publications special issue celebrating Women and Girls in Science Day 2025! Still feeling proud and smiling at this email which informed us of the paper’s selection: “Congratulations! We looked through a large number of Read more about Our BoPDA Paper chosen for ACS Journals Special Issue![…]

Two papers from work done in Fall 2023 Protein Crystallography (Bioc/Chem 295) class have been published in the April 2025 issue of Acta Cryst F. LpPDF: https://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2053230X25001876 LpdUTPase: https://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2053230X25001815 Congrats to all the undergraduate co-authors Chi Nguyen ’26, Abigail Tramell ’26, Jordan Norman ’24, Sean Fisher ’25, William Fan ’25, and Krystal Matthews ’25! Special Read more about Two papers on L. pnuemophila proteins accepted for publication (Apr 2025)![…]

Excited to announce that our paper on Bacteroides ovatus polysaccharide deacetylase (BoPDA) was accepted for publication in December 2024, and appears in the January 2025 issue of Biochemistry: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biochem.4c00519! Congrats to all seven Vassar undergraduate co- authors: Lilith A. Schwartz ’22, Jordan O. Norman ’24, Sharika Hasan ’19, Olive E. Adamek ’27, Elisa Dzuong ’27, Read more about BoPDA Paper Accepted for Publication in Biochemistry (Jan 2025)![…]