I was thrilled to be back in Chapel Hill for the annual IRACDA Conference in June 2024. I was invited to be part of the Alumni Panel, as a former SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow. It was overall an excellent experience getting to hear talks about pedagogy and exciting research!
I had a great time at the Bioorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference this past June in Andover NH! It was my 1st time attending one and I was honored to give an invited talk. I spoke about our lab’s work on characterizing pCU1 TraK in the Infectious Diseases session. The science & scientists there were Read more about Dr. McLaughlin Gives Invited Talk at 2024 Bioorganic Gordon Research Conference[…]
Our paper titled: “Structural and functional characterization of FabG4 from Mycolicibacterium smegmatis” was accepted for publication in April 2024 to Acta Crys F! Congrats to student co-first authors Xinping Ran ’22 and Prashit Parikh ’21. Our structure was highlighted on the cover (above) and we were interviewed as part of new initiative: “Interviews with Authors”. Read more about MsFabG4 paper accepted for publication![…]
Our group attended the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) DiscoverBMB Meeting for the first time in San Antonio TX this past March. We were part of a big Vassar College contingent with fifteen students and four professors! I am so very proud of both my students, Maedot Abate and Jordan Norman, who Read more about McLaughlin Lab Attends ASBMB Meeting; Congrats to Jordan Norman ’24 For Her Poster Prize![…]
So excited to tell you about our latest paper published in Plasmid! The analysis of the crystal structure in this paper was completed by Faith Northern VC ’22, 4th in author list, as part of her Vassar College senior biochemistry research! Congrats! Link to paper: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1i8n2,3Mq7BJX Paper summary: We study conjugative plasmid transfer (CPT) as Read more about New paper on pSK41 Cop published in Plasmid[…]
The McLaughlin Lab had two posters at the Vassar URSI Symposium in September this year! Jordan Norman ’24 (left) presented her summer work titled “Structural Characterization of Conjugative Proteins from pCU1 and pSK41”. Jas Kaur ’25 and Vidya Iyengar ’26 (right) presented their work titled “Structural Investigation of Potential Relaxosome Protein from Staphylococcus aureus pSK41″. Read more about URSI Symposium 2023[…]
Very proud of this work we just published in Acta Crystallographia F! The research was done by undergrad students in Dr. McLaughlin’s protein crystallography class in Spring ’23, which is run as a CURE (Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience). Students analyzed an unpublished crystal structure from the @SSGCID, then designed/ran experiments to test function. The first three authors Read more about Protein Crystallography CURE, Publication, Highlighted in Acta Crys F Editorial & Cover![…]
Excited to announce the first paper out of the McLaughlin Lab @Vassar has been published! This work was in collaboration with the SSGCID, and the lead student author is Justas Rodarte VC ’19, who was one of the first students to join the lab. Acta Crysta F: scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S2053230X21001497 PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33620038/
Had the opportunity to talk to @ChemistryWorld about my experience during this time, how it has affected my @Vassar research, teaching, and life in general. -KM From Chemistry World: Protein x-ray crystallographer Krystle McLaughlin talks about lab life on hold, not far from the epicentre of the US coronavirus outbreak: here.
This summer we welcomed three research students, Justas Rodarte ’19 (who is a returning member) and Sharika Hasan ’19 through the Vassar URSI program, and Gabi James ’22 through the DIR program. As of July 1st, we already have some beautiful data- check out Sharika’s our enzyme assay below: