Editor’s note: A physicist who switched fields on a hunch at 25 and went on to build a way to see the genome fold inside a single cell, Yale’s Steven Wang talks about cooling off before chasing big ideas, the six-month rule for shelving a …
Image and words by Umayeer Milky. These poems began in a season of exhaustion. No one tells you how studying for qualifying exams rearranges your sense of time. It is a threshold that doesn’t look like one. While you’re inside it, the days stretch and …
Header image: BCH2101 class of 2025 Written by Raabez Ahmad and Renee Jing You’ve made it! Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto. If you’re feeling a bit of anxiety and uncertainty, fear not – this is a completely normal response …
Interview by Kate Jiang In this new series of Transcripts, we challenge the professors in the biochemistry department with 20 rapid-fire questions, a parody of the 73-question shows with the number of questions corresponding to the number of amino acids. The first installment of the …
Header: PhD student Nick Silver explains the ELISA to students. Written by Grace Parish On Saturday, April 26, the Biochemistry Graduate Student Union (BGSU) hosted its highly anticipated annual Biochemistry Day. Biochemistry Day is a public outreach event designed to engage high school students from …
Written by Shelley He On May 29th, 2024 we had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. Asma Hatoum-Aslan, an associate professor of microbiology and principal investigator at the University of Illinois. The work conducted by Dr. Hatoum-Aslan centers on the issue of infectious diseases, an …
Written by Kate Jiang Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein is a Professor of Neurology at John Hopkins University and the Director of the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research. On March 27th, 2024, Dr. Rothstein was invited to give a Connell lecture about the role of nuclear …
Written by Nour Bazzi In the early stages of our careers, we encounter challenges that are entirely new to us. During these times, we naturally seek guidance from those who have successfully navigated similar situations. In doing so, we can selectively adopt the tools and …
Written by Huong Nguyen Photo courtesy of the Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington Dr. David Baker is a professor at the University of Washington, where he is also the founder and director of the Institute of Protein Design. On top of that, he …
