NEWS
2024
04/26/2024: Gabe’s second paper on lasso peptides and our quest to find transferable folding reaction coordinates Also on Twitter/X Here
4/25/2024: Professor Swanson talks with Katie Mullaly and Lynn Peek from Cool Science Radio about Methanotrophic Bioreactors
02/21/2024: Lasso Peptides make the cover of JACS. UofU story
02/20/2024: Lidstrom Group featured for Mission to Mitigate Methane
02/15/2024: Swanson Group attends Bezos Earth Fund Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Removal
02/06/2024: Jessica Swanson welcomed into 2024 class of Cottrell Scholars
01/07/2024: Swanson Group featured in local news: Not a mythical creature, but maybe a planet saver: methanotrophs and climate change
01/04/2024: Jay Braun presents his research to biochemistry department RIP
2023
12/7/2023: Pooja Rao presents 3rd Year research proposal
12/4/2023: Swanson Group’s Methane Mitigation Research featured in @THEU:
12/4/2023: Wilkes Center Podcast features Swanson Group’s Methane Research:
12/3/2023: Hannah Burton begins hosting the “Mad Scientist” Pre-K program at the Salt Lake County Library – Whitmore
11/21/2023: Pooja Rao welcomes BYU students
11/21/2023: Professor Swanson Seminar @ University of Wisconsin Madison
11/10/2023: Maya Rabbitt presents current undergraduate thesis to faculty and colleagues
11/9/2023: Josh Peterson presents 2nd Year Seminar
10/17/2023: Dr. Swanson speaks at National Academy workshop Methane Removal from Air: https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/40025_10-2023_atmospheric-methane-removal-needs-challenges-and-opportunities
09/12/2023: Gabe da Hora presents a group poster at Annual Bioscience Symposium. Title: Biophysics via Multiscale Molecular Modeling and Simulations (https://bioscience.utah.edu/events/bioscience_symposium/index.php)
09/12/2023: Hannah Burton speaks at Annual Bioscience Symposium.
Title: Predicting Protein Behavior with an MKM.
(https://bioscience.utah.edu/events/bioscience_symposium/index.php)
09/2023: Swanson, Lidstrom, Rosenzweig funded by the Carbon Research Technology Foundation
Social Media Links:
Carbon Technology Research Foundation | CtrfoundationUk/status
09/2023: Professor Swanson presents at EMBO Lipid Droplets: Metabolic Hubs in Health and Disease Conference (Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain)
08/2023: Professor Swanson presents at Biophysical Society: Proton Reactions: From Basic Science to Biomedical Applications (Tahoe, CA)
08/17/2023: Gabe da Hora delivers an oral presentation on ACS 2023 Fall. Title: Buruli Ulcer Disease: Unveiling Toxin Pathogenicity through Enhanced Sampling Simulations – https://acs.digitellinc.com/sessions/581630/view
07/2023: John Nguyen and Gabe da Hora publish second mycolactone paper in Toxins: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/15/8/486
06/2023: Hannah Burton and Gabe da Hora are selected to be Chemistry NSF-REU Student Mentors.
04/24/2023: Pooja Rao presents 2nd Year oral exam
04/20/2023: Tyler Southam receives the Craig & Linda Lee Curie Club Graduate Teaching Award
04/21/2023: Gabe da Hora was interviewed for the Postdoc Highlights page from the Department of Chemistry: https://chem.utah.edu/Postdocs/gabecostaalvernidahora.php
03/25/2023: Hannah Burton gives a presentation at the UofU Mathematical Biology Seminar.
Title: Development of the Multiscale Kinetic Model to describe non-steady-state conditions
03/21/2023: Hannah Burton gives a presentation and receives award for best presenter at the 2023 Graduate Research Symposium – UofU Chemistry.
Title: Multiscale Kinetic modeling explains disparate ion-flux with transmembrane potential.
03/21/2023: Gabe da Hora gives a keynote presentation at the 2023 Graduate Research Conference – UofU Chemistry. Title: Buruli Ulcer Disease: Tracking Toxin Pathogenicity with Enhanced Sampling Simulations
01/21/2023: Hannah presents 3rd year research proposal
2022
11/15/2022: Pooja Rao presents 2nd Year Seminar
11/2022: Professor Swanson presents at Lipids at Wayne State
11/2022: Gabe da Hora and John Nguyen publish first mycolactone paper in Biophysical Journal: https://www.cell.com/biophysj/pdf/S0006-3495(22)00857-8.pdf
10/10/2022: Tyler Southam presents 3rd year research proposal
09/2022: Hannah Burton receives NSF-GRFP Honorable mention.
(https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/newsroom/news/2022/04/nsf-grfp)
09/2022: Jay Braun has his work on sterol ester-rich lipid droplets published in Membranes: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/12/10/949
08/2022: Pooja Rao selected for an Honorable Mention in the PITCH (Program for Interdisciplinary Training in CHemical Biology) Competition
07/2022: Hannah Burton Hosts the University of Utah Youth Chemistry Camp
06/2022: Professor Swanson presents at FASEB Lipid Droplets Conference (Ashville, NC)
06/2022: Professor Swanson presents at Molecular Biophysics of Membranes (Tahoe, CA)
06/2022: Professor Swanson presents at Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins: Challenges for Theory and Experiment (Santa Fe, NM)
05/2022: Professor Swanson presents at ACS (San Diego, CA)
04/08/2022: Hannah Burton, Jay Braun and John Nguyen present a poster at the UofU Chemistry Recruiting Poster Session.
Title: Probing the impact of the membrane on the mechanism of transport.
04/22/2022: Tyler Southam presents 3rd year oral exam
03/2022: Hannah Burton presents 3rd year oral exam
02/25/2022;: Gabe da Hora and Myongin Oh receive the Outstanding Evaluator Award at the 2022 Graduate Research Conference – UofU Chemistry
02/23/2022: Hannah Burton presents at the 2022 Graduate Research Conference – UofU Chemistry
Title: Differentiating transmembrane forces for predictive kinetic analysis
05/2022: Professor Swanson presents at Biophysical Society Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
01/01/2022: Hannah Burton accepts role as Coordinator for Henry Eyring Theoretical Chemistry Seminar
2022
11/2022: Professor Swanson presents at Lipids at Wayne State
06/2022: Professor Swanson presents at FASEB Lipid Droplets Conference (Ashville, NC)
06/2022: Professor Swanson presents at Molecular Biophysics of Membranes (Tahoe, CA)
06/2022: Professor Swanson presents at Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins: Challenges for Theory and Experiment (Santa Fe, NM)
05/2022: Professor Swanson presents at ACS (San Diego, CA)
02/25/2022;: Gabe da Hora and Myongin Oh receive the Outstanding Evaluator Award at the 2022 Graduate Research Conference – UofU Chemistry
05/2022: Professor Swanson presents at Biophysical Society Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
2021
11/2021: Hannah Burton presents 2nd Year Seminar
10/18/2021: Tyler Southam presents 2nd Year Seminar
10/2021: John Nguyen presents 3rd year research proposal
06/24/2021: Hannah Burton presents at Telluride Workshop on Proton Transfer in Biology.
Title: Voltage dependent simulations of Cl-/H+ exchange in ClC
04/2021: John Nguyen presents 3rd Year oral exam
2020
09/07/2020: Gabe da Hora receives 2nd Best Poster Award in the ChemTheo category from the LatinXChemTwitter Conference. Title: Using Metadynamics Simulations to Understand Mycolactone Toxin Membrane Permeation
06/2020: John Nguyen presents 2nd Year Seminar