Sharon Walker selected for Fulbright Fellowship

 Sharon Walker, interim dean of the Bourns College of Engineering and ETOX faculty member, has been selected to conduct research into desalination and water treatment at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.  More information on her project and the Fulbright program can be found in this UCR Today article.  We congratulate Sharon on this recognition and wish her the best in her research. {The photo is from UCR's 2014 Living the Promise brochure.}

Crystal structure of DNMT3A solved by ETOX team

A research team lead by Jukui Song, a professor in the Biochemistry department and an Environmental Toxicology faculty member, has solved the crystal structure of DNMT3A, a key enzyme involved in de novo DNA methylation.  The study has been recently published in the journal Nature.  Other members of the team include Yinsheng Wang, Director of the ETOX program, Linfeng Gao, current ETOX student, and Pengcheng Wang, Yang Yu and Shuo Liu, recent ETOX graduates.  More information can be found in an article in UCR Today or in the Nature article itself.  Our congratulations to Dr. Song and those involved in the project for this impressive accomplishment. [The image above is from the UCR Today article.]

Frances Sladek co-principal investigator on new Keck Foundation grant

Associate Dean and ETOX faculty member Frances Sladek is a co-principal investigator on a new Keck Foundation grant to study that mechanism by which estrogen hormones enter cells.  Together with the principal investigator Sachiko Haga-Yamanaka and co-principal investigator Naoki Yamanaka, Professor Sladek plans to investigate the potential of membrane transport proteins in the uptake of hormones.  More information can be found on the UCR Today website.  We wish Frances, Sachiko and Naoki success in their studies.  [The photo is from the UCR Today article and was taken by Iqbal Pittalwala.]