Aug 2022: Chaoxing, Kathleen, Wenxin, Wenyan, and Dr. Zhao attended the American Chemical Society 2022 Fall Meeting in Chicago. Congratulations to Kathleen for winning the poster presentation awards and to Wenxin for winning the travel awards! Thanks to ACS TOXI for the generous support!

We welcome graduate students, Ching-Hsin Yang, Yu Hsuan Chen, and Jacob Perkins!

Apr 2020, Dr. Chaoxing Liu joining us as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome, Chaoxing!

Check out our recent publications on TFAM, mitochondrial DNA damage, and more!

Aug 2019, the Zhao lab officially relocated to the University of California, Riverside!

We congratulate our group members for their recent career moves

Daniel Oppong: Ph.D. program at Wayne State University

Riley Boyd: MD program at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University

Oliver Yockey: MD Program at Central Michigan University

Ashley Keating: MD Program at MSU Medical School

Christian Bonzheim: MD Program at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine

Nicholas Morse: DMD Program at the School of Dentistry of University of Detroit Mercy

Adam Ouellette: MD Program at the Hofstra University School of Medicine

Sep 2018, Congratulations to the team on the new MIRA (R35) grant focused on mitochondrial DNA degradation!

Jun 2018, Riley, Wenyan, and Dr. Zhao presented at the UMDF annual conference. Congratulations to Wenyan on winning the poster presentation award!

May 2017, Oliver Yockey won the 2017 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award from Dept of Chem & Biochem of CMU. Congratulations!

Mar 2017, Dr. Zhao received the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity of CMU. As of Oct 2016, our laboratory has moved to the brand new Biosciences building. Check out the facilities here!

Summer 2016: We welcome Riley Boyd, a summer visiting undergraduate student from Kalamazoo College.

Oliver Yockey, an undergraduate researcher in our lab, has been selected as one of the 2016 Summer Scholars of CMU. He will be supported by ORGS to conduct research over the summer in the Zhao lab. Congrats, Oliver!

Aug 2015, Wenyan and Dr. Zhao presented our recent data at the Division of Chemical Toxicology of American Chemical Society Meeting in Boston. Many thanks to the division of Chemical Toxicology for the Travel Award to Wenyan. 2015, Adam, Chenwu, Wenyan and Dr. Zhao presented at the Midwest DNA Repair Symposium

Mar 2015, Adam was selected as one of this year’s two winners of the College of Science and Technology Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Research. Congratulations!

Jan 2015, Our paper titled “Kinetic and Structural Mechanisms of (5’S)-8,5’-Cyclo-2’-deoxyguanosine-Induced DNA Replication Stalling” has been published in Biochemistry!

Jan 2015, Tianzuo Xu joined us as an MS student.

Nov 2014, Chenwu Yang joined us as a Ph.D. student.

Sep 2014, Nick Morse and Christian Bonzheim joined the lab as undergraduate research assistants.

Jun 2014, Adam Ouellette joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant focusing on the kinetic and structural investigations of human cystathionine gamma-lyase.

May 2014, Storm Shriver successfully completed his thesis project. The Sulfolobus solfataricus p2 DNA polymerase IV (Dpo4) he purified resulted in two high resolution crystal structures of Dpo4-DNA complexes.

Mar 2014, Dr. Wenyan Xu joined us as a postdoctoral fellow. Wenyan’s project is to elucidate the kinetic and structural mechanisms of error-prone and error-free DNA replications induced by oxidative DNA damages.

Dec 2013, Storm Shriver joined us as a CHM491 student to complete his B.S. thesis on “Protein Expression and Purification of Sulfolobus solfataricus p2 DNA polymerase IV (Dpo4)”.

Oct 2013, Claire Olson joined us as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome, Claire!

Oct 2013, Mitch Thompson joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome!

Sep 2013, Daniel Kool, MS student joined the lab. Welcome, Dan!

Aug 2013, Dr. Zhao started his position at CMU.

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