Check out our latest papers!
We have been busy! Check out our latest papers and reviews: Congratulations to graduate students Kerry McPherson, Gabi Valles and Sam Mahdi on their first author papers!!! USP7 Is a Master Regulator of Genome Stability. Structure-Based Drug Design of Phenazopyridine Derivatives as Inhibitors of Rev1 Interactions in Translesion Synthesis. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectral data of […]
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Congratulation Gabrielle Valles, PhD!

Happy USP7 Valentine’s

Excellent collaboration with the Woodgate lab is now online.
Check it out: DNA Polymerase ι Interacts with Both the TRAF-like and UBL1-2 Domains of USP7 Nuclear magnetic resonance spectral data of the USP7 TRAF and UBL1-2 domains in complex with DNA polymerase ι peptides
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Congrats to Kerry on her first author paper!
Structure‐Based Drug Design of Phenazopyridine Derivatives as Inhibitors of Rev1 Interactions in Translesion Synthesis https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cmdc.202000893
[Read More]Irina Bezsonova won 2019 Osborn Award for Excellence in Biomedical Science Graduate Teaching.
The Osborn Award for Excellence in Biomedical Science Graduate Teaching was established by the UConn Health Graduate School in honor of Dr. Mary Jane Osborn (1927-2019). Dr. Osborn was a founding faculty member of the UConn School of Medicine who studied the biochemistry and physiology of bacteria and served as Chair of the Department of Microbiology (1980-2002). She was also a member […]
[Read More]Welcome Emilie Korchak!
Emilie is doing her Fall rotation in Bezsonova lab working on disease causing mutations of USP7 enzyme.
[Read More]Congrats to Gabi Valles for winning the 2020 UConn Health Biomedical Science Graduate Student Mentorship Award!
UConn Health Biomedical Science Graduate Student Mentorship Award for 2020! This award honors a student who has made sustained and outstanding contributions in mentoring activities during his or her studies in the program that improve graduate student life and further the educational mission of the university or the community.
[Read More]Congrats to Alex Rizzo (Korzhnev lab) for winning the Henderson Prize for outstanding Ph.D. thesis in biomedical science!
This prize was established in memory of Edward G. Henderson, Ph.D., a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacology from 1968 to 1997. Dr. Henderson is remembered for his commitment to graduate education and his dedication to the supervision of graduate students. Students are eligible if they complete their degree from the August before through […]
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