Lab news

October 2024

  • Postdoctoral fellow Marissa Berry joins the group. Welcome, Marissa!

September 2024

  • Oriana gives a talk at the 13th International Copper Meeting in Sorrento, Italy.
  • MB&B graduate student Samantha Palermo joins the group for a Fall semester rotation. Welcome, Sam!
  • Undergraduates Furuzon Atobekova and Abigail Oduro join the group. Welcome, Furuzon & Abby!

August 2024

  • Oriana gives a talk at the annual American Crystallographic Association Meeting in Denver, CO.

July 2024

Pre-Wesleyan

May 2024

  • Nina graduates. Congratulations & good luck!
  • Yuri gives a talk and presents a poster at FCBIS. Great job!
Farewell lunch with Fisher lab 1.0.

February 2024

  • Yuri and Dia’s paper on the role of the conserved tryptophan in YcnI is published in J Inorg Biochem. Read it here!

September 2023

  • The lab is awarded an NIH R35 MIRA award to pursue our structure-directed studies on bacterial transcriptional regulation!

August 2023

  • Oriana gives a talk & Jess presents a poster and a flash talk at the Cell Biology of Metals GRC.
  • Sam & Elisa present posters on their summer research. Great job!
Celebrating a successful BOUNDS program + summer birthdays!
End-of-summer poster session presenters + mentors.

July 2023

  • Dia and Yuri present posters on their research at the 2023 ACA Meeting. Well done!
Fisher lab reunion at ACA
Yuri’s poster presentation
Dia’s poster presentation 

May 2023

  • Dia, Emerald, David, and Mu all graduate. Congratulations and good luck!
End of semester bowling: Team Undergrads!
Mu & Yuri, the bowling champions of the lab!

August 2022

  • Jing’s review article on cupredoxin domains is published in the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. Read it here!
  • David, Dia, and Emerald all present posters at STEM-SI Research Day. Great job!

May 2022

  • Jing successfully defends her senior honors thesis. Congratulations!

April 2022

  • Dia receives a CAS Undergraduate Research Grant and a Langer-Simon Award. Congratulations!

November 2021

  • Jing receives a CAS Undergraduate Research Grant. Congratulations!

September 2021

  • The lab has been awarded a LEAPS-MPS grant from the NSF!

August 2021

  • Our paper on YcnI has been published in J Biol Chem. Read it here!
  • Jing presents a poster on her summer research for STEM-SI. Great job, Jing!
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March 2021

  • Jing is awarded a 2021 summer research assistantship from Lehigh’s STEM-SI program. Congratulations, Jing!
  • Oriana gives a “Virtual Bite of Science” talk to PA STEM teachers.