News

June 2025: Wantae and Mo’s paper in collaboration with Chang lab from NC State is published on ACS Catalysis today. They are co first authors on this paper and this is also Wantae’s first corresponding author paper. Congrats!

April 2025: Congratulations to Jessie Zhang was selected as a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology!

February 2025: Our staff scientist, Svetlana Panina, found her dream job!

February 2025: Welcome our new chem engineer student Mars Yu joining the lab.

November 2024: Yvette receives her PhD degree. Congrats, Dr. Moreno! Yvette’s paper published in Science Advance and Qian and Wantae’s paper published in Nature Communication.

November 2024: Wantae receives his PhD degree. Congrats, Dr. Kim! Wantae’s EM paper is the cover of PNAS Nov issue.

April 2024: Our Glioblastoma study of transcription factor REST and its inhibitor is published in BMC Biology. Svetlana really lifted weight in this project. Congratulations to all the co-authors: Svetlana, Qian, Haley, Daniel, and Wanjie!

March 2024: Our first EM structures are accepted in PNAS. Great work, Wantae!

February 2024: Welcome new Zhang Lab member Kangsam Kim!

January 2024: Haley’s review article “Collaborators or competitors: the communication between RNA polymerase II and the nucleosome during eukaryotic transcription” is online.

June 2023: Graduate student Mo Guo presents at the Texas Mechanism Meeting.

May 2023: Mukesh receives his PhD degree. Congrats, Dr. Kumar!

April 2023: Wendy makes a new start with her retirement life.

March 2023: Dr. Jessie Zhang chairs theme “protein machines and disorderness” in Annual Meeting for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Seattle.