Always wonderful to start the week with 'Paper Accepted'. Woo Hoo....
More details when everything is approved for release!

The UIowa Genetics Graduate Program Graduate Program is having their annual retreat public talk on Friday, Sept. 22 at 4pm in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101), Biology Building East (BBE). The keynote speaker is Susan Rosenberg, Ben F. Love Chair in Cancer Research, Baylor College of Medicine.

📢🔥Preprint from the lab from Beth Osia, PhD RAD52 and ERCC6L/PICH have a compensatory relationship for genome stability in mitosis. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Glycidamide-induced hypermutation in yeast single-stranded DNA reveals a ubiquitous clock-like mutational motif in humans academic.oup.com/nar/article/do…
Our paper is out today. Many thanks to all the team. Title describes main findings.

“Chaos is why humans exist”
#themanwhofelltoearth

Congratulations ⁦Jaigeeth Devershetty⁩ !!! He brings home the best poster award and to our total shock was also awarded the Emerging New Scientist award by ⁦Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society⁩. All in recognition of his work on structural studies of Rad52 and HR! ⁦SLU-SOM Biochemistry & Molecular Biology⁩

Congrats Ben Ben Ryan for winning best oral presentation at the Midwest DNA repair meeting! 🎉👏

BIR team

We were waiting for 3 years, and it is already over ...Midwest DNA repair meeting was a lot of fun!
Thank you Maria, Sarit and Becky
for organizing! Thank you Doug, Sharon and Eric for amazing Keynote talks!
And I am also thankful to my lab for being great hosts!

Of course …..who else except Eric Greene

Thanks to Maria Spies, PhD (she/her) and Ashley Spies for generously hosting all the PIs at her home for the evening. The Midwest DNA repair meeting is off to a splendid start with an Uber cool meet and greet!!! Wonderful to see so many familiar faces, friends, and colleagues!!

#DNArepair rocks in the Midwest.
Ready to start our 22nd DNA Repair Symposium

We are delighted to celebrate Michael Lichten's Michael Lichten induction into the National Academy of Sciences! This incredible honor is a testament to his remarkable achievements in science and we are proud to have him as part of our community. Congratulations, Michael!

Congratulations, Michael Lichten!!

Unexpected: antioxidants enable mutagenesis and cytotoxicity of an oxidant.
Our paper just out -
Changes in metabolic landscapes shape divergent but distinct mutational signatures and cytotoxic consequences of redox stress academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Congrats to former Integrated Biology PhD student, Beth Osia, PhD, on her F32 Award from National Cancer Institute!

Seeing is believing!🤩
Just received the Notice of Award from NCI for my F32 proposal! Very excited to continue studying Rad52 synthetic lethal interactions with JStarkLab at City of Hope Prof Ed: Ph.D. & Master Programs 🥳

Great job by UIowa Genetics Graduate Program graduate student, Lindsey Snyder, co-first author, and Biology professors Bin Z. He and Jan Fassler on their publication in GENETICS!