Faculty Highlights
Academic Year 2026-2027
The Kao lab and the Romero lab recently had a paper accepted to Nature.com! Former graduate student Bradley Pedro, OCMS student Yuqi Guo, and undergraduate student Kiara Rogers are also co-authors on the paper.
Professor Catherine Freudenreich, former graduate student Jaylee Boer, and current graduate student Sara Crippen recently published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research titled "Cruciform-forming AT/TA repeats are acted upon by structure-selective endonucleases and Rad51 prior to repositioning to the nuclear periphery for repair".
The Wolfe lab is helping cheesemakers understand and manage an emerging fungal threat to artisan cheese.Their paper on this fungus was featured in The Scientist!