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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · 5d

It was a pleasure to host these speakers for our 2025 #Postdoc Rising Stars event! Great science and terrific symposium. @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · 7d

Very excited to welcome these #postdoc speakers to our annual @utah.edu Rising Stars Symposium cohosted by @uofubiochem.bsky.social and Med Chem @uuhsresearch.bsky.social with keynote address by Ryan Watts at Denali

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · 28d

We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Postdoctoral Rising Stars Symposium cohosted @uofuhealth.bsky.social by @uofubiochem.bsky.social and MedChem with keynote by Ryan Watts at Denali Therapeutics

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congratulations to lab members Aldo García-Guerrero and Erica Hastings for winning the @uofubiochem.bsky.social Evelyn Bruenger and Marjorie Riches Gunn Awards for Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Research Excellence, respectively! #malaria @uofutahcihd.bsky.social @uuhsresearch.bsky.social

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · May 15

Happening today! @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social @parasitesrule.org #malaria #biophysics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry @uofubiochem.bsky.social · May 8

Congrats to our chair, Wes Sundquist, on being awarded the Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award for work on lenacapavir!

American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org · May 8

Yvette Raphael, Gilead Sciences—with special recognition of Moupali Das—and Wesley Sundquist have been awarded the Mani L. Bhaumik Breakthrough of the Year Award for their work on HIV drug lenacapavir. www.aaas.org/news/road-le...

Promotional image for AAAS/Science, congratulating the winners of the Mani L. Bhaumik of the Year Award. Featured are three award recipients, each in individual portraits, with names and affiliations displayed: Yvette Raphael, Wesely I. Sundquist, and Gilead Sciences' Merdad Parsey & Kripa Murali.

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thanks, Sabrina. I've been fascinated by this motion since I started my postdoc with Dan Goldberg and saw live parasites under the microscope. It was a challenging problem, but Erica and our collaborators brought together an incisive dissection of this motion, with an unexpected mechanism.

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · Apr 30

I'll ask Erica to send you the zoom link.

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · Apr 28

It's an honor to announce the upcoming PhD thesis defense of Erica Hastings, who will present her work on #malaria parasites and the biophysics of hemozoin motion @uofubiochem.bsky.social ky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social
@parasitesrule.org

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thrilled to announce a new collaborative preprint from PhD student Erica Hastings unraveling the nature and mechanism of fascinating hemozoin crystal motion inside #malaria parasites @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social
@parasitesrule.org
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.25.650681v1

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · Apr 11

Thanks to @pubs.acs.org for featuring our work on cyt c biogenesis in #malaria parasites on the front cover!
@uofubiochem.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

ACS Infectious Diseases

Predicted structure of the key complex from malaria parasites that attaches heme to mitochondrial cytochrome c to support the critical function of the electron transport chain. This structure was predicted using the AlphaFold 3 server and rendered using PyMOL. View the article.

pubs.acs.org

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Paul Sigala @sigalalab.bsky.social · Mar 21

Very proud of PhD student Erica Hastings who gave a talk and poster at the American Physical Society meeting on collaborative work to understand hemozoin crystal motion in #malaria parasites @uofubiochem.bsky.social @uofutahcihd.bsky.social @bwfund.bsky.social Paper coming soon!

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