The next Seattle Ubiquitin Research Group meeting will be held on Thursday January 17th, 2017. This meeting will be held in Bioengineering N130 at 5:30 pm.
“Exploring signal coordination of ubiquitin-like modifiers
through the study of a yeast SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase”
Michelle Oeser
Gardner Lab, UW Department of Pharmacology
“Structural investigation of a novel E2-substrate interaction”
Vinny Vittal
Klevit Lab, UW Department of Biochemistry
BEER and pizza will be served.





Current laboratory member and Ph.D candidate Jonathan Pruneda was officially granted the 2012 Young Scientist Award for best talk given by a graduate student/post-doc at the bi-annual Saxtons River, Vermont FASEB Ubiquitin conference. The Young Scientist Award is granted to individuals early in their careers to acknowledge and promote continued excellence within the field of scientific research. Jonathan was recognized for his presentation, “Working outside the box: A non-canonical role of E2~Ub conjugates in the activation of bacterial effector protein OspG.”