News and Talks
2024 01 09 - First year BMBB PhD student Aspen Hughes started their rotation today -- welcome to the Gordon lab!
2023 08 25 - Congratulations to Dr. Lidia Limón on a successful thesis defense!
2023 07 26/27 - Adam gave a poster presentation about engineering sequence-directed protein-RNA covalent linkage tools at the first ever protein engineering Gordon conference in Rhode Island!
2023 07 21 - Adam gave a talk about protein-RNA covalent bioconjugation and its potential applications at the Genome Writers Guild Conference!
2023 07 10 - Dr. Marcus Kelly gave a successful thesis defense today -- great job!
2023 06 23 - Anthony Howard, an undergraduate student at North Hennepin Community College, started his summer internship today!
2023 04 28 - Matt's paper titled 'RAD-TGTs: high-throughput measurement of cellular mechanotype via rupture and delivery of DNA tension probes' is out in Nature Communications! Congratulations Matt and team!
2023 04 03 - It's Erin's first official day in the lab -- welcome, Erin!
2023 03 02 - It's Natalia's first official day in lab -- welcome, Natalia!
2022 12 29 - Former lab member María's paper, 'Phosphorylation Alters the Mechanical Stiffness of a Model Fragment of the Dystrophin Homologue Utrophin', in the Journal of Biological Chemistry! Congratulations on the second first author, and good luck with your new job!
2022 12 21 - Adam and former lab member Kassidy publish their co-first author manuscript, 'Watson-Crick Base-Pairing Requirements for ssDNA Recognition and Processing in Replication-Initiating HUH Endonucleases', in mBio!
2022 12 08 - Erin gave an excellent end-of-rotation-presentation. We wish her good luck with her next rotation and hope to see her soon!
2022 12 01 - Postdoc María wrapped up her projects and got herself a real job -- congratulations, we will all miss you tremendously.
2022 10 17 - Erin Nolan started her second rotation in the Gordon lab where she'll be exploring tension sensing, protein engineering, and much more -- Welcome Erin!
2022 10 14 - Natalia successfully completed her rotation and gave an excellent summary presentation -- we wish her good luck in her coming rotations and hope to see her soon.
2022 08 29 - Natalia started her fall rotation in the Gordon lab where she will be exploring the intersection of Notch and cellular tension -- welcome Natalia!
2022 07 29 - Adam gave a poster presentation at the Genome Writer's Guild conference here at the University of Minnesota
2022 07 18 - Andrew, Michael, and Wendy are all attending the Notch Gordon Research Conference in Maine where they'll be giving talks and poster presentations about Notch and Notch-adjacent topics
2022 07 06 - Check out this blog post about CRISPR in the clinic by former member of the lab Dr. Eric Aird: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2022/07/making-crispr-hype-more-of-a-reality.html
2022 06 27 - Ethan Ripp started his summer rotation in the Gordon lab -- Welcome Ethan!
2022 06 21 - Wendy, María, and Mike all gave talks at the New Directions muscle biology conference!
2022 06 14 - María's paper, 'Dystrophin missense mutations alter focal adhesion tension and mechanotransduction', is now published in PNAS!
2022 06 06 - Congrats to Matt for passing his preliminary exam and becoming a PhD candidate
2022 06 03 - Undergraduate August (Augie) is heading off to Rutgers for a summer research opportunity in the Khare lab!
2022 06 01 - Adam passed his preliminary exam and is now a PhD candidate
2022 05 31 - Congratulations to Dr. María Paz Ramírez on a successful thesis defense -- we are all immensely proud of you and your achievements
2022 05 25 - Wendy gave an invited talk at the University of Minnesota's annual Chemistry/Biology Interface Training Grant Symposium -- great job!
2022 05 04 - Graduate student María Paz Ramírez recieved the Ross Gortner Award. Congratulations!
2022 05 04 - Graduate students Adam, Matt, and Michael ALL recieve the Victor Bloomfield Graduate Fellowship in Molecular Biophysics