News

10.2020 Transcription factors may inadvertently lock in DNA mistakes

01.2020 Academy honors 15 for major contributions to science.

01.2020 Al-Hashimi Receives Prestigious National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology.

01.2020 Hashim Murtadha Al-Hashimi, Duke University, will receive the 2020 NAS Award in Molecular Biology.

01.2018 A Mutational Timer is Built into the Chemistry of DNA

08.2016 Milestone discovery shows resilience of DNA over RNA

07.2016 DNA’s dynamic nature makes it well-suited to serve as the blueprint of life

07.2016 A weird twist in DNA might explain why it’s such a great blueprint for life

03.2015 ‘Quantum Jitters’ Could Form Basis of Evolution, Cancer

10.2012 The discovery and characterization of fast RNA switches.

02.2012 Probing transient hydrogen-bonds in Hoogsteen base-pairs. Featured in C&EN.

11.2011 Dynamics based RNA-targeted drug discovery featured in Genome Technology Magazine.

09.2011 Popular Science magazine named Professor Hashim Al-Hashimi as one of “Brilliant 10” among nation’s top young scientists.

09.2011 Cover article in Nature Protocols describes quantification of RNA helix orientation by Euler angles.

06.2011 Virtual screen against structural ensemble of TAR revealed six new TAR-binding small molecules, one of which inhibits HIV-1 replication.

01.2011 Transient Hoogsteen Base-pairs in Canonical Duplex DNA.

08.2010 RNA Dynamics by Design
: VIP paper in Angewandte Chemie reports the successful design of RNA dynamics at atomic resolution.

05.2010 The code within the code: research in the Al-Hashimi lab highlighted in Nature.

01.2010 Rules governing RNA’s anatomy revealed. We show that simple topological constraints imposed at the secondary structure level largely predetermine the global structure, dynamics, and adaptation of RNA.

04.2009 High definition nanomovies reveal how RNA dances with drug partners. We have constructed an all-atom structural ensemble for an HIV-1 RNA molecule by combining NMR data and molecular dynamics simulations.

03.2008 Our RNA movies featured in a special edition of Science on RNA research.

12.2007 Nanovideo captures motion of RNA molecules in 3-D. Using domain elongation and measurements of NMR RDCs, we have constructed a dynamical trajectory in 3D for two helices in an RNA molecule.

02.2006 New method reveals how RNA ‘jiggles and wiggles’. We introduce a domain-elongation strategy for decoupling motional modes in RNA. This allowed us to expose previously unseen motional modes in RNA that play key roles in adaptive recognition.

Awards

06.2021 Atul Rangadurai is the recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) fellowship.

12.2020 Hashim is elected as one of the ISMAR Fellows.

11.2020 Honglue Shi is the recipient of the 2021 Biophysical Society Travel Award.

11.2020 Hashim is named one of the 2021 Class of Fellows of the Biophysical Society.

10.2020 Atul Rangadurai is the recipient of the 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence.

01.2020 Hashim is the recipient of the 2020 National Academy of Science Award in Molecular Biology.

10.2019 Stephanie Gu is the recipient of a Graduate Student Service Award at the October 2019 Duke Biochemistry Retreat.

10.2019 Hala Abou Assi is the recipient of the Duke Multidisciplinary Heart and Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular T32.

08.2019 Megan Kelly is the recipient of the F30 NIH fellowship.

04.2019 Megan Kelly is the recipient of the 2019 Michelle P. Winn Inclusive Excellence Award at Duke University.

02.2019 Honglue Shi is the recipient of the student travel stipend for the 2019 ENC.

12.2018 Atul Rangadurai is the recipient of the 2019 Biophysical Society Travel Award.

10.2018 Bei Liu is the recipient of an Outstanding Poster Award at the October 2018 Duke Biochemistry Retreat.

07.2018 Former group member Dr. Katja Petzold is the recipient of the 2018 Ampere prize.

06.2018 Chia-chieh Chu is the recipient of the Government Scholarship to Study Abroad from Taiwan.

04.2018 Megan Kelly is the recipient of the Elion Award.

04.2018 Hala Abou Assi is the recipient of the Carl A. Winkler Award in Chemistry at McGill University.

02.2018 Eric Szymanski is the recipient of the Katherine Goodman Stern Fellowship.

10.2017 Atul Rangadurai is the recipient of an Outstanding Poster Award at the October 2017 Duke Biochemistry Retreat.

06.2017 Former group member Scott Horowitz accepted a faculty position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Denver in Colorado.

03.2017 Former group member Huiqing (Jane) Zhou is the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Chicago.

02.2017 Dawn Merriman is the recipient of the Paul Barbara Scholarship for 2017 to attend a Telluride, CO. workshop on electrostatics.

02.2017 Laura Ganser is the recipient of a travel fellowship to attend the 2017 RNA Society Meeting in Prague.

02.2017 Laura Ganser is the recipient of a Graduate Student Service Award at the February 2017 Duke Biochemistry Retreat.

02.2017 Yu (Henry) Xu is the recipient of an Outstanding Poster Award at the February 2017 Duke Biochemistry Retreat.

11.2016 Former group member Qi Zhang is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award.

11.2016 Laura Ganser is the recipient of the NIH F31 Fellowship.

10.2016 Honglue Shi is the recipient of an Outstanding Poster Award at the 2016 Duke Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium.

06.2016 Isaac Kimsey is a finalist for the Reaxys PhD prize.

05.2015 Dawn Kellogg is the recipient of the Joe Taylor Adams Fellowship.

08.2014 Anisha Shakya is the recipient of an ICMRBS Poster Award.

07.2014 Hashim is the recipient of the Akutsu Award of the Korean NMR Society.

03.2014 Anisha Shakya is the recipient of an ENC student travel stipend.

03.2014 Jang Hyun Lee is the recipient of an ENC travel grant.

03.2014 University of Michigan undergraduate student Catherine Vogt is the recipient of the 2014 Seyhan N. Ege -WISE award.

03.2014 Former group member Jameson Bothe is the recipient of the NIH NRSA Post-Doc Fellowship.

04.2013 Hashim is the recipient of an Agilent Thought Leader award.

02.2013 Hashim is the recipient of the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.

02.2013 Hashim is the recipient of the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science.

01.2013 Jeet, Katja, and Liz’s paper is ranked top 10 by Faculty 1000 and #2 in Structural Biology!

11.2012 Former group member Evgenia Nikolova is the recipient of the Damon Runyon Cancer award.

08.2012 Hashim is awarded the Founder’s Medal at the International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological systems.

06.2012 Postdoctoral Fellow Katja Petzold is the recipient of the Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry Award for Young Scientists

02.2012 Fourth Year graduate student Scott Horowitz is the recipient of Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

08.2011 Former group member Liz Dethoffe is the recipient of a Basic Science Postdoctoral Training Program fellowship

07.2011 Fifth Year graduate student Jameson Bothe and third year graduate student Heidi Alvey received awards for best oral presentation and for best poster presentation at Vaughan Symposium

06.2011 Fifth Year graduate student Jameson Bothe is awarded a Alumni Fund Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award in Chemistry

02.2011 Fifth Year graduate student Liz Dethoffe is awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant

08.2010 Fourth Year graduate student Liz Dethoffe is selected to attend the Fifth Annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival

04.2010 First Year graduate student Anthony Mustoe is awarded an NSF predoctoral fellowship

02.2010 Fourth Year graduate student Evgenia Nikolova is the recipient of a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

03.2009 Third year undergraduate student Neetu Gulati is the recipient of a UROP Summer Biomedical and Life Sciences fellowship

02.2009 Former group member Alex Hansen is recipient of an NSF postdoctoral fellowship

12.2008 Former group member Catherine Musselman is recipient of an American Heart Association post-doctoral fellowship

04.2008 Former group member Qi Zhang is recipient of a Baltimore Family postdoctoral fellowship

03.2008 Qi Zhang is the recipient of the RNA Society Scaringe Young Scientist Award for his PhD work on RNA Dynamics

02.2008 Third year undergraduate student Neetu Gulati is the recipient of a Department of Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Program Fellowship

01.2008 Fifth year Chemistry gradate student Alex Hansen is the recipient of a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

11.2007 Second year Chemical Biology graduate student Evgenia Nikolova is the recipient of a Rackham International Student Fellowship

07.2007 Andrew is awarded an NSF predoctoral fellowship

04.2007 Max receives the best Oral Presentation award in the 2007 Michigan RNA Meeting

03.2007 Qi receives Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad 2006

10.2006 Yan receives the Oral Award in the 2006 Rustbelt RNA Meeting

10.2006 Charles receives the Poster Award in the 2006 Rustbelt RNA Meeting

06.2006 Qi is recipient of the Wirt & Mary Cornwell Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award

12.2005 Catherine is a recipient of the Molecular Biophysics Training Grant

12.2005 Max and Anette receive Rackham Science Awards

11.2005 Qi receives the Dharmacon Oral Award in the 2005 Rustbelt RNA Meeting

08.2004 Melissa receives the Milton Tamres Outstanding Teaching Award

08.2004 Alex receives a GAANN Training Grant Training Grant

Key Events

06.2021 Honglue Shi successfully defends his Ph.D.

04.2021 Atul Rangadurai successfully defends his Ph.D.

03.2021 Yu (Henry) Xu successfully defends his Ph.D.

07.2019 Rohit Roy joins the lab as a graduate student from Duke GCB.

03.2019 Chia-Chieh Chu successfully defends his Ph.D.

03.2019 Ainan Geng joins the lab as a graduate student from Duke Biochemistry.

01.2020 Dr. Or Szekely joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.

05.2019 Eric Szymanski successfully defends his Ph.D.

04.2019 Laura Ganser successfully defends her Ph.D.

03.2019 Stephanie Gu and Akanksha Manghrani join the lab as graduate students from Duke Biochemistry.

04.2018 Dr. Hala About Assi joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.

03.2018 Dawn Kellogg Merriman successfully defends her Ph.D.

02.2018 Atul Rangadurai passed his Preliminary Exam.

12.2017 Bei Liu passed his Preliminary Exam.

04.2017 Honglue Shi passed his Preliminary Exam.

01.2017 Megan Kelly joins the lab as graduate students from Duke MSTP.

08.2016 Anisha Shakya successfully defends Ph.D.

07.2016 Isaac Kimsey successfully defends Ph.D.

07.2016 Jane Zhou successfully defends Ph.D.

03.2016 Bei Liu and Atul Rangadurai join the lab as graduate students from Duke Biochemistry.

01.2016 Honglue Shi joins the lab as a graduate student from Duke Chemistry.

09.2015 Dr. Allison Stelling joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow.

04.2015 Eric Szymanski, Chia-Chieh Chu, and Nicole Orlovsky join the lab as graduate students from Duke Biochemistry.

01.2015 Dr. Mary Clay joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow, and Yu Xu, Duke Chemistry, joins the lab as a graduate student.

09.2014 Hashim is appointed the Director of the Duke Center for RNA Biology.

08.2014 Anthony Mustoe successfully defended his thesis.

05.2014 Laura Ganser, Duke Biochemistry, joins the lab as a graduate student.

09.2012 Jeet will start his independent position as Assistant Professor of Biology and Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India. Congrats Jeet!

04.2014 Heidi Alvey, Janghyun Lee, and Shan Yang successfully defended their theses.

01.2014 Dawn Kellogg, Duke Chemistry, joins the lab as a graduate student.

04.2012 Jameson Bothe and Catherine Eichhorn successfully defend their Ph.D.

10.2011 Loïc Salmon (PhD from Grenoble University, France) joins lab as a post doctoral fellow

08.2011 Evgenia successfully defends Ph. D.

04.2011 Liz successfully defends Ph. D.

04.2011 Chemistry graduate student Yu Chen becomes a joint member of the lab

04.2011 Chemistry graduate student Federico L. Gottardo joins the lab

09.2010 Annette successfully defends Ph. D.

08.2010 Katja Petzold (PhD from Umeå University, Sweden) joins lab as a post doctoral fellow

04.2010 Chemistry graduate students Shan Yang, Jang Hyun Lee and Heidi Pedini join the lab

04.2010 Program in Biological Science student Anthony Mustoe becomes a joint member of the lab

04.2010 Max successfully defends Ph. D.

01.2010 Andrew successfully defends Ph. D.

04.2009 Biophysics students Joe Yesselman and Scott Horowitz become joint members of the lab

01.2009 Alex successfully defends Ph.D.

09.2008 Jeetender Chugh (PhD from TIFR, India) joins lab as a post doctoral fellow

09.2008 Yan successfully defends Ph.D.

04.2008 Chemistry student Jameson Bothe and Chemical Biology student Katie Eichhorn join lab

09.2007 Catherine, Qi and Melissa successfully defend their Ph.D.

04.2007 Chemical Biology students Andrew Stelzer and Evgenia Nikolova join lab

08.2006 Undergraduate Alex joins the group as lab assistant

06.2006 Undergraduates Charles and Lesley join the group

04.2006 Liz joins the group

04.2005 Yan, Max and Anette join the group