The sequel to our DRT2 story is here, and this one is once again full of surprises! This time around, the Sternberg Lab teamed up with the Wiedenheft Lab to study how DRT9 reverse transcriptases provide antiviral immunity. Here’s what we found: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Computational discovery and experimental validation of mammalian gut colonization factors. Work led by our own amazing Menghan Liu in collaboration with Sohail Tavazoie lab at Rockefeller University. Columbia Biological Sciences Columbia Systems Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

2025 Canada Gairdner Award Winners Announced gairdner.org/resource-hub/2… Congrats to BMB faculty member Iva Greenwald, and mentor of many BMB scientists Gary Struhl for this tremendous honor!

Conserved energetic changes drive function in an ancient protein fold biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Same folds- different energetic requirements according to cellular function! New exciting preprint from Anum Glasgow Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

Hashim Al-Hashimi Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences cuimc.columbia.edu/news/hashim-al… "Hashim the Dream"- congrats for the great science and the great ethos that were both recognized!

Blood of man who’s had 200 snake bites helps make a potent antivenom nature.com/articles/d4158…

Another great study from Columbia Department of Medicine and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics faculty Peter Kwong! Congrats to the team!

Fitzpatrick Laboratory Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Cell This is amazing stuff! Many congratulations!

For the first time, scientists Charles Zuker, Fitzpatrick Laboratory and team have mapped the tongue’s sweet sensor. This could lead to new ways to curb our insatiable attraction to sugar. Columbia University Cell zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/scientists-map… #sweet #Neuroscience 🍬🧠

Fitzpatrick Laboratory Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Cell Wow, congrats to you all!!

Another historic scientific discovery by Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute faculty Zuker and Fitzpatrick.

Sweet!

Big news in taste #science: HHMI Investigator Charles Zuker, Fitzpatrick Laboratory and team have revealed the structure of the human sweet receptor. This could lead to ways of reducing sugar in foods—without sacrificing taste. More here: hhmi.news/3F0plr4

nature.com/articles/s4158… Awesome new paper from Shan Za and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and systems biology colleague Chaolin Zhang Chaolin Zhang

New Gene Editor Enables Greater Precision cuimc.columbia.edu/news/sternberg…

Congratulations to ColumbiaPublicHealth’s Class of 2025! 👏🎓 We look forward to celebrating your future triumphs.

Amazing! Congrats to all!

Excited to share my last major PhD work from the Sternberg Lab. We discovered a mechanism that initiates transcription at programmable sites, without requiring promoter sequences - a novel mode of transcription regulation in bacteria.

So excited to welcome Akanksha Thawani, PhD at the department!

biochem.cuimc.columbia.edu/profile/naomi-… together with our newest arrival in the department, Dr. Naomi Latorraca, a wizard in GPCR structural dynamics, Akanksha Thawani, PhD completes our efforts to bring some UCBerkeley creativity at Washington Heights!