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  1. 4. the Molecular ____ Graduate Training Program focuses on understanding biological systems using physical and chemical properties
  2. 7. the name of the new cafe that opened in January 2025 in JSCBB
  3. 8. the number of rotations in different labs that first years in our department complete before selecting a thesis lab
  4. 10. this research professor got her PhD at CU Boulder in 2001
  5. 12. this distinguished professor and endowed chair of biochemistry just received the World Laureates Association Price in 2023!
  6. 15. the new 400,000 square foot research and teaching facility at CU Boulder that opened in 2012
  7. 18. this professor has a PhD in Computational and Systems Biology from MIT and her lab studies how signaling events control cell fate
  8. 20. the last name of our incredible Graduate Program Coordinator
  9. 24. this lab studies cancer progression and works on developing new methods for protein profiling by mass spectrometry
  10. 25. pioneered the synthesis of many new nucleic acid analogues that have found applications in the nucleic acid diagnostic and therapeutic areas
  11. 27. the name for the student-led group focusing on building community LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff
  12. 29. the name of the new book written by our very own Dr. Thomas Cech
  13. 31. the number of Howard Hughes Investigators in our department
  14. 33. the unofficial name given to the new Glacios TEM that recently joined "Princess Krios" in JSCBB in 2023
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  1. 1. the department chair for CU Boulder biochemistry
  2. 2. the Cell Culture facility has _____ CO2 incubators and 13 biosafety cabinets
  3. 3. in additon to hosting the Chemical and Biological Engineering department and the Biochemistry department, the JSCBB also houses this institute
  4. 5. the Sousa lab studies the fundamental processes that occur at the ____ interface
  5. 6. the Aaron Whiteley lab published a recent paper about how ____ gain the upper hand in the metabolic arms race for NAD+
  6. 9. a class of non-coding RNA elements commonly found in the 5'-UTRs of bacterial mRNAs, one focus of the Batey lab
  7. 11. our amazing director of the Shared Instrument Core, which houses state of the art equipment for the department
  8. 13. the Alex Whiteley studies these proteasomal shuttle factors
  9. 14. this lab studies the mechanistic basis for how alterations in chromatin architecture by chromatin modifiers regulate gene expression
  10. 16. The ______ and Cellular Regulation Graduate Program is an interdepartmental training grant between the MCDB and Biochemistry departments
  11. 17. our new assistant professor of biochemistry, returning to CU Boulder!
  12. 19. the Parker lab discovered that these are formed, in part, by promiscuous intermolecular RNA-RNA interactions
  13. 20. this lab studies telomere biology and plasticity in molecular recognition
  14. 21. this professor got his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994
  15. 22. this lab studies signal transduction mechanisms in macrophage chemotaxis and phagocytosis
  16. 23. this professor's research focuses on mechanistic enzymology
  17. 26. this lab studies how long noncoding RNA genes regulate numerous biological processes
  18. 28. this lab focuses on chemical biology, biosensor design, and imaging of signal transduction pathways
  19. 30. this professor got his PhD at CU Boulder and his lab studies transcription regulation in human development and disease
  20. 32. this professor shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA