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Legacy Archive
June 2024
- Congrats to Michael, Justin and Kun on publishing on the tunability and stability of imidazole nucleofuges as targeted covalent inhibitors in ChemBioChem.
- Thank you to organizers for the opportunity to present our lab's work on cancer at the FASEB Cell Signaling in Cancer meeting.
March 2024
- Congrats to Dr. Miaomiao Chen for successfully defending her thesis!
- We thank Cell Chem Bio for including us on a recent Voices article on the potential for bio-orthogonal chemistry.
- Congrats to Olivia and Michael for receiving DBC Student Travel Awards for ACS Spring 2024!
January 2024
- Thank you to Stacy Malaker for the invitation to visit and present our work on SuTEx chemistry to the Department of Chemistry at Yale.
- Welcome to our new research scientist, Sagar Vaidya!
December 2023
November 2023
- Thank you Jen Liou for the invitation to present our work on lipid signaling and macrophage bioenergetics in the Department of Physiology at UTSW.
- 6 new graduate students join the Hsu Family: Mikayla Horvath, Payton Lowrey, Harith Budaraju, Surya Mookherjee, Wes Wolfe and Yen-Ting Chen. Welcome!
- Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow, Changlei Zhu!
October 2023
- We are excited to see the launch of Hyku Biosciences to explore the drug discovery potential of SuTEx! Press release · UT Austin highlight · UVA LVG highlight
- Congrats to Andy Heindel on publishing the development of a chemoproteomic platform for investigating RNA binding activity in Nature Communications.
September 2023
- Thank you to Sid Hecht for the invitation to visit and present our work on SuTEx chemistry at the School of Molecular Science at ASU.
- Thank you to the organizers for the opportunity to present our work on the protein-RNA interactome at Discovery on Target.
- Welcome Anting Chen as our new lab manager!
- Welcome to our new research scientist Emily Ayers!
August 2023
- The Hsu Lab has completed the move to UT Austin. Hook 'em Horns!
- Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow Neelesh Reddy!
July 2023
- Thank you to organizers for the opportunity to present our work at the Cannabinoid Function in the CNS GRC in Spain.
- Thank you to organizers for the invitation to present our work on diacylglycerol kinase investigations at the Molecular and Cellular Biology of Lipids GRC.
June 2023
- Thank you to organizers for the opportunity to present our work on SuTEx chemistry at the Bioorganic Chemistry GRC.
May 2023
- Congrats to Anthony and Miaomiao on publishing their work on discovery of SuTEx as condensate-modulating covalent ligands in JACS. A big thanks to Ralph Kleiner and Josh Seo for the excellent collaboration!
- Congrats to Rob Mendez on publishing his work combining chemoproteomics and AlphaFold to map ligandable pockets on the diacylglycerol kinase superfamily in RSC Chemical Biology.
April 2023
- Thank you to the organizers for the opportunity to present our work on chemoproteomic methods for investigating the RNA interactome at Drug Discovery Chemistry.
March 2023
- Thanks to Phil Jones for the invitation to visit and present our work at the Institute for Applied Cancer Science and Department of Genomic Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
February 2023
- Happy to share our review article on functional tyrosine profiling dedicated to Ben Cravatt on the occasion of being awarded the 2022 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
January 2023
- We begin 2023 with celebration of new R01 funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). We thank the NIH and scientific community for the continued support!
December 2022
- Congrats to Anthony Ciancone on publishing his work to identify stress-responsive tyrosine and lysine sites involved in biomolecular condensate regulation. Read the full story here.
- Thank you to Huaibin Cai at NIH for the invitation to present our DAGLB work in a webinar on the Endocannabinoid System and Brain Diseases.
November 2022
- Congrats to Dr. Kun Yuan on successfully defending his thesis. We enjoyed a nice celebration with the Hsu Lab crew! Best of luck at BioMarin Pharmaceutical.
October 2022
- Looking forward to visiting New York for The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research Annual Scientific Symposium.
- Thank you to the organizing committee of Discovery of Target for the invitation to share our work on SuTEx chemistry in Boston.
- Congrats to Dr. Anthony Ciancone on successful defense of his thesis. Great celebration with a fantastic crew! Good luck Anthony on your postdoctoral position at NCI in the O'Reilly laboratory.
September 2022
- We thank The Daily Texan on their article about our CPRIT Award and recruitment to UT Austin Chemistry!
August 2022
- Professor Hsu receives a CPRIT Rising Stars Award and will move his research program to the Chemistry Department at UT Austin in 2023 as a CPRIT Scholar. The official announcement can be found at CPRIT, UT Austin Chemistry, and UT College of Natural Sciences.
July 2022
- Congrats to Dr. Rob Mendez for successfully defending his thesis. Glad we had a chance to celebrate a successful defense through a nice outdoor lab party. Best of luck in your postdoctoral position at Brown University!
June 2022
- Thank you to Rebecca Berdeaux and Alan Smrcka for the invitation to speak at the GRC Phosphorylation and G-Protein Mediated Signaling Networks Meeting!
- Our collaborative work with the Adli and Kashatus groups investigating ISL2 in pancreatic cancer is published in Developmental Cell.
May 2022
- A big thanks to Donita Brady, Arvin Dar, and organizers for the invitation to speak at the FASEB Conference on Cell Signaling in Cancer!
April 2022
- Enjoyed presenting SuTEx platform at the Drug Discovery Chemistry Meeting in San Diego!
- We are thrilled to welcome back undergraduate student researchers Caitlin McSorley and Robert Seal to the group.
March 2022
- Thanks to Georg Winter for the invite to give a virtual talk at CeMM.
- Excited to give a talk at the MRA Annual retreat!
February 2022
- Welcome to our newest graduate student David Leace from the UVA MD/PhD program!
January 2022
- New review on electrophilic groups used in covalent probe and therapeutic development. Congrats to leading author Justin!
December 2021
- We end the year with a celebration of new funding from NIH. I am proud of my team for overcoming challenging times and grateful for all of our accomplishments. Looking forward to a bright new year!
November 2021
- We welcome our newest Postdoctoral Fellow Minhaj Shaikh and Graduate Student Madeleine Ware. We are excited to have you both join our team!
September 2021
- We welcome our newest Postdoctoral Fellows Justin Grams and Xiaoding Jiang. We are excited to have you join our team!
August 2021
- Congrats to Kun and Becca's publication on development of a targeted covalent kinase probe in Analytical Chemistry! Read the article here. Also a big thanks to the Hunt lab for the collaboration.
July 2021
- Happy to share our new review on enabling investigations of the lipid kinome using chemical proteomic technologies. Congrats to Tim on this publication in Current Opinion in Chemical Biology.
- Congratulations Dr. Adam Borne. We wish you the best in your new position as Senior Proteomics Scientist at Roivant. See our celebration.
June 2021
- Congratulations Dr. Tim Ware. We wish you the best in your postdoctoral fellow position in the Cravatt Lab! Very thankful our group could meet safely after a long year of lockdown. See our celebration.
May 2021
- Tim Ware defends his thesis titled "Characterization of diacylglycerol metabolizing enzyme functional specificity in native biological systems." Congrats Tim!
April 2021
- Congrats to Anthony, Emmanuel, Hahm, Skylar, and the SuTEx team on the new publication in ChemBioChem!
February 2021
- Professor Hsu is selected as a recipient of the Emerging Leader Award from The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research! Read the press release here.
- Congrats to our graduate students Miaomiao Chen and Michael Founds for passing their candidacy exams.
- Congrats to Tim Ware for receiving an NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award! Read the highlight here.
- Our preview on chemical proteomics for target deconvolution in phenotypic drug discovery. Read the highlight in Cell Chemical Biology.
January 2021
- Congrats to Tao, Mohsen, Adam, and Jeff and collaborators on their research article describing development of a sulfonyl-triazole probe for live cell kinase profiling!
- Congrats to Adam, Jeff, and Kun, on their review article on SuTEx and its chemical biology applications!
December 2020
- We welcome our new graduate students Olivia Murtagh and Larry Reser!
November 2020
- Glad to see our collaborative work with the Laurie lab published in Journal of Biological Chemistry.
October 2020
- Great job to the Gaultier Lab and my student Becca McCloud for this collaborative effort on PKM2. Read the story here in Science Signaling.
August 2020
- Congrats to Dr. Toroitich! We wish you the best of luck in your future career.
July 2020
- Proud to announce my former postdoc Sean Campbell has started his new position as Assistant Professor of Pathology at Albert Einstein!
June 2020
- I received official approval for my tenure and promotion to Associate Professor!
May 2020
- Congrats to Dr. Brulet! Jeff was our first student to graduate via a virtual ceremony. Check out the ceremony here. Good luck on your future position as a Scientist at Scorpion Therapeutics!
April 2020
- Congrats to Jeff Brulet on his efforts to apply SuTEx for developing tyrosine-reactive covalent ligands of proteins. Read our findings at JACS!
March 2020
- We thank Clinical OMICs for highlighting our research program. Honored to be a part of the selected group.
February 2020
- Congrats to Tim Ware and his amazing efforts to combine protein engineering and lipidomics to annotate C1 domain function in directing lipid kinase fatty acyl specificity. Read our findings at Nature Chemical Biology!
January 2020
- Looking forward to another great year!
- Congrats to Rob and his collaborative efforts with the Ewald Lab. Very nice story on Spatially Targeted Optical Microproteomics (STOMP).
December 2019
- Annual Hsu Lab Christmas Party. A heartfelt thanks for all the hard work and dedication from the members of my group in 2019!
November 2019
- Congrats to Hahm, Emmanuel, Adam, and Jeff on their tremendous effort to develop SuTEx chemistry for chemical proteomic investigation of functional tyrosines. Read our findings at Nature Chemical Biology! — recommended by F1000
- Prof Hsu's NSF CAREER proposal has been awarded!
October 2019
- Prof Hsu will present a talk in the Advancements in Chemical Biology session at SERMACS.
September 2019
- Congrats to Rebecca McCloud on our collaborative paper with the Lazo group in Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
August 2019
- Congrats to Caroline on her paper in Current Protocols in Chemical Biology.
- Congrats to Tim and Shin on their paper in Methods in Enzymology.
May 2019
- Congrats Dr. Shin and Dr. Franks. Official first PhDs from the Hsu Lab!
April 2019
- A huge congrats to Shin and Caroline for defending their thesis! The Lab celebrates this great accomplishment.
- Congrats to Kelly for being selected a recipient of the 2019 Minerva Scholars Award.
- Congrats to Skylar and Rebecca S for receiving a departmental Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship.
March 2019
- Congrats to Anthony, Kun, and Rob for passing their Candidacy exam. They are officially PhD candidates. Great job!
February 2019
- Rebecca M is selected as the 2019 Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student. Great job!
December 2018
- Ending a great year with the annual Hsu Lab Christmas Party!
November 2018
- Thank you to METRIC and Thermo Scientific for the invitation and opportunity to speak at the Annual RTP Mass Spectrometry Symposium!
October 2018
- We thank the UVA Cancer Center for awarding our lab a Collaboration Award to support cross-grounds efforts to study and target DGKs!
September 2018
- Congrats to Sean, Caroline, Adam, Shin, and Liuzhi on their paper in Molecular Pharmacology!
August 2018
- Professor Hsu will be presenting a talk in the Advances in Mass Spectrometry session at the ACS National Meeting in Boston.
- Professor Hsu will be presenting a talk in the Early Career Investigators in Biological Chemistry session at the ACS National Meeting in Boston.
- Congrats to Adam, Tao, Becca, and Boobalan on their paper in Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology!
- Congrats to Shin and Tim on their paper in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta!
July 2018
- Congrats to Adam Borne for receiving a Wagner Fellowship Award!
- Welcome our new graduate student Kun!
- Professor Hsu attends GRC Enzymes, Coenzymes, and Metabolic Pathways.
June 2018
- Hsu lab is heading to GRC Bioorganic this summer. Caroline and Shin will be presenting their research at the associated Gordon Research Seminar.
- Congrats Sean on your new position as Assistant Director of Hematology and Coagulation Labs at Montefiore Medical Center!
- Congrats to Sean for receiving a 2018 ACLPS Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award!
May 2018
- Professor Hsu is selected to receive a Young Investigator Award. We thank the Melanoma Research Alliance for their generous support!
April 2018
- Professor Hsu is traveling to sunny San Diego for the ASBMB meeting.
- Professor Hsu will travel to the windy city for the annual AACR meeting.
- Congratulations to Rebecca McCloud for being awarded a NSF GRFP Fellowship!
- Welcome our new graduate student Andy Heindel!
March 2018
- Professor Hsu visits the Pharmacology and Toxicology Department at VCU to present a seminar.
- Professor Hsu will give an oral presentation in the Biological Chemistry session of the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans!
February 2018
- Professor Hsu visits the Biochemistry Department at Virginia Tech to present a seminar.
- Congrats to Caroline on being selected a 2018 Sidney M. Hecht Graduate Fellow!
January 2018
- Welcome our new postdoctoral fellows Tao and Boobalan!
- Congrats to Shin and Caroline on their ERK paper in Chemical Science!
December 2017
- Annual Hsu Lab Christmas Party. Thanks to everyone for another great year!
- Congratulations to Rebecca, Caroline, and Sean on their DGK paper in Biochemistry!
November 2017
- Welcome our new graduate student Anthony Ciancone!
- Congratulations to Caroline on receiving an American Chemical Society Women Chemists Travel Award sponsored by Eli Lilly!
- Welcome our new undergraduate students Haley, Amrita, Sajan, and Elizabeth!
October 2017
- Lab celebration for recent grants and papers!
- The Hsu Lab is featured in UVa Today on their recent Department of Defense CDMRP Award!
- The Hsu Lab receives their first NIH R01 Grant!!! We are very grateful for the support!
September 2017
- Congratulations to Shin on his liposomal DAGLB inhibitor paper in Molecular Pharmaceutics!
August 2017
- Our DGK paper in Cell Chemical Biology is highlighted on the ASBMB Lipid Corner! Video here.
- Hsu lab along with UVa collaborators BJ Purow and Thurl Harris receive a Schiff Grant to study DGKs in GBM!
July 2017
- Congratulations to Caroline and Sean on their DGK paper in Cell Chemical Biology!
June 2017
- Adam is selected for the UVa Cancer Research Training Grant.
- Tim is selected for the UVa Molecular Biophysics Training Grant.
May 2017
- Congratulations to Liuzhi Zhang for receiving an Alpha Chi Sigma Undergraduate Chemistry Award!
April 2017
- Congratulations to Caroline for winning 1st place in the 3rd Year Poster Award for her work on diacylglycerol kinases.
March 2017
- Professor Hsu is selected as a recipient of the DOD 2016 Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program Career Development Award!
- Welcome our new graduate student Adam Borne!
February 2017
- Sean is selected for the UVA Cancer Research Training Grant.
December 2016
November 2016
- Welcome our new postdoctoral fellow Sean Campbell!
- Welcome our new graduate students Tim Ware and Rebecca McCloud!
- Welcome our new undergraduate students Liuzhi Zhang and Victoria Kim!
October 2016
- Congratulations to Natalie Gaughan on her new Staff Scientist position at NIAID!
September 2016
- The Hsu lab receives a Biomedical Innovation in Diabetes Grant from UVA LaunchPad. We are very grateful to the Manning Family Foundation for the support!
June 2016
- Jeff is selected for the UVA Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant.
- Caroline is reappointed to the UVA Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant.
April 2016
- Congratulations to Youlim for winning second place in the ACS Undergraduate Poster Session!
March 2016
- New paper identifies diacylglycerol lipase-beta as a novel target for inflammatory and neuropathic pain.
February 2016
- Congratulations to Caroline and Shin for passing their 2nd year candidacy exams!
January 2016
- New paper in PNAS describing DAGL function in nicotine addiction.
December 2015
September 2015
- Welcome Youlim, Weihao, Hahm, and Carolyn to the lab!
August 2015
- End of summer BBQ to celebrate everyone's hard work!
- Caroline selected for the UVA Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant.
- Welcome our new undergraduate researcher Jack Hawkins.
- New paper from the Hsu lab identifies potent and selective inhibitors of platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolases by high-throughput screening.
- Welcome our new research scientist Mark Ross! Mark brings 20+ years of mass spectrometry experience to our research group.
- Welcome our new graduate students: Myungsun Shin, Caroline Franks, and Jeffrey Brulet!