Previous News

2011
5-16-11 It's official, Rachelle is Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology!
5-7-11 Congratulations to Postdoc Wilhelm Weihofen, who will be joining Novartis as a Crystallography Lab Head!
5-1-11 Welcome to new Graduate Student Lukas Bane!
4-15-11 Congratulations to Undergraduate Anne McCabe, who completed her thesis "Studying the ion permeation pathway of divalent metal transporter NRAMP using site-directed mutagenesis" - off to Princeton Molecular Biology!
2010
6-1-10 Welcome to new postdoc Alejandro Marin Peralvarez!
5-18-10 New paper in Brain: "Dominant mutations in the cation channel gene transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 cause an unusual spectrum of neuropathies" in collaboration with several groups
4-15-10 New paper in Neuron: "Structural Determinants of Cadherin-23 Function in Hearing and Deafness" (Sotomayor M, Weihofen WA, Gaudet R and Corey DP); read more here
1-4-10 New paper in JBC: "Characterization and structural studies of the Plasmodium falciparum ubiquitin and NEDD8 hydrolase UCHL3" in collaboration with Hidde Ploegh's group (from our group: Weihofen WA and Gaudet R)
2009
12-28-09 New paper on TRPV4 in Nature Genetics: "Mutations in TRPV4 cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2C" in collaboration with several groups (from our group: Inada H, Choo SS, Phelps CB, and Gaudet R)
10-28-09 New paper on TRPV channels in JBC: "Differential Regulation of TRPV1, TRPV3 and TRPV4 Sensitivity through a Conserved Binding Site on the Ankyrin Repeat Domain" (Phelps CB, Wang RR, Choo SS, and Gaudet R)
8-10-09 Welcome to new Graduate Student Luciann Cuenca!
7-7-09 Rachelle Gaudet becomes Associate Member of the Groupe d'Étude des Protéines Membranaires (GÉPROM or in English here).
5-27-09 Rachelle Gaudet presents "Structural insights into the function of TRPV ion channels" as keynote speaker at GÉPROM's 2nd Science Day in Montreal, Canada.
5-15-09 Albert Li wins a Hoopes Prize for his thesis: "Structural Studies of TRPV1 Activation by Capsaicin" !!
5-15-09 Congratulations to Postdoc Chris Phelps, who will be joining GlaxoSmithKline as a Principal Scientist!
4-15-09 Congratulations to Research Assistant Amanda McFedries, who will be joining the MCO PhD program in the summer!
3-2-09 New review out in Current Opinion in Immunology: "Antigen processing and presentation: TAPping into ABC transporters" (Procko and Gaudet)
3-1-09 New review out in Journal of General Physiology: "Divide and conquer: high resolution structural information on TRP channel fragments" (Gaudet)
1-27-09 New review out in FASEB Journal: "The mechanism of ABC transporters: general lessons from structural and functional studies of an antigenic peptide transporter" (Procko and Gaudet)
2008
12-10-08 Undergraduate Sam Haidar successfully defends his engineering Design Project: “Inducing Dimeric Interactions Using Leucine Zippers”!
8-1-08 News and Views publication “The ABCs of trans(porter) inhibition” in Nature Chemical Biology (Gaudet)
6-5-08 New review out in Journal of Physiology: "TRP channels entering the structural era" (Gaudet)
5-2-08 New paper on TAP in Biochemistry: "Functionally important interactions between the nucleotide-binding domains of an antigenic peptide transporter" (Procko and Gaudet)
4-30-08 Congratulations to Grad Student Erik Procko who successfully defended his PhD thesis “General mechanisms for ABC transporters revealed by the transporter associated with antigen processing”!
3-26-08 New review out in Molecular BioSystems: "A primer on ankyrin repeat function in TRP channels and beyond" (Gaudet)
3-10-08 Rachelle is featured in a Boston Globe article and in the "Broken Pipeline" report
1-31-08 New paper on TRPV channels in Biochemistry: "Structural analyses of the ankyrin repeat domain of TRPV6 and related TRPV ion channels" (Phelps CB, Huang RJ, Lishko PV, Wang RR, and Gaudet R)