News
Elucidating the Molecular Basis for Anhydrobiosis Using Biological Soil Crusts as a Model
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May 1, 2025
Dr. Chang and collaborators Erik Hom (Ole Miss) and Stephen Callister (PNNL) were awarded a three-year, $1.5 million NASA ROSES Exobiology grant to study mechanisms of anhydrobiosis in biological soil crusts via multi-omics and computational modeling.
Characterizing the Role of the Metabolism-Post-Translational-Modification Axis in Retinal Ganglion Cell Neurodegeneration
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May 4, 2025, Juan Sepulveda
Juan presents his research poster at ARVO 2025.
Discovery of a Novel Cyanobacterial Intrinsically Disordered Protein Linked to Stress Response in Arid Landscape Biological Soil Crusts
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April 29, 2025
Dr. Chang presents on collaborative research with Dr. Erik Hom and Dr. Stephen Callister at the PNNL Predictive Phenomics Conference 2025.
Characterizing the Role of the Metabolism-Post-Translational-Modification Axis in Glaucoma
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October 31, 2024, Juan Sepulveda
Juan presents his research poster at SACNAS NDiSTEM 2024.
An Integrative in vitro and in silico Platform for Studying Microbial Community Metabolic Dynamics
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October 25, 2024, Gracelyn Richmond
Grace gives research talk at the COBRA 2024.
From Models to Microbes: An Interdisciplinary Synthetic Gut Microbial Community Platform for Probiotic Innovation
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February 21, 2024, Gracelyn Richmond
Grace presents her research poster at the annual Winter q-bio conference.
Protecting Cells from Oxidative Damage
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September 6, 2023
Dr. Chang was awarded a five-year, $2.1 million NIH grant to analyze proteins in metabolic pathways to determine which targets and structural properties are most susceptible to oxidative damage.
in silico design of Lactocaseibacillus rhamnosus GG for prophylactic metabolite production in a microbial consortium
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July 26, 2023, Gracelyn Richmond
Grace presents her research poster at the inaugural Gordon Research Conference for Lactic Acid Bacteria Biology, Symbioses and Applications.
Tardigrades protect proteins on the brink of death
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May 4, 2023, Stephanie DeMarco
"Tardigrades survive heat, freezing, and even space radiation. Now, researchers translate lessons learned from these creatures into more stable drug formulations and new health insights." (Roger Chang is interviewed)
Tardigrades could teach us how to handle the rigors of space travel
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July 13, 2022, Douglas Fox
The potential of learning from tardigrades in how to prepare humans and crops for space travel is discussed, citing our recent paper.
Learning from tardigrades
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March 25, 2022, Derek Lowe
In the Pipeline's Derek Lowe discusses our recent recent paper establishing the protective properties of IDPs from extremotolerant organisms in human cells.
Nora Lowe takes 1st place in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Regeneron WESEF
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March 24, 2022
Congratulations to Nora!
Making sense of disorder: Investigating intrinscially disordered proteins in the tardigrade proteome via a computational approach
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March 22, 2022, Nora Lowe
Nora Lowe presents her poster at The Royal Society Anhydrobiosis meeting.
Nora Lowe takes 1st place in Bioinformatics at Upstate Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
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March 15, 2022
Congratulations to Nora!