Organisms must accumulate scarce nutrients from their environments to survive. This often involves moving molecules up a concentration gradient, which is entropically unfavorable. Active transport proteins embedded in…
Tag: Rachelle Gaudet
MCO Grad Student Elizabeth May Named as Aramont Fund Fellow!
MCO graduate student Elizabeth May (G4) of the Gaudet Lab has received a fellowship from the Aramont Fund for Emerging Science Research in support of a project called…
Computing the Evolution of Specificity in Dynamic Protein Interfaces [Gaudet Lab]
As our brain develops, neurons need to connect to each other through synapses. We study a family of proteins called clustered protocadherins that help ensure that only proper…
José Velilla of the Gaudet Lab Receives HHMI Gilliam Fellowship [Gaudet Lab]
Chemical biology grad student José Velilla [G4] of the Gaudet Lab has been named as a recipient of HHMI’s Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study. The Gilliam Fellowship supports…
Rachelle Gaudet Honored with Mentoring Award
The student-run organization Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (HGWISE) has named MCB faculty Rachelle Gaudet “Mentor of the Year.” The award recognizes faculty and GSAS alumni…
Open Sesame! Engineering a Transition Metal Transporter to Uncover its Substrate Pathways [Gaudet Lab]
Transport proteins embedded in the cellular membrane move chemical cargo into and out of cells, thus facilitating the acquisition of essential nutrients. Many transport proteins evolved from a…
Phosphatases and Proteases are Distant Relatives [Losick and Gaudet Labs]
Diverse cellular and developmental processes are controlled by reversible phosphorylation – the process by which phosphates are added or removed from proteins. Reversible protein phosphorylation is widely used…
Unusual Calcium Binding Allows Flexing of a Cadherin Involved in Hearing [Gaudet Lab]
Vertebrates rely on the inner ear to convert the mechanical stimuli of sound and head movements into electrical signals that can be decoded by the brain. This process,…
INSIGHTS INTO CAUSES OF ANEMIA FROM A MEMBRANE PROTEIN STRUCTURE [GAUDET LAB]
Iron is a key micronutrient that organisms use in many biological processes. Indeed, aerobic respiration requires iron to transport oxygen in our blood, to catalyze redox reactions of…
PANNING FOR PRECIOUS METALS [GAUDET LAB]
When we think of the chemical elements of life, the “big four” of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen leap to mind, and rightly so, as they make up…
