News & Updates

5 March 2023. Zheren's paper on mechanism of CrPV IRES translocation is available on BioRxiv. Sordarin bound eEF2 unlocks spontaneous forward and reverse translocation on CrPV IRES. Zheren Ou, Alexey Petrov doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.04.530920

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22 February 2023. Zheren presented his poster on mechanism of tRNA translocation "Sordarin bound eEF2 unlocks spontaneous translocation" Ou Z, Petrov A. at the Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Diego.

22 February 2023. Tianhan presented a poster on mechanism of leaderless translation "Following Translation Initiation of Leaderless mRNAs" at the Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Diego.

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17 January 2023. Brielle presented her poster on development of single-molecule system to study translation initiation "Alternative mechanisms of prokaryotic translation initiation" Sorkin B, Huang T, Petrov A. at UF Scripps Symposium. RNA: From Biology to Drug Discovery.

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22 January 2023. Congratulations to Olivia Sawyer, her poster "Dye behavior in high speed single-molecule microscopy" Sawyer O, Huang T, Petrov A, was awarded an honorable mention at the
APS 2023 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics.

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18 March 2022. Zheren gave a short talk at the RNA symposium (University at  Albany, SUNY) on mechanism of CrPV IRES translocation. "Sordarin bound eEF2 unlocks spontaneous intersubunit rotation." Ou Z, Petrov A.

18 March 2022.  Our collaborators from Gaby Fuchs lab presented development of new single-molecule approaches.  "Direct Cell to Single Molecule - A versatile platform for single molecule TIRFM" Selvam S, Tansie S, Pandey J, Petrov A, Fuchs G. RNA symposium (University at  Albany, SUNY)

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​10 September 2021. Zheren presented initial results on CrPV IRES mediated translation at EMBL Conference: Protein Synthesis and Translational Control. "Sordarin bound eEF2 unlocks spontaneous intersubunit rotation." Ou Z, Petrov A. Short talk/poster

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​​​23 March 2021. Congratulations to Tianhan, who presented a poster at Auburn Student Research symposium "Single Molecule Exploration of Spontaneous Ribosomal Rotation" Huang T, Choi J, Prabhakar, Puglisi JD, Petrov A.

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16 March 2021. Tianhan presented a poster at RNA Biology Symposium by Natrional Cancer Institute"Partial spontaneous intersubunit rotations in actively translating ribosomes" Huang T, Choi J, Prabhakar, Puglisi JD, Petrov A.

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16 March 2021. Our collaborators from Gaby Fuchs lab presented a poster at RNA Biology Symposium by National Cancer Institute "Direct Cell to Single Molecule: A versatile platform to analyze proteins in single-molecule TIRFM." Selvam S, Tansie S, Pandey J, Petrov A, Fuchs G.

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4 March 2021. Congratulations to Tianhan Huang who recived a best short talk award at 8th RNA symposium at University at Albany! "Partial spontaneous intersubunit rotations in actively translating ribosomes" Huang Tg, Choi J, Prabhakar, Puglisi JD, Petrov A.

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​4 March 2021. Great poster by our collaborators at 8th RNA minisymposium at SUNY Albany."A versatile platform to analyze proteins in single-molecule TIRFM." Selvam S, Tansie Sg, Pandey Jp, Petrov A, Fuchs G.

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