Tal-Gan Research Group

2018

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Dec 8, 2018

Congratulations to Crissey for being awarded the Undergraduate Researcher Award from the Sierra Nevada ACS section! Keep it up!

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Nov 26, 2018

Congratulations to Ryan for receiving the Safest Organic Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award for Fall 2018!

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Nov 11, 2018

Congratulations to Brooke for receiving the Honor's Undergraduate Research Award (HURA)!

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Oct 19, 2018

Congratulations to Bimal, Tony, and Yifang!  Bimal and Yifang have each received the Hyung Kyu Shin Graduate Scholarship, while Tony has received the John H. Nelson Graduate Scholarship!

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Oct 15, 2018

Congratulations to Raihan for receiving the John H. Nelson Graduate Scholarship!

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Sep 14, 2018

Congratulations to Tony for receiving the Therapeutic Peptide Symposium travel grant!

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Sep 13, 2018

Congratulations to Bimal! His collaborative paper with the Lau group titled "Development of a Dominant Negative Competence Stimulating Peptide (dnCSP) that Attenuates Streptococcus pneumoniae Infectivity in a Mouse Model of Acute Pneumonia" has been accepted for publication in ChemBioChem. Sweet!

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Sep 7, 2018

Congratulations to Tony for receiving the GSA travel award!

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Aug 24, 2018

Congratulations to Dominic, Crissey, and Brooke! Their paper titled "Rational Design of Potent Activators and Inhibitors of the Enterococcus faecalis Fsr Quorum Sensing Circuit" has been accepted for publication by ACS Chemical Biology! Good work!

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Aug 20, 2018

Congratulations to Yifang! His paper titled "Structural Characterization of Competence Stimulating Peptide Analogues Reveals Key Features for ComD1 and ComD2 Receptor Binding in Streptococcus pneumoniae" has been accepted for publication in Biochemistry! Great Job Yifang!

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July 19, 2018

The Tal-Gan lab was just awarded a $1,787,700 research grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS; R35GM128651) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support our bacterial communication research program. Hooray!

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July 12, 2018

Congratulations to Tony for having his proposal for an INBRE VPRI Service Award selected! The award brings in $5,000 for use in CORE facilities.

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July 10, 2018

Congratulations to Raihan and Sally. Their paper titled "Structure-Activity Relationships (SARs) of the Competence Stimulating Peptide (CSP) in Streptococcus mutans Reveal Motifs Critical for Membrane Protease SepM Recognition and ComD Receptor Activation" has been accepted for publication in ACS Infectious Diseases! Awesome!

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June 27, 2018

The Tal-Gan lab was just awarded a $426,000 research grant from the Chemistry of Life Processes Program in the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation (NSF CLP; CHE-1808370) to support our studies focused on interspecies communication in Streptococci. Woohoo!

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June 25, 2018

Congratulations to Bimal! His collaborative paper with the Bertucci group titled "Defining the hydrophobic interactions that drive competence stimulating peptide (CSP)-ComD binding in Streptococcus pneumoniae" has been accepted for publication in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. Great work!

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June 7, 2018

Congratulations to Naiya for receiving the 2018 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship!

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May 19, 2018

Congratulations to Ryan, Tony and Lucia! Their review paper titled "Cyclic Peptides that Govern Signal Transduction Pathways: From Prokaryotes to Multi-Cellular Organisms" has been published at Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. Great job!

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May 18, 2018

Congratulations to Brooke for receiving the Undergraduate Research Travel Award to present at the ASM Microbe conference this June!

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May 15, 2018

Congratulations to Ryan! His figure/artwork is going to be used on the front cover of the next issue of the Journal of Bacteriology!

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Apr 25, 2018

Congratulations to Alec and Brooke for being selected to receive the 2018 INBRE Summer Research Grant!

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Apr 24, 2018

Congratulations to Alec for being awarded the Nevada Undergraduate Research Award (NURA)!

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Apr 3, 2018

Congratulations to Brittany for receiving the Henry Albert Service Award!

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Mar 16, 2018

Congratulations to Naiya on being designated as a Westfall Scholar by the UNR College of Science!

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Mar 16, 2018

Congratulations to Crissey! She has been accepted into a program to allow her to conduct research in Scotland this summer!

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Mar 16, 2018

Congratulations to Brooke for receiving an ASM travel award to attend the ASM Microbe conference!

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Mar 9, 2018

Congratulations to Naiya. She has been accepted to graduate school at Berkeley, Rochester, Stanford, and UC San Diego!

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Feb 7, 2018

Congratulations to Tony! His paper titled "Identification of Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus (biotype I) competence stimulating peptide pheromone" has been accepted by the Journal of Bacteriology. Excellent work!

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Feb 6, 2018

Congratulations to Brittany for receiving UNR's Undergraduate Research Travel Award!

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Feb 6, 2018

Congratulations to Dominic for receiving UNR's Postdoctoral Professional Development Award!

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Jan 5, 2018

Congratulations to Sally for being accepted to graduate school at Colorado State University!

 

2017

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Dec 15, 2017

Congratulations to Sally for being accepted to graduate school at McGill University!

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Dec 12, 2017

Congratulations to Crissey and Rory for being selected for the Nevada Undergraduate Research Award (NURA)!

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Nov 27, 2017

Congratulations to Brooke for placing 1st in the College of Science Poster Competition, Undergraduate Category! She also won the Daugherty-Westfall Undergraduate Research Award!

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Nov 27, 2017

Congratulations to Raihan for placing 3rd in the College of Science Poster Competition, Graduate Category!

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Nov 16, 2017

Congratulations to Crissey and Sally for receiving UNR's Undergraduate Research Travel Award!

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Nov 2, 2017

Congratulations to Yifang for receiving the GSA Research Grant in support of his NMR experiments!

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Oct 25, 2017

Congratulations to Yifang for receiving the 2017 John H. Nelson Graduate Scholarship!

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Oct 24, 2017

Congratulations to Tony for receiving the 2017 Jerry & Betty Wilson Chemistry Scholarship!

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Oct 23, 2017

Congratulations to Raihan for receiving the 2017 Hyung Kyu Shin Graduate Scholarship!

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Oct 13, 2017

Congratulations to Brittany, Brooke, Naiya, and Sally for being awarded the CaBRI Undergraduate Research Award!

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Oct 13, 2017

Congratulations to Yifang for receiving the GSA travel award!

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Sep 5, 2017

Congratulations to Bimal and Yifang for receiving the Therapeutic Peptide Symposium travel grant!

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Aug 22, 2017

Congratulations to Naiya for being awarded a travel scholarship to attend the National Diversity in STEM Conference (2017 SACNAS)!

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Aug 2, 2017

Congratulations to Bimal for receiving the UNR Graduate Student Association travel grant!

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July 28, 2017

Congratulation Dominic! His review paper titled "Recent Advances in GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Use in Diabetes Mellitus." was accepted to Drug Development Research. Great job!

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June 6, 2017

Congratulation Dominic, Brooke, and Crissey! Their paper titled "An Entirely Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis-Based Strategy for Synthesis of Gelatinase Biosynthesis-Activating Pheromone (GBAP) Analogue Libraries: Investigating the Structure-Activity Relationships of the Enterococcus faecalis Quorum Sensing Signal" was accepted to Organic Letters with stellar reviews! Great job!

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May 12, 2017

Congratulation to Brittany, Brooke, Naiya and Sally! They were all selected for the Nevada Undergraduate Research Award!

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May 3, 2017

Welcome to Rory - the new undergraduate student who joined the lab.

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Apr 25, 2017

Congratulation to Naiya for receiving the NV-INBRE Undergraduate Research Award!

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Apr 19, 2017

Congratulation to Sally and Brittany! They both received the NSF EPSCoR UROP Award!

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Mar 30, 2017

Congratulation to Dominic for receiving the American Peptide Symposium (APS) Travel Award!

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Mar 15, 2017

Welcome to Crissey - the new undergraduate student who joined the lab.

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Feb 21, 2017

Congratulation Yifang, Bimal, Lucia, Naiya, and Sally! Their paper titled "Structure-Activity Relationships of the Competence Stimulating Peptides (CSPs) in Streptococcus pneumoniae Reveal Motifs Critical for intra-group and cross-group ComD Receptor Activation" was accepted to ACS Chemical Biology! Way to go!

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Jan 18, 2017

Welcome to Brooke - the new undergraduate student who joined the lab.