Lab News
Dr. Jeffery's teaching plans
Spring 2024: Dr. Jeffery is on sabbatical at Northeastern University in Boston, focusing on research and not teaching courses
Fall 2024 and Spring 2025: Dr. Jeffery is planning to serve as the coordinator for Bios399 (Undergraduate Research) for the department
also Spring 2025: Dr. Jeffery is planning to teach Bios454/Chem454 Biochemistry II
Fall 2024 and Spring 2025: Dr. Jeffery is planning to serve as the coordinator for Bios399 (Undergraduate Research) for the department
also Spring 2025: Dr. Jeffery is planning to teach Bios454/Chem454 Biochemistry II
Team Members' News
Congratulations to NIcole for receiving a Biology Department Graduate Research Award for 2024!
Connie gave a poster and chaired a session at the MBN24 meeting at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on April 23, 2024.
Congratulations to Alquama Lokhandwala on her new job as a Bioinformatics Research Specialist at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh! Alquama was an OPT student working with Connie during her sabbatical at Northeastern in the spring of 2024.
Also in 2023, Connie and Nicole visit NCCAT in Manhattan to learn Cryo-EM
Congratulations to Alquama Lokhandwala on her new job as a Bioinformatics Research Specialist at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh! Alquama was an OPT student working with Connie during her sabbatical at Northeastern in the spring of 2024.
Also in 2023, Connie and Nicole visit NCCAT in Manhattan to learn Cryo-EM
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November, 2023 - Congratulations to Nicole, Krupa, and Amina (and Connie) for their publication "Moonlighting Proteins: Diverse Functions Found in Fungi" in the Journal of Fungi
October, 2023 - Lab Reunion for Petsko/Ringe lab hosted by the PDB at Rutgers in New Jersey. AND - Congratulations to Greg Petsko for receiving the Presidential Medal of Science!
September, 2023 - Connie gave a departmental seminar at the University of Wyoming in Laramie
July, 2023 - Connie gave seminars at Splicing in Portugal and the ISCB meeting in Lyon, France.
2023 - Connie gave a platform talk at the Biophysical Society meeting in San Diego in February
September, 2023 - Connie gave a departmental seminar at the University of Wyoming in Laramie
July, 2023 - Connie gave seminars at Splicing in Portugal and the ISCB meeting in Lyon, France.
2023 - Connie gave a platform talk at the Biophysical Society meeting in San Diego in February
2022 - New Semester/September lab lunch in Greektown
2022 - Congratulations to Pritha for starting her first official year in grad school in our department!
2022 - Congratulations to Krupa and Karina for winning Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Awards for the fall semester!
2022 - Connie gave a talk and a poster about Moonlighting Proteins at the ISMB/ISCB meeting in Madison
2022 - Connie presented a poster and chaired a session on Mini-Proteins at the Protein Society meeting in San Francisco.
2022 - Congratulations to Pritha for starting her first official year in grad school in our department!
2022 - Congratulations to Krupa and Karina for winning Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Awards for the fall semester!
2022 - Connie gave a talk and a poster about Moonlighting Proteins at the ISMB/ISCB meeting in Madison
2022 - Connie presented a poster and chaired a session on Mini-Proteins at the Protein Society meeting in San Francisco.
Connie volunteered as a poster judge at the Protein Society meeting in San Francisco 2022
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Nicole's Graduate Student Awards 2022
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2022 - Congratulations to Nicole for receiving the Biology Department Graduate Teaching Award, Graduate Research Award, and the Diversity & Inclusion Award!
2022 - Nicole presented a poster on Moonlighting Proteins at the Midwest Protein Folding meeting at Notre Dame colleg.
2022 - Congratulations to Cesar for being selected for the UIC Post-bac program for the 2022-2023 academic year!
2022 - Congratulations to Victoria for Completing her Undergraduate Capstone Thesis!
2022 - Congratulations to Connie for being elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2021 - Congratulations to Nicole for her paper being accepted for publication!
2021 - Congratulations to Haipeng for defending his Ph.D. thesis in May! Thesis title: “In Silico Analyses of Gene Expression and Protein Structure/Function and Applications in Disease”
2021 Connie won a UIC LAS Diversity Initiative Award, which will enable 8 undergrads to join a learning and research experience in the lab during the 2021-22 academic year
2021 - Congratulations to Nina, Maheen, and Emily for graduating!
2021 - Congratulations to Maheen for completing her Honors Capstone Project in May! on "Malate Dehydrogenase 2, a Moonlighting Protein"
2021 -" Cheers! for Volunteers - Connie Jeffery", in the BPS Bulletin, The Newsletter of the Biophysical Society,
2021 - Connie's online webinar: “Developing an inter-institutional student research opportunity in biophysics during the COVID era: Updating MoonProt From Home: An Online Student Research Project During the COVID-19 Pandemic” Webinar Sponsored by the Biophysicist, March 2021
2021 Congratulations to Chang, Haipeng, and all the students for their publication in Nucleic Acids Research: Chen C, H Liu, S Zabad, N Rivera, E Rowin, M Hassan, SM Gomez De Jesus, PS Llinás Santos, K Kravchenko, M Mikhova, S Ketterer, A Shen, S Shen, E Navas, B Horan, J Raudsepp, CJ Jeffery (2021) MoonProt 3.0: an update of the moonlighting proteins database, Nucleic Acids Research, gkaa1101.
2020 Connie won a Women in Bio (WIB) Diversity and Inclusion Award, which paid for 11 undergraduates and 2 graduate students to attend the Biophysical Society meeting in 2020 and receive membership in the society for the year
2020 Congratulations to Maheen Hassan, who won an Honors College Research Grant
2020 Congratulations to Haipeng for his publication: Liu H, and CJ Jeffery. (2020) Moonlighting Proteins in the Fuzzy Logic of Cellular Metabolism. Molecules. 25(15):3440. doi: 10.3390/molecules25153440. PMID: 32751110; PMCID: PMC7435893.
2020 the lab welcomed Paola Llinas and Stephanie Gomez as summer research opportunities students (SROP)
2020 Connie's Paper was included in Special Virtual Issue of Protein Science featuring Outstanding Research Articles authored by Women in Honor of International Women’s Day 2020
2020 the lab welcomed Efose Oriaifo, a visiting MIT undergraduate for an Externship in January
2019 Chang Chen won an travel award to attend the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress
2019 Connie was interviewed for the Ask me Anything for 1000Girls/1000Futures Sept. 8 – 14, 2019 – online typed discussion with high school students and mentors with the 1000Girls/1000Futures program with the New York Academy of Science
2018 Interview with Prof. Jeffery: A Scientist Reflects on Recent ΦBK Inductions and the Importance of the Liberal Arts. By Hoda Fakhari (2018) The Key Reporter, Phi Beta Kappa Society
http://www.keyreporter.org/PbkNews/PbkNews/Details/2545.html
2018 “Connie Jeffery”, Biophysicist in Profile, BPS Bulletin, The Newsletter of the Biophysical Society, December, 2018
2018 Connie was a Panelist on a Webinar about Scientific Collaboration. hosted by Aarti Kluvar for 1000Girls/1000Futures, 2018
2018 MoonProt was added to Database Commons in 2018 http://bigd.big.ac.cn/databasecommons/database/edit/?name=MoonProt&token=$2a$10$203Kuh1jMiN5cLRJ08KWWuePkM43rngQVQ28Nnx96aVHamZedpVDC&uid=117&[email protected]
2018 Connie Won a UIC Cancer Center Cancer Biology Pilot Grant (PI)
2017 Connie won a “Making a Difference in Meaningful Ways”award from Women In the Enterprise of Science and Technology (WEST)
2017 Connie won a LAS Faculty of Science Award
2022 - Nicole presented a poster on Moonlighting Proteins at the Midwest Protein Folding meeting at Notre Dame colleg.
2022 - Congratulations to Cesar for being selected for the UIC Post-bac program for the 2022-2023 academic year!
2022 - Congratulations to Victoria for Completing her Undergraduate Capstone Thesis!
2022 - Congratulations to Connie for being elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2021 - Congratulations to Nicole for her paper being accepted for publication!
2021 - Congratulations to Haipeng for defending his Ph.D. thesis in May! Thesis title: “In Silico Analyses of Gene Expression and Protein Structure/Function and Applications in Disease”
2021 Connie won a UIC LAS Diversity Initiative Award, which will enable 8 undergrads to join a learning and research experience in the lab during the 2021-22 academic year
2021 - Congratulations to Nina, Maheen, and Emily for graduating!
2021 - Congratulations to Maheen for completing her Honors Capstone Project in May! on "Malate Dehydrogenase 2, a Moonlighting Protein"
2021 -" Cheers! for Volunteers - Connie Jeffery", in the BPS Bulletin, The Newsletter of the Biophysical Society,
2021 - Connie's online webinar: “Developing an inter-institutional student research opportunity in biophysics during the COVID era: Updating MoonProt From Home: An Online Student Research Project During the COVID-19 Pandemic” Webinar Sponsored by the Biophysicist, March 2021
2021 Congratulations to Chang, Haipeng, and all the students for their publication in Nucleic Acids Research: Chen C, H Liu, S Zabad, N Rivera, E Rowin, M Hassan, SM Gomez De Jesus, PS Llinás Santos, K Kravchenko, M Mikhova, S Ketterer, A Shen, S Shen, E Navas, B Horan, J Raudsepp, CJ Jeffery (2021) MoonProt 3.0: an update of the moonlighting proteins database, Nucleic Acids Research, gkaa1101.
2020 Connie won a Women in Bio (WIB) Diversity and Inclusion Award, which paid for 11 undergraduates and 2 graduate students to attend the Biophysical Society meeting in 2020 and receive membership in the society for the year
2020 Congratulations to Maheen Hassan, who won an Honors College Research Grant
2020 Congratulations to Haipeng for his publication: Liu H, and CJ Jeffery. (2020) Moonlighting Proteins in the Fuzzy Logic of Cellular Metabolism. Molecules. 25(15):3440. doi: 10.3390/molecules25153440. PMID: 32751110; PMCID: PMC7435893.
2020 the lab welcomed Paola Llinas and Stephanie Gomez as summer research opportunities students (SROP)
2020 Connie's Paper was included in Special Virtual Issue of Protein Science featuring Outstanding Research Articles authored by Women in Honor of International Women’s Day 2020
2020 the lab welcomed Efose Oriaifo, a visiting MIT undergraduate for an Externship in January
2019 Chang Chen won an travel award to attend the Crohn’s and Colitis Congress
2019 Connie was interviewed for the Ask me Anything for 1000Girls/1000Futures Sept. 8 – 14, 2019 – online typed discussion with high school students and mentors with the 1000Girls/1000Futures program with the New York Academy of Science
2018 Interview with Prof. Jeffery: A Scientist Reflects on Recent ΦBK Inductions and the Importance of the Liberal Arts. By Hoda Fakhari (2018) The Key Reporter, Phi Beta Kappa Society
http://www.keyreporter.org/PbkNews/PbkNews/Details/2545.html
2018 “Connie Jeffery”, Biophysicist in Profile, BPS Bulletin, The Newsletter of the Biophysical Society, December, 2018
2018 Connie was a Panelist on a Webinar about Scientific Collaboration. hosted by Aarti Kluvar for 1000Girls/1000Futures, 2018
2018 MoonProt was added to Database Commons in 2018 http://bigd.big.ac.cn/databasecommons/database/edit/?name=MoonProt&token=$2a$10$203Kuh1jMiN5cLRJ08KWWuePkM43rngQVQ28Nnx96aVHamZedpVDC&uid=117&[email protected]
2018 Connie Won a UIC Cancer Center Cancer Biology Pilot Grant (PI)
2017 Connie won a “Making a Difference in Meaningful Ways”award from Women In the Enterprise of Science and Technology (WEST)
2017 Connie won a LAS Faculty of Science Award
