The Penn State College of Medicine received a five-year, $20 million federal grant to investigate the harmful effects of alternative tobacco products, research that will help with better regulation and improve public health. The college is one of just seven sites...
We are one of the seven Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) grants in September 2023 to support research to inform the regulation of tobacco products. Jonathon Foulds and Joshua Muscat are PIs of the grant and Zachary Bitzer, Andrea Hobkirk, Jason Lian and...
Abbey Heinbaugh, Graduate Assistant Welcome Abbey to the lab.
Elisabeta Blandin is off to a position at Eurofins in Malvern PA. Good luck in your new position!
Farewell Beau McCarver. After a year in the lab (minus COVID) , Beau is off to Geissinger Medical School.
Tom Spratt is program chair for the Division of Chemical Toxicology of the American Chemical Society for 2019. The program for the meeting in San Diego in August , 2019 is below Sunday , August 25, 2019. Translation Aspects of DNA Repair. TOXI 1. 8:35 AM. Harry B Gray...
The Mesilla Chemistry Workshops are held each year with a different emphasis This year, the workshop was organized by Natalia Tretyakova and Yinsheng Wang. The topic was Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions. The title of Tom’s talk was DNA polymerase kappa...
Tom Spratt is program chair for the Division of Chemical Toxicology of the American Chemical Society for 2017 and 2018. The program for the meeting in Boston in August , 2018 is below Keynote Speaker John Essignamm, MIT Chemical Research in Toxicology, Young...
A.S. Prakasha Gowda and Thomas E. Spratt (2107) Active Site Interactions Impact Phosphoryl Transfer during Replication of Damaged and Undamaged DNA by Escherichia coli DNA Polymerase I. Chem. Res. Toxicol. 30 2033-2048 Replicative DNA polymerases are able to...
We have three publications in the Chemical Research in Toxicology’s virtual issue on DNA polymerases DNA Polymerases: From Molecular Mechanisms to Human Diseases http://pubs.acs.org/page/vi/dnapol.html “DNA polymerases play a central role in maintaining...
