Biochemistry at Wake Forest Univ. Med School

05/17/2022

Congratulations to Biochemistry graduates, Drs. Theresa Simermeyer and Stephanie Batalis, from the Hollis lab!
Graduation 2022

05/17/2022

Congratulations to Nichole Allred, Associate Professor in Biochemistry, for her recent publication:

Metabolomic architecture of obesity implicates metabolonic lactone sulfate in cardiometabolic disease.
Das SK, Ainsworth HC, Dimitrov L, Okut H, Comeau ME, Sharma N, Ng MCY, Norris JM, Chen YI, Wagenknecht LE, Bowden DW, Hsu FC, Taylor KD, Langefeld CD, Palmer ND.
Mol Metab. 2021 Dec;54:101342.

Identify and characterize circulating metabolite profiles associated with adiposity to inform precision medicine.Untargeted plasma metabolomic profiles in the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Family Study (IRASFS) Mexican American cohort (n = 1108) ...

04/20/2021

Congratulations to DOCTOR Wayne Hemphill from the Perrino lab! Dr. Hemphill is heading to the University of Colorado at Boulder to conduct post-doctoral research in the lab of Dr. Thomas Cech. Wishing you all the best (and more opportunities to talk about science in a party hat)!!

08/06/2020

Congratulations to DOCTOR Sean Simpson of the Perrino lab for the successful defense of his thesis, “T Cells Produce Type I Interferon in the TREX1 D18N Model of cGAS-STING-Dependent Interferonopathy.” The Biochemistry Dept wishes Dr. Simpson all the best for his post-doctoral research at UNC-Chapel Hill!

07/20/2020

Thanks to Dr. Hollis’s handiwork, the Hollis and Perrino labs are repping SAMHD1 and TREX1 masks!

10/31/2019

Happy Halloween from the department of biochemistry!!

03/14/2019

03/01/2019

Congratulations to Dr. Larry Daniel on his retirement after 41 years at Wake Forest!

02/14/2019

Happy Lab-entines Day to all our fellow science lovers!!

02/06/2019

Happy Lunar New Year! Thanks to undergraduate student Mei for decorating the Hollis lab.