Congratulations to Emily Schutsky for being awarded the P. Leslie Dutton Award for Outstanding Publication!
Former lab member Emily Schutsky returned to speak at the 36th annual George W. Raiziss Retreat for the department of biochemistry and biophysics! Her talk was titled “Nondestructive, base-resolution sequencing of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine using a DNA deaminase.” The full paper can be found here (PMID: 30295673).
Dr. George W. Raiziss 36th Annual Retreat
The Kohli lab attended the 36th annual Dr. George W. Raiziss Retreat, hosted by the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the University of Pennsylvania. Congratulations to:
Emily Schutsky for her P. Leslie Dutton Award for Outstanding Publication and her talk titled "Nondestructive, base-resolution sequencing of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine using a DNA deaminase”
Michael Cory for second place poster award in the area of biophysics with the title “The “SOS Signal”, defining the minimal RecA*-LexA complex”
Congrats to Monica Liu on matching at Harvard Brigham and Women's Hospital for her Fellowship!
Congratulations to Kiara for her art show presentation!
Kiara presented an art installation titled “Change without notice” at a local art show titled “From Now to Now”




Rahul Kohli is awarded the 2020 American Chemical Society Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
Michael Cory is awarded a T32 Training Grant in Microbial Pathogenesis and Genomics
Congratulations to all our graduating lab members!
Zachary Hostetler (L) and Jamie DeNizio (R) dawning their graduation gowns
Jamie DeNizio Defends Her Thesis
Jamie defended her thesis titled: “Nucleobase, nucleoside, and neighboring nucleotides: Intrinsic preferences for TET enzyme-mediated oxidation of 5-methylctosine”
Congratulations to Mandie Samuels for a successful thesis defense!
Mandie defended her thesis tiled “Non-canonical Functions of the Bacterial SOS Response“