The Kothe group has an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow Position investigating RNA Modifications. Note, that after 15 years of operation at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, the Kothe group will move soon to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. For details on the position and how to apply, please see the attached position description.
The Kothe lab had its third, virtual M.Sc. defense in the pandemic: congratulations, Hope, on a successful defense under challenging circumstances! Hope has studied rRNA pseudouridylation in bacteria.
Congratulations, Tim, on successfully defending your M.Sc. thesis and providing a great thesis! Tim is investigationg the formation and function of the snR30 H/ACA ribonucleoprotein during ribosome biogenesis.
Damian has received one of five prestigious Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarships this year at the University of Lethbridge for his M.Sc. studies in tRNA modifications and protein engineering.
This summer, the Kothe group carefully discussed our values and understandings regarding equity, diversity and inclusion taking an inter-sectional approach. As a result, we adopted a poster expressing our values and reflecting our context in Alberta, Canada. We hope that our discussions and our poster can inspire others to increase awareness and conscious action towards equity, diversity and inclusion.
On RNA Day 2019, i.e. August 1st 2019, all members of the Kothe lab signed our first Lab Manual!
We are very proud of this document that we have collectively developed over the summer in several team lunch meetings. Together, we have defined our goals and vision on how to interact as a product team of RNA researchers. And of course, we have tried to capture all these many previously unwritten rules and pieces of wisdom to make life much easier for new lab members in the future.
Check it out, but please don't copy without asking us for permission first. Thank you!
Doug Turnbull's paper on the Stabilization of [WF5]+ by Bidentate N-Donor Ligands got accepted in Angewandte Chemie and is now published online. Congratulations Doug!
Applications are invited from students interested in doing M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Saurya Das and Dr. Pasquale Bosso, starting January 2020. Potential research topics will be Quantum Gravity Theory and Phenomenology and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Read more about M.Sc. and Ph.D. positions in Theoretical Physics
