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Metabolic Enzymes, Rare Diseases & Drug Discovery

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I aim to identify and optimise small molecule compound hits, for a metabolic enzyme, by developing a workflow that includes DEL screening, machine learning and cryo EM.

I am studying a multiprotein complex associated with rare metabolic diseases. I aim to understand the structural features of the proteins of the complex and their interactions using cryo EM and biophysical assays.

I am using rationalised drug design in combination with structural biology and biophysical assays to identify and develop a novel therapeutic target for Pyridoxine-dependent Epilepsy, a rare disorder of lysine metabolism .

I combine structural biology and biophysical assays to characterise and optimise inhibitors for a key member of the complement cascade, as novel therapeutic target for rare blood and immune disorders .

I aim to advance new treatment of rare metabolic disorders through the discovery of novel binding sites on disease-associated enzymes. I specialise in fragment screening by X-ray crystallography, paired with enzyme activity and binding assays.

I use structural and biochemical techniques to answer fundamental questions of metabolic enzyme functions, with a special focus on revealing the hidden world of shape shifting enzymes and multiprotein complexes using cryo EM.

I use CRISPR Knock-In technology to insert affinity tags to endogenous proteins for purification, cryo-EM and interaction studies, hoping to gain a deeper understanding of protein complexes associated with genetic diseases.

I use the c rystallographic approach to develop pharmacological chaperones that target a metabolic enzyme, with the goal of developing treatments for a protein misfolding disorder.

Wyatt specialises in the use of structural, biochemical and chemical biology approaches to study human metabolic enzymes and associated rare diseases. He is currently Professor of Structural Biology at the Newcastle University Biosciences Institute.

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Ian Hope (Postdoc 2022-2024), Postdoc at Newcastle University Medicinal Chemistry team

Manisha Yadav (Postdoc 2022-2023), Scientist at T-Therapeutics

Jesse Coker (DPhil 2017-2021), Postdoc at Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Henry Bailey (DPhil 2016-2020), Postdoc at Goethe University Frankfurt, Ivan Dikic’s group

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William Foster (Research Technician 2018-2020), PhD candidate at Sussex University

Jack Kelly (DPhil 2016-2020), Scientist at Casma Therapeutics

Catherine Tham (Research assistant 2019-2020), Senior Scientist at Evotec

Nicolas Fox (Postdoc 2015-2019), Senior Scientist at Merck Inc

Minghao Zhang (Research technician 2017-2019), Research Assistant at Target Discovery Institute, Oxford

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The Canadian government has pledged a significant investment in its graduate students and postdoctoral scholars after more than two decades of stagnation . Its 2024 budget proposal , announced on 16 April , provides C$825 million (£481 million) over the next five years to support next-generation researchers by increasing both the number and value of stipends. However, the pay rise will only be seen by graduates who win scarce Tri-Council grants, although it is hoped that as these stipends rise others will need to too to compete.

The budget, which the House of Commons must pass before it is finalised, would provide nearly C$200 million per year, increasing annual master’s and PhD scholarships to $27,000 and $40,000, respectively, and postdoctoral fellowships to $70,000. The budget’s passage is not guaranteed – it needs the support of at least one of three political parties other than the ruling Liberal party.

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Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, and Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, presented the budget on 16 April. The package included funding that ended over 20 years of stagnation in PhD and postdoctoral stipends

The planned increases represent a dramatic jump. Currently, the typical annual stipend in Canada is around C$17,500 for master’s students, C$24,000 for PhDs and C$45,000 for postdocs. The government is also proposing C$1.8 billion to the different funding agencies in Canada over five years to increase core research grant funding.

The funding surge is expected to increase the number of research scholarships and fellowships provided by the government, building to approximately 1720 more graduate students or fellows benefiting each year.

Graduate student and postdoc pay in Canada has remained unchanged for over 20 years . A national survey last year by the Ottawa Science Policy Network found that nearly 90% of graduate students in the country reported feeling stressed and anxious about their finances, and almost one-third said they have considered leaving academia due to financial pressures.

‘These fellowships had the same value for many years, which means their ability to support students had, in many cases, fallen below a livable amount,’ explains Bruce Arndtsen , a chemistry professor at McGill University. ‘Many departments and institutions therefore needed to top these fellowships up from research grants simply to get to our normal stipend level.’

Most chemistry graduates ineligible for raise

Such a significant increase to graduate student stipends in Canada will give top students a competitive stipend and enable Canada to better retain these students, Arndtsen adds. ‘It will also allow the use of grant funds to better support their research activities rather than topping their fellowship up to needed levels.’

However, he notes that these stipend increases will only apply to the select few who win prestigious Tri-Council awards, and the majority of chemistry graduate students in Canada do not receive these top fellowships but are instead paid from research grants. In fact, Arndtsen notes that funding for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s major chemistry funding programme has also remained stagnant for decades, and he expresses hope that these grants will receive a similar increase in the near term.

Anne Labarre , a sixth-year PhD chemistry student at McGill who is involved in computational drug discovery, celebrated the government’s announcement. Labarre says the PhD stipends at her chemistry department are currently fixed at around C$26,000 per year and emphasises that this increase is significant considering the recent inflation and rent increases in Montreal.

Matthew Berg, who received a PhD in biochemistry from Western University in Canada in 2021 and is now a postdoc at the University of Washington in the US, is optimistic. ‘These increases are going to set the bar for where funding should be for trainees in the sciences and in graduate school,’ he states. ‘Right now, a lot of Canadian graduate students struggle,’ Berg continues. ‘We’ve heard stories of students having to rely on food banks and different support systems in order to just make it through their degree.’

Last year there was a nationwide walkout of students and academics in Canada who were demanding more federal funding for graduate students and postdoc researchers. This month, graduate teaching assistants at Western University went on strike to protest what they deemed unfair wages. Meanwhile, a union representing striking academic workers at York University in Toronto, including teaching assistants and graduate workers, appeared to have reached a tentative deal on 14 April after being on strike over pay since late February.

Berg says he was lucky – he received one of one of the elusive federal awards to support him as a PhD candidate in Canada, which he says was worth about C$35,000 annually for three years. As a postdoc in the US, Berg says he currently receives significantly better compensation, with a stipend equivalent to more than C$90,000.

‘My dream after my PhD is to move to back to Canada and be a professor there,’ he says. ‘But it does make me nervous how difficult it is to get funding there and I don’t want to run a lab where my students are struggling to survive.’

Michel Cayouette , the vice president of research and academic affairs at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, says the C$1.8 billion funding boost is great news but will be insufficient to allow supervisors to increase the value of their trainees’ stipends to the amounts announced for award recipients. ‘This means that the vast majority of students and postdocs will continue to struggle financially,’ Cayouette warns. ‘There is therefore more work to do in coming years to fill the gap in funding and ensure that all trainees receive a liveable wage.’

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A doctoral student in physics at The University of Texas at Arlington received a top award at an international conference for his research about the effects of a solar eclipse on space weather.

Yu Hong earned an Outstanding Student Presentation Awards at the American Geophysics Union (AGU) 2023 Meeting in San Francisco in December. More than 25,000 participated in the competition, with only two percent of students receiving the OSPA distinction.

“I was surprised and excited to win, since this was my first time participating the AGU OSPA competition,” Hong said. “I've seen a lot of outstanding posters in the gallery and I knew it would be very competitive.”

Hong’s project was titled “Inter-Hemispheric Asymmetry (IHA) in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System Due to the December 04, 2021 Solar Eclipse: MHD-GCM Coupled Simulations”. Its focus was on exploring the different responses of the northern and southern hemispheres — known as “inter-hemispheric asymmetry” — during the solar eclipse which occurred in Antarctica on December 4, 2021.

Hong’s co-authors include his faculty supervisor, Yue Deng, UTA professor of physics, as well as collaborators from the University of Michigan, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the University of Newcastle in Australia.

“We aim to better integrate the modeling between the ionosphere and the magnetosphere, bridging two fields that have traditionally operated independently,” Hong said. “Using realistic ionospheric conductance will help us to understand the eclipse effect from Earth’s upper atmosphere to the magnetosphere.”

As stated in the project abstract, solar eclipses provide scientists with unique opportunities to investigate the geospace environment. Geospace is the region of space near Earth and includes the upper atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere. The impact on Earth’s ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) system due to rapidly changing solar radiation is well understood, but the effects of eclipses on magnetosphere-ionosphere (MI) coupling dynamics by altering the conductivity has not been fully studied.

Through their research, Hong and his co-authors sought to help quantify the significance of inter-hemispheric asymmetries in the global IT system and their effects on the MI system to provide new insights into the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling process under extraordinary solar conditions.

During the April 8 total solar eclipse which was visible in the D-FW Metroplex, Hong was on the UTA campus working with students visiting from the University of Michigan. They used numerical models to predict the solar corona, which is the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere and normally cannot be seen by the naked eye. The corona is visible during the short period of totality during a solar eclipse. The students used modeling tools from UM’s Space Weather Modeling Framework to study the whole Sun-to-Earth system.

The AGU award isn’t the first time Hong’s research has been honored. In 2022 he won first place in the poster competition at the international 2022 CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) Workshop. That same summer he was chosen for the highly selective Graduate Visitor Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Using radar and satellite data as well as the global ionosphere-thermosphere model (GITM) and the NCAR 3D-electrodynamo model, he studied low-latitude electrodynamics and the hemispherically asymmetric storm-time responses in the upper atmosphere. In addition, he was one of the 2020 recipients of the Outstanding Graduate Presentation Award from the Texas Section of the American Physical Society (APS).

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The research will focus on developing advanced AI techniques to improve analysis and interpretation of data in simulation-based training scenarios for Defence. The project aims to advance AI methodologies to optimise training effectiveness and system capabilities in simulated environments.

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A funded PhD position is available to develop novel imaging techniques for wound monitoring including algorithms for image processing and prediction. The PhD student will become part of a large multidisciplinary team who are focused on improving outcomes for patients with chronic wounds.

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The project will develop new deep learning methods to improve machine vision comprising several sensors in collaboration with industry partners 4AI Systems and 4Tel Pty Ltd.

Quantifying the Hofmeister Series in Complex Electrolytes

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This project will apply quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics simulations to the study of Hofmeister and specific ion effects in complex electrolytes, including non-aqueous solvents, deep eutectic solvents and ionic liquids.

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Hannah Kenagy and Melissa Ramirez join Department of Chemistry

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (04/22/2024) – The Department of Chemistry will welcome Dr. Hannah Kenagy and Dr. Melissa Ramirez to the faculty in January 2025. Both chemists will enter the department as Assistant Professors. 

Hannah S. Kenagy will join the department in January 2025 after completion of her postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she currently works as an NSF AGS Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Jesse Kroll and Prof. Colette Heald. Prior to her current position at MIT, Kenagy completed her PhD at the University of California Berkeley in 2021 with Ronald Cohen and her BS in Chemistry and the University of Chicago in 2016. 

At the University of Minnesota, the Kenagy research group will focus on atmospheric chemistry. Kenagy’s research explores how emissions into the atmosphere get physically and chemically transformed into gases and particles with impacts on air quality and climate. “We will use an integrated toolset for thinking about these questions, including lab experiments, field observations, and multi-scale modeling,” Kenagy says. “In particular, we’ll focus on questions regarding how atmospheric chemistry and composition are changing as we reduce our reliance on fossil fuel combustion and as temperatures continue to rise with climate change. Integrating measurements and models together will enable us to push forward our understanding of this changing chemistry.”

Kenagy is passionate about integrating environmental chemistry learning opportunities in her classrooms to make real-world connections for students. “Because so much of my research is relevant to air quality and climate – things that impact people’s daily lives, often inequitably – outreach is a really key component of my group’s work,” Kenagy says. She also engages in ongoing efforts to make science more accessible, and to ensure all students have the resources they need to thrive and develop a sense of belonging in science.

The UMN Department of Chemistry’s strong focus on environmental chemistry and the opportunities to engage in interdisciplinary research make the move to Minnesota particularly exciting for Kenagy. “I’m looking forward to joining a university with atmospheric scientists in a variety of departments across both the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. I also plan to make some measurements of urban chemistry across the Twin Cities, a unique environment that is impacted by agricultural and biogenic emissions in addition to more typical urban emissions. This mix of emissions makes the Twin Cities an interesting place to study the air!”

When she’s not busy in the office and lab, Kenagy loves being outside, hiking and swimming. She also loves music – she plays piano and sings – and cooking.  You can read more about Kenagy here.

Melissa Ramirez will also make her move to Minnesota in January of 2025. Currently, Ramirez is an NIH K99/R00 MOSAIC Scholar, NSF MPS-Ascend Fellow, and Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar in the laboratory of Prof. Brian Stoltz at the California Institute of Technology, where her research focuses on enantioselective quaternary center formation using experiments and computations. Before her postdoctoral position, Ramirez completed her PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles with Prof. Ken Houk and Prof. Neil Garg in 2021 and her BA in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. 

The Ramirez laboratory at UMN will develop experimental and computational approaches to address challenges associated with efficiency in the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant small molecules. “The mission of my research program will be to establish synthetic methods in the areas of main group catalysis, asymmetric organocatalysis, and transition metal photochemistry with the aid of computations,” Ramirez writes. “Students trained in my lab will develop strong skills in synthetic and computational organic chemistry with a focus on reaction development. This synergistic skillset in synthesis and computations will also give rise to a range of opportunities for collaboration with the broader scientific community.” Ramirez aims to bridge synthesis and catalysis research with computational chemistry at UMN.

Ramirez says an important goal for her as a professor will be to challenge students, support them, and make them feel connected to the classroom regardless of their background. “Throughout my academic career, some of the most effective teachers I have had are those who believed in my potential even when I experienced self-doubt or failure,” Ramirez says. She is also looking forward to collaborating with the Chemistry Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee to explore ways to better connect students with resources to help remove barriers to their science education and career. “I am excited to help recruit a diverse student body by helping organize the  CheMNext session and by continuing my close relationship with organizations such as the Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering and Científico Latino, which I have served on the organizational board for during my postdoc,” Ramirez says.

When she’s not on campus, Ramirez enjoys staying active. She’s an avid runner, loves Peloton, and likes taking high-intensity interval training (HIIT) classes.  You can learn more about Ramirez here.

The hiring of Kenagy and Ramirez follows the recent announcement of Dr. Jan-Niklas Boyn and Dr. Kade Head-Marsden joining the faculty in Fall 2024 . These four incoming Gophers will bring the Department of Chemistry total of new faculty hires to nine over the past three years. We are excited for these outstanding chemists to join our community, and be part of the ongoing growth of the College of Science and Engineering on the UMN-TC campus.

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