ChookLab @ChookLab
Chook Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center chooklab.org/labwebsite/hom… Joined May 2021-
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Congratulations, Drs. @JennyJiou and Gonzalez!
Big week for @ChookLab! Congrats to Dr. @JennyJiou and Dr. Abner Gonzalez for the successful defense your theses!
Congrats to our Posdoc @NatEBernardes1 on her 2022 Alfred and Mabel Gilman Memorial Awards for Excellence in Research!!!
3/3 Much gratitude and pride for Chook lab members especially PhD student @JennyJiou for the multi-year hard work of bringing CryoEM to @ChookLab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… -
Hot off the press...new publication from @ChookLab! Congratulations to @NatEBernardes1! Structure of IMPORTIN-4 bound to the H3–H4–ASF1 histone–histone chaperone complex pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Finally back to in person MB Symposium! Big congrats to @JennyJiou for winning "Best Talk!"
From our May issue #Review by Casey E. Wing, Ho Yee Joyce Fung & Yuh Min Chook expertly reviewing nucleocytoplasmic transport by karyopherins #Nuclear_Transport #exportin #importin #karyopherin @ChookLab @yuhminchook @UTSWGradSchool @MolBiophysUTSW go.nature.com/3KxxLnM
Check it out: preprint describing the first Cryo-EM structure from our lab: Importin-4 bound to the complex Asf1-H3-H4, from our postdoc @NatEBernardes1 @ChookLab @MolBiophysUTSW @biorxivpreprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Structure of Importin-4 bound to the H3-H4·ASF1 histone·histone chaperone complex biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Check out this cool Importin structure in a preprint by Chook Lab Postdoc Natalia Bernades!
Congrats to Drs. Fung and Yang on the cutest honorary member of the @ChookLab
Wishing congratulations to Chook Lab alumnus, @SCF13715659 on his new position as a Principal Scientist in the Translational Sciences Department at @SanofiUS !
New #Review by Casey E. Wing, Ho Yee Joyce Fung & Yuh Min Chook expertly reviewing mechanisms of nucleocytoplasmic transport by karyopherins #Nuclear_Transport #exportin #importin #karyopherin @ChookLab @yuhminchook @UTSWGradSchool @MolBiophysUTSW go.nature.com/3KxxLnM
Check the new nuclear transport review recently published by our lab:
We are so excited about our new postbac program, starting next summer! utsouthwestern.edu/ctplus/stories…
The Chook Lab is celebrating a big milestone today, we hit the big 2-0! Check out what we have been up to the past 20 years: chooklab.org/labwebsite/hom…
Awesome! 👇👇👇Especially because TWO @MolBiophysUTSW faculty (Chad Brautigam (who is behind @GUSSIsMind) and Kim Reynolds @kimreynolds_lab) are among the awardees. We have a bunch of great educators in the program. Who's next? 👩🏫👨🏫
Awesome! 👇👇👇Especially because TWO @MolBiophysUTSW faculty (Chad Brautigam (who is behind @GUSSIsMind) and Kim Reynolds @kimreynolds_lab) are among the awardees. We have a bunch of great educators in the program. Who's next? 👩🏫👨🏫

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