This is the homepage for James R. Horn's lab in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Illinois University. Additional information can be found on J. Horn's department page and the contact and shipping page. J. Horn is also a faculty associate of the Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Studies at NIU



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Horn Lab News

April 24 2012: Undergraduate research students Abby Gaebler, Alex Terry, James Lee, Kathy Bujarska, Shamika Olivares, and Madeline Tenison present their research at NIU's Undergraduate Research Day. Abby Gaebler and James Lee were awarded Honorable Mention. Nice job all!

April 2012: Graduate student Megan Murtaugh visits Washington DC to promote science, engineering and technology

April 2012: Congratulations to Sean Fanning for successfully defending his dissertation.

March 2012: Congrats to PhD student Megan Murtaugh on being awarded a Dissertation Completion Award

January 2012: Derek Burnet joins the Horn lab

October 2011: The Horn lab welcomes Shamika Olivares as a Research Rookie.

September 2011: Fanning, Murtaugh, Smith, Martin, and Horn attend and present their research at the 25th Annual Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics. PICTURE.

August 2011: Our paper, "A Combinatorial Histidine Scanning Library Approach to Engineer Highly pH-Dependent Protein Switches," by Murtaugh, et. al. is highlighted as the cover art for the September issue of Protein Science.

July 2011: Megan's paper (which includes co-authors PhD candidate Sean and undergraduates Alex and Tressa) "A Combinatorial Histidine Scanning Library Approach to Engineer Highly pH-Dependent Protein Switches" was accepted to Protein Science.

June 2011: Fanning and Horn's paper examining a cryptic anti-hapten VHH binding site is highlighted as the cover art in the July 2011 issue of Protein Science.

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