Lab News
November 19, 2025: Shilpa Bera, BMMB graduate student, joins the Murakami’s lab. Welcome Shilpa.
November 1, 2025: Katsu Murakami is appointed to the Stanley R. Person Professorship of Molecular Biology (ECoS News).
September 4, 2025: A paper reporting the cryo-EM structure and RNA probing of archaeal ribosome is published (JBC).
August 20, 2025: Yun Song received the 2025 Neil C. Patel Changemaker Scholarship.
May 5, 2025: Jacob Orrico received the Gerard A. Hauser Award for best poster presentation at Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition.
February 22, 2025: A paper reporting the cryo-EM structure of human DNA polymerase δ is published (JBC).
February 5, 2025: Katsu Murakami is appointed as Director of Center for Structural Biology, Penn State Huck Institutes of Life Science.
November 1, 2024: Manju Narwal is promoted to being an Assistant Research Professor.
June 11-16, 2023: Manju Narwal, Rishi Vishwakarma and George Fordjour presented their researches at the Gordon Research Conference “Mechanism of Microbial Transcription”
April 10, 2023: A paper reporting the SARS_CoV_2 main protease (Mpro) and polyprotein interaction is published (JBC). Press release (Penn State News).
February 7, 2023: A paper reporting the allosteric mechanism of NusG-dependent transcription pausing is published (PNAS).
January 1, 2023: Natalie Smith (MCIBS) and George Fordjour (BMMB) joined the Murakami lab as graduate students
Dec 15, 2018: Wenxi An graduated Penn State with an honor, Magna Cum Laude, for top 6% of her graduation class in the College of Science. Congratulations!
Sept 20, 2018: A paper reporting the mechanism of action of kanglemycin A, a naturally occurring antibiotic active against drug-resistant tuberculosis, is published in Molecular Cell.
February 22, 2018: A paper reporting the crystal structure of E. coli RNA polymerase and DksA/ppGpp complex is published in Molecular Cell.
November 09, 2017: Yeonoh Shin will give a seminar (12:05 pm, 107 Wartik Laboratory) “Structural and Biochemical Studies of Bacterial RNA Polymerase Engaged in Reiterative Transcription during Transcript Initiation at pyrG and pyrBI Promoters”
October 26, 2017: Catherine Sutherland will give a seminar (12:05 pm, 107 Wartik Laboratory) “Rifampicin Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Investigating Fitness Cost and Subsequent Compensation”
October 16, 2017: Our study, the crystal structure of reiterative transcription complex, is featured on CHESS website.
June 26/2017: A paper reporting the crystal structure of reiterative transcription complex is published in PNAS. Congratulations Yeonoh and Vadim! More…
June 25-30/2017: Vadim, Zuhaib, Anoop, Catherine, Yeonoh and Katsu attended and presented their works at the FASEB summer research conference “Mechanism and Regulation of Prokaryotic Transcription” at Saxtons River, Vermont. More…