Congratulations to Dr. Scott Rothbart, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Brian Strahl鈥檚 lab who is one of the recipients this year of a Joseph S. Pagano award
The Pagano Award was established in 2002 to honor outstanding papers by postdoctoral fellows who are first authors of these papers. Winners are selected through a competitive process and are honored for their authorship of articles in high-impact journals.
The paper authored by Scott Rothbart, PhD, is 鈥溾�� published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Dr. Rothbart鈥檚 paper explores how a protein called UHRF1 鈥渞eads鈥� the histone code in a specific way to perform an important cellular function.
Dr. Rothbart is currently a postdoctoral fellow training in the lab of Dr. Brian Strahl, associate professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Dr. Rothbart鈥檚 research focuses on the regulation of chromatin-templated biological processes by the 鈥榟istone code鈥�. Particularly, he is interested in the biochemistry and biology of a chromatin-interacting protein, UHRF1, as a bridging molecule at the interface of histone post-translational modifications and DNA methylation.
Learn more about the other recipients here: