March 2010
Update: Amit's Chem. Commun. manuscript has been selected by the journal as a "Hot Article".

February 2010
Amit's manuscript on DNA-catalyzed serine side chain reactivity and selectivity has been accepted at Chem. Commun. Congratulations to Amit!

February 2010
Scott has been named the 2010-2011 LAS Professorial Scholar by the U of I College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

January 2010
Congratulations to Mary, whose guanine riboswitch folding manuscript (with first author Michael Brenner and third author Michelle Nahas, both from Taekjip Ha's lab) is now in press at Biochemistry.

January 2010
Congratulations to former Silverman Lab undergraduate Kimberly [Peterson] Kaufman, who has earned her Ph.D. (chemistry) with Sam Gellman at Wisconsin! Kim will be a postdoc in the lab of Aseem Ansari at Wisconsin. Also, belated congratulations to former undergraduate Brian Smith, who earned his Ph.D. (chemistry) with John Denu also at Wisconsin last August and is now a postdoc at UC Berkeley with Michael Marletta. Kim and Brian are the first two Silverman Lab undergraduates to obtain their Ph.D. degrees!

January 2010
Welcome Emily, Nora, and Sarah to the lab!

January 2010
Listen to Scott's nine-minute podcast from August on the Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News website. The topic is DNA-catalyzed DNA hydrolysis, as reported in the lab's recent Nat. Chem. Biol. manuscript by Madhav and Amit.

January 2010
Welcome to the new Silverman Lab webpage!