Lab Highlights

Dear Barbar Lab Alumni and Friends,

As we say goodbye to 2019 and on the dawn of a new decade, I am happy to report that the status of the lab is strong. We are an active, engaging, and fun lab on all teaching, research and outreach fronts. I am very grateful for the undergraduate and graduate students, who contributed to a very eventful 2019. I am also grateful for the many undergrads, grads, postdocs and technicians who I worked with over the past two decades, and who helped establish and elevate the lab’s reputation to the level that we now enjoy. I would hope to use this newsletter to stay in touch, and to hear from as many alumni and friends who would like to stay in touch.

Best wishes for 2020 and for a new decade of working together, taking risks, and persisting in doing what we believe is worthwhile and that positively impact the world we live in.

Happy New Year!

Elisar Barbar

“Barbar brings deep research experience, a passion for student success and a conviction that science is not confined by international borders.”

Invited seminars:

Protein disorder and versatility in dynein regulation, transcription activation and viral replication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, April 2019.
Protein disorder in regulation and assembly of large molecular machines, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon, July 11th, 2019.
Protein disorder in the rabies virus, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, July 23rd, 2019.

Invited talks at two national meetings:

Albany 2019: The 20th Conversation, June 11-15, 2019, at the State University of New York at Albany.
Chemical Biology and Physiology Conference, Dec 12-15, 2019, at Oregon Health & Science University

Heather presented a poster

• All Barbar lab graduate students volunteered for OSU’s “Discovering the Scientist Within”
• Heather was interviewed about her research on Inspiration Dissemination
• http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/2019/09/28/proteins-run-the-sh…
• Heather continued as a host of Inspiration Dissemination
• Heather acted as a coordinator of “GRADx 2019” and “GRAD Inspire 2020” at OSU
• Article written about our Nathan Jespersen’s work in France:
• http://impact.oregonstate.edu/2018/09/an-unusual-feat-biochemistry-grad…
• “‘At OSU, science is not confined by international borders,’ ...this year’s recipient of the MacVicar Scholar Award, reflects these ideals precisely.”