Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Gunn, a postdoctoral fellow in Saskia Neher’s lab, on receiving a K99 Pathway to Independence Award from the NIGMS.
The highly prestigious K99/R00 award will provide funding for the last 1-2 years of Dr. Gunn’s postdoctoral training and 3 years of independent funding after she transitions to a tenure-track faculty position.
Dr. Gunn’s proposal, “Self-regulation of Lipases by Changes to Quaternary Structure,” will allow her to expand her current research by training in cryoelectron tomography (cryoET) with her co-mentor Dr. Peter Rosenthal at The Francis Crick Institute in London. Dr. Gunn will use cryoET to image聽in situ聽lipoprotein lipase structure. For her independent work, Dr. Gunn will use a combination of cryoEM, cryoET, and fluorescence microscopy to explore how pancreatic metabolic enzymes self-regulate by quaternary structure formation.