Lab Guide to Reliable Binding Affinity Measurements


Our lab's guide to reliable binding affinity measurements ( “How to measure and evaluate binding affinities”) has been included in eLife's new collection of Learning resources for scientists. We published our 'Kd checklist' in 2020 to fill a void where an accessible resource was clearly needed. With over ten thousand downloads and nearly 400 citations, this paper has been used extensively in research and teaching!

How to Measure and Evaluate Binding Affinities

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11/16/24


Dan Gives Keynote Lecture at Merck-UNC Chapel Hill Research Forum

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11/6/24

 

Dan Receives Binghamton University Alumni Achievement Award

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5/1/24


Lab Alum Shu-ou Shan Receives 2024 NAS Award in Molecular Biology

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1/25/24

 

9/29/23

Dan inducted into National Academy of Arts and Sciences

 

Congratulations to lab member Albert Lee, who was awarded a Stanford Dean’s Fellowship

6/21/23


5/9/23

Lab Alum Katrin Karbstein receives University of Florida Research Foundation professorship distinction

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Lab Alum Steve Bonilla accepts faculty position at Rockefeller University!

4/27/23


Dan elected to National Academy of Arts and Sciences

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4/20/23


Summer Student Jacob Parres-Gold Awarded Ford Fellowship

3/23/23


Lab Alum Steve Bonilla Featured by RNA Society

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11/9/22


Dan gives the Stanley Dagley Lecture at the University of Minnesota

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10/12/22


Congratulations to Helen Wiersma-Koch for becoming Department Chair at Indian River State College!

8/5/22


8/24/22

Lab Member Lauren Hagler Receives Hanna H. Gray Fellowship

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8/17/22

Lab Alum Steve Bonilla Presents his Postdoctoral Research at the MIT Future Faculty in Chemistry Symposium

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Lab Alum Ivana Nikolić Hughes Appointed as President of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

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6/7/22


5/18/22

Lab Alum Raghu Sengupta Interviewed in American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Today

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Lab Alum Geeta Narlikar inducted into National Academy of Sciences

4/29/22

 
 

Lab Alum Magda Gebala takes job as Senior Scientist at Exai Bio!

4/27/22


Dan gives his talk “Toward Predictive Understanding in Biology” at San Jose State University

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4/6/22


4/4/22


Alumni Paper Highlight

From lab of Herschlag lab alum Paul Sigala, “Critical Role for Isoprenoids in Apicoplast Biogenesis by Malaria Parasites” published in eLife.

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3/30/22


12/21/21

Congratulations to Hiwot Anteneh for receiving an NIH Diversity Supplement!


From the Archives: Dan’s Talk at Tom Cech’s 60th Birthday (2008)

12/17/21

 
 

Stanford PRISM Postdoctoral Training Opportunities

Dan quoted in article on the PRISM postdoc program which was launched under his leadership when he served as Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs

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11/1/21


Another Article Highlighting HT-MEK Technology

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10/7/21


Cambrium posts about new Herschlag Fordyce publication

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8/4/21


News reports on Fordyce/Herschlag collaboration to create HT-MEK for high-throughput enzymology

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8/3/21


Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Highlights Herschlag Lab Publication

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7/31/21


Congratulations to Daniel Mokhtari for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

7/6/21


Congratulations to David White for receiving a Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award!

6/17/21


Congratulations to Lauren Hagler for being selected as a Propel Postdoctoral Scholar!

6/16/21


4/26/21

Geeta Narlikar, first student to join Herschlag lab, elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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Congratulations to Research Associate Siyuan Du for her acceptance to Stanford for graduate school!

Congratulations to Undergraduate Trainee Jacob Parres-Gold for his acceptance to CalTech for graduate school!

Congratulations to Margaux Pinney who is joining UCSF as a Sandler Faculty Fellow!


2/18/21

Lab Alumnus Steve Bonilla Receives Hanna Gray Fellowship

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1/11/21

Margaux Pinney Defends her Thesis

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1/26/21

Lab Alumna Katrin Karbstein Profiled by RNA Society

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Dan Publishes article on Stanford Grant Writing Academy

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1/7/21


Science with Tom video about the Herschlag-Fordyce Collaboration

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8/22/20


7/9/20

Catherine Stark elected to BioAIMS 2020-2021 Executive Board as Advocacy Co-Chair!


Dan receives 2020 Founders Award at Biophysical Society Meeting

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2/18/20


SUNY Binghamton’s Alumni Association Profiles Dan

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2/13/20


Dan speaks at Brandeis Alumni event featuring Nobel Laureate Michael Rosbash at Palo Alto JCC

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2/9/20


Daniel Mokhtari named 2019 Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow

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10/25/19


Dan receives Biophysical Society’s 2020 Founders Award!

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9/6/19


2019 Awesome Science Symposium

Margaux Pinney co-organizes event and Dan gives a talk.

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9/6/19


7/30/19

Lab alumnus Raghu Sengupta achieves Blue Belt in Jiu Jitsu!

 
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Margaux Pinney receives Outstanding Poster Award and elected as a chair for the Enzymes, Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways Gordon Research Seminar that will be held July 2021!

7/29/19


Herschlag-Fordyce Collaboration reveals enzyme properties in unprecedented detail

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6/28/19


Dan receives Stanford Biosciences “Excellence in Mentoring and Service Award”!

6/12/19


Daniel Mokhtari is awarded a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship!

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5/15/19


Margaux Pinney is awarded a Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship!

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5/10/19


Dan is inducted into the National Academy of Sciences!

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4/27/19


Lab Alumnus Geeta Narlikar Celebrates 15 Years of Her UCSF Lab!

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4/26/19


Rare document circa 1988 unearthed!

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3/18/19


“Bringing Biochemistry into the Genomic Era”

Dan gives the Moses Gomberg Lecture at the University of Michigan.
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12/10/18


NIH R01 “Fundamental Studies of RNA Conformational Thermodynamics” got a 5th percentile score!

11/2/18


Inga Jarmoskaite won a poster prize at the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation!

7/20/18


5/1/18


John Eugenis and Quan Lam Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Former Herschlag lab undergraduate trainees John Eugenis (Summer 2015) and Quan Lam (Summer 2015) receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Eugenis was awarded for his proposal "Engineering Turnable, Biomimetic Hydrogels to Expand Functional Neural Stem Cells" and Lam was awarded for her proposal "Functions of RNA Binding Protein Regulation Under Cellular Stress."
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4/2/18


"Lunch and Learn: Tools for Success"

Dan gives a talk hosted by Stanford Biosciences.

2/22/18


1/29/18

"Biochemistry in the Genomic Era"

Dan gives a talk hosted by University of California Berkeley's Structure and Quantitative Biology Seminar Committee.


12/1/17

"Adventures in the RNA World: Past, Present, and Future"

Dan gives a talk hosted by the Louisiana State University New Orleans School of Medicine.


10/21/17 

"The Structure, Dynamics and Energetics of Hydrogen Bonds Inside Proteins"

Dan gives a talk at the 28th Faltertage on Protein Folding, Dynamics and Stability in Halle, Germany.
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"Tools for Success - Goal Setting and Time Management"

Dan gives a talk sponsored by the Stanford Biosciences Wellness Matters Program.
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5/24/17


4/27/17

"What We Don't Know About Enzymes, and How We're Going to Find Out"

Dan gives a talk hosted by Dartmouth College's Department of Chemistry.
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"Adventures in the RNA World: Past, Present and Future"

Dan gives a talk hosted by University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

4/12/17


"Adventures in the RNA World: Past, Present and Future"

Dan gives a talk hosted by Harvard Medical School's Department of Cell Biology.

2/23/17


"Adventures on the RNA Folding Landscape: Biological Insights from Biophysics"

Dan gives a talk hosted by the University of Zurich's Life Science Seminar Series.

12/6/16


"Tools for Success for Graduate Students"

Dan gives a talk hosted by Stanford Biosciences.
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11/17/16


Xuesong Shi's Paper "The Solution Structural Ensembles of RNA Kink-turn Motifs and Their Protein Complexes" featured by Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

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10/31/16


"Lessons From Catalysis by RNA Enzymes"

Dan gives a talk at 24th Solvay Conference on Chemistry: "Catalysis in Chemistry and Biology."

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10/21/16


"Adventures on the RNA Folding Landscape: Biological Insights from Biophysics"

Dan gives keynote speech at the 29th Annual Mary and Randolph T. Wedding Research Symposium at University of California Riverside.

9/12/16


8/16/16

Fighting Malaria with Light

Herschlag Lab alumnus Paul Sigala ('09) interviewed by The Scope for University of Utah Health Sciences Radio.

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Ariana Peck's Paper "Tungstate as a Transition State Analog for Catalysis by Alkaline Phosphatase" Recommended in Faculty of 1000

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7/3/16


2/16/16

Xuesong Shi's Research Featured in Nature Chemical Biology News and Views

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"Tools You Can Use: Goal Setting and Time Management"

Dan gives a talk hosted by Stanford Biosciences.
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1/26/16


Bob Chen's Article "High-throughput Analysis and Protein Engineering Using Microcapillary Arrays" Recommended in Faculty of 1000

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1/7/16


Bob Chen's Research Featured in Nature Chemical Biology News and Views

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12/7/15


Lab Research Featured in Stanford News

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12/7/15


"RNA Biology: Past, Present, and Future"

Dan gives keynote speech at North Carolina Symposium on RNA Biology XI's RNA Genome Wide Session.

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10/16/15


"Goal-Setting and Time Management"

Dan gives a talk hosted by Stanford Biosciences.
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10/28/13


5/16/13

Dan Herschlag Participates in Stanford Faculty Senate Discussion of Future of Ph.D. Degree

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"Goal Setting and Time Management"

Dan gives a talk hosted by Stanford Graduate Programs and Diversity Office.
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2/6/13


Dan Herschlag Named 2010 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology William C. Rose Award Recipient

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