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Kerri Beth Boggs

Kerri Beth  Boggs
Kerri Beth Boggs earned bachelor's degrees in biology and chemistry from Milligan College in East Tennessee, and she is now a biochemistry Ph.D. student at the University of Kentucky, where she investigates the replication and transmission of respiratory viruses. Her favorite part of graduate school is the close-knit community she has built with her mentor and lab mates. Along with her research, Kerri Beth enjoys teaching science classes and coordinating outreach events for local schools and organizations. She spends her free time hiking, reading and baking desserts for friends and family. After completing her Ph.D., she plans to become a professor at a small liberal arts college.

Articles by Kerri Beth Boggs

Understanding the impact of Type 1 diabetes susceptibility genes
Research Spotlight

Understanding the impact of Type 1 diabetes susceptibility genes

Sept. 17, 2020
Starting in eighth grade, a series of mentors who saw something special in Sharifa Love–Rutledge helped her stay on the path to being a researcher — and becoming a mentor to others.
Jura is inspired by her grandmother, a ‘true pioneer’
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Jura is inspired by her grandmother, a ‘true pioneer’

May 21, 2020
This ASBMB award winner is an associate professor at UCSF who aims to understand how cells communicate with each other and the environment.
Selbach seeks the science behind the magic
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Selbach seeks the science behind the magic

March 4, 2020
Matthias Selbach, a professor at the Max Delbrück Center for ͵͵ Medicine in Berlin, uses proteomics to analyze protein synthesis and decay as well as protein–protein interactions.
Understanding how arsenic changes chromatin and causes cancer
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Understanding how arsenic changes chromatin and causes cancer

Jan. 23, 2020
Yvonne Fondufe–Mittendorf, who took a winding path from the Republic of Cameroon to the bluegrass of Kentucky, calls herself “an academic tourist.”
Fierke works as a catalyst for change
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Fierke works as a catalyst for change

Nov. 1, 2019
She won the ASBMB's 2020/2021 Mildred Cohn Award in Biological Chemistry.
Searching for drugs on the ocean floor
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Searching for drugs on the ocean floor

Oct. 1, 2019
Paul Jensen of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego searches the ocean floor with his team for marine microbes that can be developed into medical treatments.
Student chapter president’s hard work pays off
Student Chapters

Student chapter president’s hard work pays off

Aug. 1, 2019
After the ASBMB Student Chapter at the University of Texas at Dallas won a grant to host a regional conference, Anna Fiedler and her fellow chapter members faced the challenge of planning the event.
From the journals: August 2019
Journal News

From the journals: August 2019

Aug. 1, 2019
Curbing the neurotoxic effects of beta-amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s. Using proteomics to find targets to treat leishmaniasis, a sometimes-deadly parasitic disease. Turning white fat cells brite to treat obesity. Read about this work and more.
What I wish people understood about science at a small college
What I Wish People Understood

What I wish people understood about science at a small college

June 1, 2019
Now a grad student in biochemistry at the University of Kentucky, Kerri Beth Slaughter explains how a quiet student can come out of her shell with the help of creative professors and Play-Doh.
From the journals: May 2019
Journal News

From the journals: May 2019

May 1, 2019
Volatile organic compounds released by herbivore-infested plants. Protein phosphorylation in sperm development. Sphingosine in mitochondrial dysfunction after traumatic brain injury. Read about these and other papers in ASBMB journals.
Gronenborn honored for advances in NMR spectroscopy
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Gronenborn honored for advances in NMR spectroscopy

April 1, 2019
Angela Gronenborn combines nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with biophysics, biochemistry and chemistry in her investigation of cellular processes at the molecular and cellular level to understand human disease.
Soldati–Favre honored for research on Toxoplasma gondii
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Soldati–Favre honored for research on Toxoplasma gondii

April 1, 2019
Dominique Soldati-Favre studies intracellular parasites that cause diseases such as malaria, toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidiosis and coccidiosis to understand how they bypass biological barriers during invasion. In Toxoplasma, her group investigates th…
Using crystallography to answer questions of structure and function
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Using crystallography to answer questions of structure and function

March 1, 2019
A JBC/Tabor award winner Caroline Soliman works in Paul Ramsland's lab at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia.
From the journals: February 2019
Journal News

From the journals: February 2019

Feb. 1, 2019
How do plants survive in fluctuating temperatures? Why do some of infection-fighting molecules block viruses from entering cells, while others interfere with viral replication? How does a bacterium’s spore coating help it resist antibiotics? 
Chapter president inspired by mother’s diagnosis
Student Chapters

Chapter president inspired by mother’s diagnosis

Dec. 1, 2018
When she learned that her mother had colon cancer, Amanda Duplan, now a senior at Grand View University in Iowa, decided to get involved in research so she could study the underlying causes of disease.
From the journals: November 2018
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From the journals: November 2018

Nov. 1, 2018
Using mass spectrometry to learn how a flexible fish evolved. Finding the anti-addictive enzyme in an African shrub. Tracing how cholesterol contributes to macular degeneration. Read about this research and more in our roundup of recent papers fro…
Chapter president works to build community
Student Chapters

Chapter president works to build community

Sept. 1, 2018
Kelly Budge founded an ASBMB chapter for undergraduates to connect biology and chemistry students across the Goucher College campus.