Perlstein, Deborah

2018 GROW (Greater Boston Research Opportunities for young Women) Poster Session

As they finished out the sixth and final week of the 2018 GROW (Greater Boston Research Opportunities for Young Women) program, the 12 summer interns present their capstone to the six weeks of research conducted during a Poster Session held on Friday, August 10th in the Science Metcalf Building Lounge located on the first floor from 2:00 – 4:00 […]

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Melissa Marquez, 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipient

Melissa Marquez, a second-year graduate student in Professor Deborah Perlstein’s group, has recently received a 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry with a minor in mathematics from Mount Saint Mary’s University and as an undergraduate conducted research in Dr. Eric Stemp’s lab focusing on DNA-protein cross-linking resulting from […]

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Melissa Marquez of the Perlstein Group award NSF-GRFP Fellowship

Melissa Marquez, a second-year graduate student in Professor Deborah Perlstein’s group, has recently received a 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry with a minor in mathematics from Mount Saint Mary’s University and as an undergraduate conducted research in Dr. Eric Stemp’s lab focusing on DNA-protein cross-linking resulting from […]

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Boston University Chemistry 2015-2016 Academic Year Grant Awards

The Chemistry Department is one of the most active research departments at Boston University. With 24 research active faculty involved in many different focus areas, we are committed to a research active learning environment where our faculty and students are afforded the opportunity to do cutting edge chemical research.  In order to continue to build on […]

Assistant Professor Deborah Perlstein awarded NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant

Dr. Perlstein, who has been with Boston University’s Chemistry Department since 2010, was recently awarded a 5-Year early investigator award through the NSF CAREER grant program.The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars […]

Professor Perlstein to present at the 2016 Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference

Associate Professor Debbie Perlstein is going to sunny Ventura, CA next week to present at the week long Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference.  Her talk, which she will give on Tuesday evening, is titled “Piecing Together Apo-Target Recognition in Cytosolic Iron Sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis.”  For more information about Dr. Perlstein and her research please visit: Perlstein Faculty Page

Deborah Perlstein joins Chemistry Faculty

Professor Deborah Perlstein, an enzymologist whose research is at the interface of biology and chemistry, has joined the Department (July 2010). As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Professor Suzanne Walker at the Harvard Medical School (2006-2010), she studied the sugar polymerases that build the bacterial cell wall. This work, which was recently featured […]