A paper authored by UO Chemistry and Biochemistry grad student Matthew Bailey and faculty Kenneth Prehoda was published in the October issue of Developmental Cell.  Titled “Establishment of Par-Polarized Cortical Domains via Phosphoregulated Membrane Motifs,” the paper highlights how an enzyme that is mutated in many human cancers functions to organize molecules in healthy tissues.

Matthew is the 2015 recipient of the Peter Von Hippel Graduate Scholar Award.  The award seeks to recognize a senior PhD graduate student both for their outstanding performance in thesis research, and for their concern for fellow students and colleagues during their time at the University of Oregon.

Professor Prehoda is a biochemist and the current director of the Institute of Molecular Biology.

Read their paper at http://bit.ly/1PjXYoe