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Leah A Irish — Dr. Leah A. Irish's lab at North Dakota State University focuses on understanding the relationship between sleep patterns and binge eating behavior. The research investigates how disruptions in sleep can influence negative emotions and eating disorders, aiming to uncover daily patterns that may identify individuals at risk for binge eating. This work is crucial in developing better treatment strategies for people struggling with these issues by integrating sleep improvement into treatment plans.
Suvobrata Chakravarty — Dr. Suvobrata Chakravarty's lab focuses on understanding how weak interactions in proteins affect their structure and function. They aim to upgrade a web tool called AQcalc that helps identify these weak interactions and develop experimental methods to test their roles. By gaining insights into these interactions, the lab hopes to find new ways to manipulate proteins which could lead to better health interventions for diseases caused by protein misfolding or aggregation.
Christopher L Colbert — Dr. Christopher L Colbert's lab at North Dakota State University focuses on understanding how certain bacteria, particularly Gram-negative bacteria, manage to import essential metals like iron from their environment. By studying specific transport proteins and their regulation, the lab aims to unravel complex signaling mechanisms that could lead to new treatments for bacterial infections, especially those caused by antibiotic-resistant strains. The research combines structural biology and biochemistry techniques to analyze how these bacteria respond to their surroundings and how they can be targeted by new antibiotics.