Dr. Kathryn Gunn was recently awarded the American Society for Cell Biology’s (ASCB) Porter prize for research excellence. This prestigious $5,000 prize is awarded to one postdoctoral fellow and one graduate student at the yearly ASCB meeting. Awardees are selected based on the novelty and creativity of their findings, and how these findings contribute to the advancement of science in the spirit of Dr. Keith Porter. Dr. Porter, one of the founders of ASCB, was a cell biologist whose pioneering research using electron microscopy advanced our understanding of subcellular structures. Dr. Gunn, a postdoctoral researcher in the Neher lab in the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, uses cryo-electron microscopy to better understand subcellular trafficking of lipoprotein lipase, a key enzyme in lipid metabolism. Gunn will present her talk, “Filamentation of Lipoprotein Lipase in Secretory Vesicles,” at the 2023 ASCB meeting in Boston, MA.
Also, congrats on her latest publication in Nature Communications about the cryoEM structure of dimeric lipoprotein lipase. Pub link