Nam Ho, Frank Lab graduate research assistant, has officially completed his Ph.D. with the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. He is the lab’s first Columbia Ph.D. student to complete his dissertation work. He is now an adjunct professor of Biochemistry at Columbia University.
Nam’s dissertation deals with the interaction of a translational GTPase, BipA, with the S. enterica ribosome — work that was done in collaboration with the lab of Victoria Robinson in Storr, CT. He also collaborated with Robert Langlois on the development of fully automated particle picking.