Welcome to our sabbatical scientist

ALS-ENABLE warmly welcomes Dr. Miriam Gochin who is on sabbatical at Berkeley Lab for 6 months. Dr. Gochin is a professor in the College of Medicine at Touro University. Her research includes the development of assays for the detection, evaluation and development of fusion inhibitors against the HIV-1 envelope protein gp41, which is responsible for viral fusion. She currently uses NMR studies for structural elucidation of bound low molecular weight gp41 inhibitors, and is now expanding her work into protein crystallography at Berkeley Lab with the aim of obtaining the molecular structure of several gp41 proteins with inhibitors bound. With help from the ALS-ENABLE team, she has already successfully grown crystals of a gp41 construct.