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Department of Biochemistry
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175 South University St.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
765-494-1600
If you’re on Purdue’s campus in the summer, you may notice a group of students slipping out of the biochemistry labs late at night, looking exhausted yet exhilarated. These are the participants in the Summer Science Program (SSP), a...
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Shelby Sliger, a senior biochemistry major in Purdue’s College of Agriculture and a member of the John Martinson Honors College, discovered a...
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This summer, Elysia Uggen researches PICKLE mutations in the arabidopsis plant with department head of biochemistry Joe Ogas.
Sarah Stanhope likes investigating things: “I always asked a lot of questions,” she says. Inspired and supported by a...
On Friday March 22, Bob Auber returned to Room 116 in Whistler Hall to stand behind a podium in front of a PowerPoint and keep an audience engaged...
A Purdue University-led research team has begun translating the complex molecular language of petunias. Their grammar and vocabulary are well...