Liam's first author publication on his work on Spy1 and Cdk2 has been published in Biochemical Journal. Check out his work here - https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20260441 Congratulations, Liam!!

The Levinson lab celebrated Nidhi's new position and move to Dr. Fang Li's lab at the University of Minnesota. Congratulations, Nidhi!! We will miss you!

Promega headquarters in Madison, WI hosted students on the Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant to explore Promega technologies, tour facilities and connect with R&D teams. Students also took part in a 3MT competition and Dustin was selected as an outstanding presenter. Congratulations, Dustin!!

The Levinson lab attended the FASEB conference on Protein Phosphorylation in Health and Disease to present their work. Liam Fawcett and Kaitlin Beel were selected for "Blitz Talks" to present work on their posters in a 2 minute flash talk format. Liam presented a poster titled: The non-canonical CDK2 activator SPY1 has separable activating functions towards phosphorylated and unphosphorylated CDK2 and Kaitlin presented a poster titled: Identifying protein-phosphorylation int

Starting in Summer of 2026, Dustin is a newly awarded trainee on the Chemical Biology Interface Training Grant (CBITG) - T32. He is one of 12 trainees funded by this T32. Dustin's work will characterize drug-induced dimerization and paradoxical activation of the oncogenic BRAF mutation L597R. This project is co-mentored by Daniel Harki in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, who will mentor Dustin in chemical synthesis of BRAF inhibitor analogs to further elucidate the feat

On January 20th, 2026, Jason C. Jones presented his work, titled Probing the structural basis of c-Myc stabilization by aurora kinase A using cryo-EM , at the Targets for Cancer Training Program (TCTP) seminar series featuring T32 postdoctoral fellows. View a recording of the seminar below.