University of Idaho

Research Team

Patrick J. Hrdlicka
Associate Professor

Update (2017) - This website has only seen minimal updates in the past 18 months as the majority of my time has been devoted to Faculty Senate, a shared governance body at the University of Idaho that I now am Chair of, and many other administrative duties such as co-chairing the Faculty Compensation Task Force. In my "spare time", I teach nucleic acid chemistry and medicinal chemistry, and conduct research. Our group currently encompasses three graduate students. We just published a paper in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry from the Invader project. Oh, and before I forget: I secured promotion to full professor. Thank you to all research students who made that possible. More updates to follow.

Administration (2016) - Dr. Hrdlicka has been elected Vice-Chair of the Faculty Senate.

Teaching (2016) - Dr. Hrdlicka teaches CHEM571 - Introduction to Nucleic Acid Chemistry this fall semester.

Presentations (2016) - Dr. Hrdlicka delivered invited presentations at the Nucleic Acid Center (University of Southern Denmark) and the 2016 Idaho INBRE Research Conference, where visiting undergraduate researcher Macie-Grace Guthrie also presented a poster.

Lab upgrade (2016)- Our biolab is now BSL-2 certified.

Presentation (2016) - Dr. Hrdlicka presented the group's research to the Chemistry Department at the University of Colorado in Denver.

Publication (2016)- Brooke's manuscript entitled "Merging two strategies for mixed-sequence recognition of double-stranded DNA: Pseudocomplementary Invader probes" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry.

Publication (2016)- Mamta's manuscript on "Discrimination of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using oligonucleotides modified with C5-pyrene-functionalized DNA and flanking Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA) monomers" has been accepted for publication in Chemistry - An Asian Journal.

Graduation (2016) - Eric Hall has graduated with a non-thesis MS degree. All the best for the future!

Internal grant (2016) - Dr. Hrdlicka secured funds to purchase a new DNA synthesizer.

Collaborations (2016) - Two collaborative studies, spearheaded by Prof. Stulz (Univ. Southampton) and Prof. Smith (Karolinska University), have been published in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry and Nucleic Acids Research, respectively.

Graduation - Dale C. Guenther has successfully defended her Ph.D.-dissertation and joins Alnylam Pharmaceuticals as a postdoctoral researcher. Congrats on all accounts !!!

Alumni success - Former Ph.D.-student Saswata Karmakar has joined RaNA Therapeutics as a Scientist.

New Ph.D.-student - We welcome Raymond Emehizer to the group !!

Internal grant (2015) - Dr. Hrdlicka has secured a $10,000 grant from the Idaho INBRE program.

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