Professor at the University of Missouri. My lab studies mechanisms of metal homeostasis in health and disease.

Joined September 2018
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21 Mar 2019
Check out our new paper on how ATP7A-mediated metallation of lysyl oxidases can be blocked to restrict tumor growth and metastasis. Big thanks to first author Vinit Shanbhag. pnas.org/content/early/2019/…

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11 Dec 2018
I took my 7year old to the lab on Sunday for the first time. She pipetted, she looked at cells under the microscope and played with the vortex. She writes this on the white board. I feel like Rodney Dangerfield. #Idontgetnorespect
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20 Oct 2018
Nobel laureate George Smith getting his own parking spot - for his preferred mode of transportation.
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Petris Lab retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter.
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George Smith receives Nobel prize for Chemistry for inventing phage display. Go MIZZOU!
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