Prof. Achimovich joined the Chemistry faculty in the 2022-2023 academic year as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She is returning for a second year to teach Biochemistry I lecture and lab in the Fall semester, and general Chemistry lecture and lab in the Spring semester.
In July 2023, Prof. Achimovich’s first-author paper entitled “Dimerization of iLID optogenetic proteins observed using 3D single-molecule tracking in live E. coli” was accepted and published in the Biophysical Journal.
The article is a product of the work she performed during graduate school at the University of Virginia in Andreas Gahlmann’s lab. In this manuscript, she characterized and quantified the binding dynamics of light-sensing proteins using high-resolution microscopy (all inside live bacteria!).
Prof. Achimovich was a co-author for Gettysburg College Biology Prof. Steve James’s recent publication (Sept 2022) “A reciprocal translocation involving Aspergillus nidulans snxAHrb1/Gbp2 and gyfA uncovers a new regulator of the G2-M transition and reveals a role in transcriptional repression for the setBSet2 histone H3-lysine-36 methyltransferase” for work she performed in Molecular Genetics class alongside other Gettysburg alumni.
Volunteer/Outreach
Prof. Achimovich continued to serve as an Associate Editor and Reviewer for the Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI). JEI is an non-profit, open-access journal that publishes the work of middle school and high school students around the globe, with the ultimate goal of encouraging experiential learning, critical thinking and communication of scientific results. She has served as an editor and reviewer on over 20 manuscripts in the past year, and looks forward to each new manuscript to come!
Over the summer, Prof. Achimovich was able to keep busy by making lots of pottery, and snuggling with her cats, Darwin and Vi.
