Rate My Professor Kyle Friend

Friend has received significant funding, including as Principal Investigator on the Jeffress Memorial Trust award from 2017 to 2019, Associated Colleges of the South grants in 2020-2021, and as co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation Research at Undergraduate Institutions grant from 2018 to 2023 and an Associated Colleges of the South grant in 2019. He held an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2010 to 2013. Key publications encompass 'Geneticin reduces mRNA stability' (PLoS One, 2022), 'Protein composition and associated material properties of cobweb spiders’ gumfoot glue droplets' (Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2021), 'mTORC1 enhances early phase ribosome processivity' (Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020), 'Orb weaver aggregate glue protein composition as a mechanism for rapid evolution of material properties' (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023), 'Embryonic stem cell growth factors regulate eIF2α phosphorylation' (PLoS One, 2015), 'A conserved PUF–Ago–eEF1A complex attenuates translation elongation' (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2012), and 'U2 snRNP binds intronless histone pre-mRNAs to facilitate U7-snRNP-dependent 3' end formation' (Molecular Cell, 2007). Friend has delivered public lectures, including Nobel Prize Symposium talks on Physiology or Medicine in 2023 and 2025. He maintains professional affiliations with the American Chemical Society and the RNA Society.