Upcoming Seminars

February 2, 2009
Dr. Krishna Rajarathnam
UTMB-Galveston
Title: Being in the right place at the right time - Structural Basis of Chemokines’ Role in Inflammation and Immunity
Host: Dr. Jayarman

February 9, 2009
Dr. Christy Landers
University of Houston
Title: Signal Transduction in Single Molecules: How can Biology Inform Materials Design?
Host: Dr. Jayarman

February 11, 2009
Zheng Jake Chen, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
Title: Biological Rhythms in Yeast and Mammals
Host: Dr. Kellems
Room MSB 3.301

February 16, 2009
Dr. Stephen S. Sligar
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Title: Elucidating the Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins through Nanotechnology
Host: Dr. Strobel

February 23, 2009
Dr. J. Alan Diehl
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Title: Coordinated Regulation of Cyclin D1 Subcellualr Localization and Destruction Deuring Cell Division
Host: Dr. Jin

March 2, 2009
Dr. James Bowie
UCLA
Title: Investigating the Forces that Drive Membrane Protein Folding
Host: Dr. Spudich

March 16, 2009
Dr. David R. Rowley
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Reactive Stoma in Prostate Cancer Progression
Host: Dr. Putkey

March 23, 2009
Dr. Simon Robson
Harvard University
Title: CD39 Expression by Regulatory Immune Cells: Immune Suppression Occurs via Phosphohydrolysis of Extracellular Nucleotides
Host: Dr. Xia

March 30, 2009
Dr. Mien-Chie Hung
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Signal Network of Three Oncogenic Kinases and Membrane Receptor in the Nucleus
Host: Dr. Jin

April 6, 2009
Dr. John S. Oghalai
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Membrane-Based Outer Hair Cell Electromotility in Hearing and Hearing Loss
Host: Drs. Spudich and Jayaraman

April 13, 2009
Dr. Laising Yen
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: TBA
Host: Dr. Shyu

April 20, 2009
Note: Dr. Carson's seminar has been cancelled.
Dr. Daniel D. Carson
University of Deleware
Title: TBA
Host: Dr. Putkey

April 27, 2009
Dr. Sandy Chang
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Telomere Dysfunction and the DNA Damage Response
Host: Dr. Jin

 

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FACULTY NEWS Irina I. Serysheva, Ph.D., Associate Professor, BMB, was one of 5 prominent scientists in the cryo-EM field recently interviewed by the journal “The Scientist”. CryoEM is a form of electron microscopy that produces sub-nanometer-resolution 3D structures from 2D images of flash-frozen samples of macromolecules. A paper published by Dr. Ann-Bin Shyu in EMBO Journal ("Messenger RNA regulation: to translate or to degrade") was one of the 10 most-read/downloaded papers online in September, 2008. The annual BMB Spring Retreat was held at Camp Allen on March 9 & 10. As in the past years, we gathered during the Monday and Tuesdayto discuss science, network with our peers and play. Such a high level of active participation, for four consecutive years, by program members bespeaks our commitment to excel and provide the best training environment. Congratualtions to all who participated and presented. A list of the competition winners can be found on the retreat page.

STUDENT NEWS Several BMB students have recently received awards. These include · Anu Rambhadran (Jayaraman Laboratory) and Xi Mo (Li laboratory) won second and third place respectively at the Gulf Coast Consortium for Membrane Biology Poster Session. This was a highly competitive poster session where students and postdocs were judged together. · Kari Brewer (Chun Li laboratory) received the 2008-2009 Andrew Sowell and Wade Huggins Scholarship in Cancer Research. · Mesias Pedroza (Blackburn laboratory) was awarded an inaugural Gigli Family Scholarship from the GSBS. This is a competitive fellowship that is awarded to students that exhibit exceptional promise as young biomedical researchers. · Roxanna Irani (M.D.,Ph.D. Student Xia) was awarded the 2009 Harry S. and Isabel C. Cameron Foundation Fellowship from the GSBS. · Jennifer Gonzalez (Jayaraman laboratory) received the 2008-09 City Federation of Women’s Clubs Endowed Scholarship in the Biomedical Sciences administered through the GSBS. Mesias Pedroza, a graduate student in Mike Blackburn's laboratory, has received a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship from the National Research Council. Congratulations, Mesias, on receiving this highly competitive fellowship. Daniel J. Schneider, a graduate student in Mike Blackburn's laboratory, was recently awarded a fellowship by the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences at the Health Science Center. This competitive fellowship provides a stipend, travel support, and supply money to conduct his Ph.D. project entitled "Role of osteopontin and adenosine signaling in chronic pulmonary disease."

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