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2012-10-14 - In a new finding published in Nature Chemical Biology, Research Scientist Gisela Cymes and Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Biophysics, and Neuroscience Claudio Grosman applied single-molecule electrophysiology to elucidate the properties of the ring of acidic side chains that catalyzes the flow of cations through the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channel.

2012-10-04 - An in-depth understanding of any machine requires classification of the individual parts, knowledge on how the components connect, and recognition of the mechanisms propelling the assembled pieces into a running unit. As biologist we have made admirable progress in naming the numerous physical factors constituting cells as well as rendering annotated maps on how these subunits arrange into...

2012-10-03 - Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Alexander von Humboldt Scholar Brian Freeman and colleagues have published "The p23 Molecular Chaperone and GCN5 Acetylase Jointly Modulate Protein-DNA Dynamics and Open Chromatin Status" in Molecular Cell.

2012-09-21 - A team including corresponding author Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Jongsook Kim Kemper has identified a key molecular player in a chain of events in the body that can lead to fatty liver disease, Type II diabetes and other metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity. By blocking this molecule, the researchers were able to reverse some of the pathology it caused...

2012-09-21 - The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Michelle Wegscheid, a senior in the Specialized Curriculum in Biochemistry, as a 2012 award recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

2012-09-11 - Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Phillip Newmark is among seven university faculty named a University Scholar.

2012-09-02 - Although cellular metabolic (redox) state has long been associated with a housekeeping role, recent research from a team lead by Martha Gillette, and including the Lee Cox and Jonathan Sweedler groups, provides new insights on cellular redox states, linking them to the intrinsic daily (circadian) clock in the brain. In the August 17th issue of Science, T. A. Wang et al. show that redox states in...

2012-08-31 - Professor of Microbiology William Metcalf is lead author on a new study of ocean methane in Science. Up to 4 percent of the methane on Earth comes from the ocean’s oxygen-rich waters, but scientists have been unable to identify the source of this potent greenhouse gas. Now researchers report that they have found the culprit: a bit of “weird chemistry” practiced by the most abundant microbes on...

2012-08-30 - Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Biochemistry Mary Schuler and colleagues have published a new study in Science.

2012-08-07 - Associate Professor of Biochemistry Raven Huang and colleagues have published "Molecular basis of bacterial protein Hen1 activating the ligase activity of bacterial protein Pnkp for RNA repair" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

2012-08-03 - Tongfei Wang, Gubbi Govindaiah, Liana Artinian, and Charles Cox of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology are co-authors of a new paper in Sciencexpress. Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology Martha Gillette is corresponding author.

2012-07-25 - Labib Rouhana, a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Phil Newmark, has been awarded the prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

2012-06-25 - Cong Wu, a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry, is the first author on "A protease for 'middle-down' proteomics" in Nature Methods.

2012-06-19 - Professor of Biochemistry James H. Morrissey has been appointed as the Roy and Eva Hong Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

2012-06-17 - Rachel Roberts-Galbraith, postdoc in Cell and Developmental Biology, is co-chair of "Cell Biology of Regeneration," the winning topic in the competition to organize the 2012 American Society for Cell Biology Graduate Student/Postdoc-Initiated Minisymposium.