2012-04-02
- Corresponding author Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Claudio Grosman, Associate Professor of Biochemistry Satish Nair, and colleagues have published new work in PNAS.
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2012-03-27 - The eukaryotic molecular chaperone network is formed by the concerted actions of Hsp90, Hsp70 and their associated cochaperones. Typically, cochaperones had been considered regulatory factors that modulate the ATPase activities of Hsp90 and Hsp70 and also guide these chaperone to distinct clients. In this study, members of the Freeman laboratory investigated the physiological pathways...
2012-03-27 - Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Phillip Newmark, has been appointed as a Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar. The appointment is for a three-year term and will provide a discretionary fund of $25,000 per annum to support scholarly activities. The award is given to key leaders in Liberal Arts and Sciences for their...-
2012-03-27 - The cells comprising all solid tissues in our bodies are held together by a family of adhesion molecules known as cadherins. A network of intracellular fibers known as actin strengthens the adhesive contact, but the molecular mechanisms connecting actin filaments to cadherins are poorly understood. Tang and Brieher found that a protein known as α-actinin 4 is crucial for assembling actin at...
2012-03-20 - A new study led by Associate Professor of Biochemistry Satish Nair describes how bacteria use a previously unknown means to defeat an antibiotic.
2012-03-14 - There is novelty-seeking behavior, across different contexts, among honey bees in their tendency to scout for food sources and nest sites.
2012-02-28 - A unique signaling network regulated by the homeobox transcription factors MSX1 and MSX2 in the mouse uterus critically controls female fertility.
2012-02-21 - Not that long ago in a hot spring in Kamchatka, Russia, two groups of genetically indistinguishable microbes parted ways. They began evolving into different species – despite the fact that they still encountered one another in their acidic, boiling habitat and even exchanged some genes from time to time, researchers report.-
2012-01-31 - A fundamental breakthrough in biological science occurred in 1977, and most biologists did not notice: a paper by Professor of Microbiology Carl Woese that compared sequence snippets derived from small subunit rRNAs of different organisms.
2012-01-31 - In a new study, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Rhanor Gillette reports on a circuit in the brain of the sea slug Pleurobranchaea.-
2012-01-18 - Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology William Brieher and Vivan Tang have published "α-Actinin-4/FSGS1 is required for Arp2/3-dependent actin assembly at the adherens junction" in the Journal of Cell Biology.
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2011-12-13 - Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience Lori Raetzman has been selected to present the Anita Payne New Perspectives in Reproductive Biology Lecture at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR).
2011-11-01 - A new study led by Professor of Microbiology Stephen Blanke, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show how a bacterial toxin can disrupt a cell's mitochondria – its energy-generation and distribution system – to disable the cell and spur apoptosis (programmed cell death).
2011-10-03 - Nature Reviews Microbiology has published an editorial lauding the contributions of Crafoord Prize recipient Professor of Microbiology Carl Woese.-
2011-09-21 - Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Milan Bagchi, and Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Phillip Newmark, have each been appointed as a Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar.