2010-08-09
- Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Supriya Prasanth is lead and co-corresponding author of a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Human origin recognition complex is essential for HP1 binding to chromatin and heterochromatin organization." The second author is graduate student Zhen Shen.
2010-08-06 - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Lin-Feng Chen and colleagues have discovered a mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori, the only known cancer-causing bacterium, disables a tumor suppressor protein in host cells.
2010-07-26 - Of the approximately 100 cases that the Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure reviewed this year, Associate Professor of Biochemistry Emad Tajkhorshid's dossier was one of just four recognized as exceptional in terms of quality of work and overall achievement.
2010-07-01 - A team of researchers, including Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Craig Mizzen and Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Ann Nardulli, has published a study in the Journal of Cell Biology entitled "Histone H1 phosphorylation is associated with transcription by RNA polymerases I and II."
2010-06-24 - Swanlund Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Cell and Developmental Biology Benita Katzenellebogen contributed to a study led by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center that pinpointed a set of biological mechanisms through which estrogen confers its beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, independent of the hormone's actions on cancer.
2010-06-07 - Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience Rhanor Gillette and colleagues have published a paper in the Journal of Neurophysiology: "Nitric oxide potentiates cAMP-gated cation current by intracellular acidification in feeding neurons of Pleurobranchaea."
2010-05-21 - A team of researchers led by Professor of Biochemistry John A. Gerlt has received a five-year, $33.9 million grant from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences to study the functions of unknown enzymes.
2010-05-14 - Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Ann Nardulli visited Capitol Hill, along with other members of the Endocrine Society, as part of an envoy to present the 2009 Endocrine Society Congressional Leadership Award, and to advocate for increased funding for biomedical research.
2010-05-13 - In this article, Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Stephanie Ceman discusses her research on Fragile X Syndrome.
2010-05-13 - Biochemistry Student Quinn Peterson has been awarded a 2009-2010 American Chemical Society Predoctoral Fellowship. He is working on a cancer treatment, and doing clinical tests on dogs.
2010-05-13 - Yupeng Zheng, a graduate student in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Jennifer Schultz-Norton, a post-doctoral worker in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, were two of the authors in a paper published by the Journal of Cell Biology.-
2010-05-07 - The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Awards Ceremony was held Thursday, May 6, to recognize a number of our faculty, undergraduate students, and graduate students for excellence in teaching, academics, and research.
2010-04-26 - Professors of Molecular and Integrative Biology Yang (Kevin) Xiang, Charles Cox and their colleagues found a potential new drug target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.-
2010-04-09 - Alumni Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Affiliate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Martha Gillette is featured in a new online video entitled "Neurosciences: The Clock." Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Gene Robinson appears in a video entitled "Neurosciences: Bees ... and Brains."
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2010-04-09 - Grant Reed, a graduating senior in MCB, was awarded the Patricia Askew Leadership Award this year.