Greg Petsko, Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Brandeis professor and postdoc alumni win Searle Scholars grants
April 21, 2010 By
One Brandeis professor and two of our former postdocs are among the 15 recipients of the competitive Searle Scholars awards for 2010. Nelson Lau, an assistant professor in the Biology Dept., won for his work on “Germline Genome Regulation by Piwi Proteins and Small RNAs”. Katie Henzler-Wildman is a former postdoc from the Kern lab in Biochemistry who now has a lab at Washington Univ. in St. Louis. Katie received a grant to study “The Role of Protein Dynamics in Multidrug Resistance Transport Activity”. David Biron, an alumnus of the Sengupta Lab who is now an assistant professor at U. Chicago, received a grant to study “Understanding Lethargus: The Sleep-Like Behavior of the Nematode C. Elegans“.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Biochemistry Senior Research Talks
April 20, 2010 By
It’s also the season for Senior Honors / Masters Thesis talks…
DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Annual Senior Research Talks
2009/2010 Biochemistry Honors and BS/MS Candidates
Friday, April 23, 11:30-1:30pm – G-zang 122
Clarence Friedman – BS/MS
Characterization of 1-d-deoxyxylulose reductoisomerase
Advisor: Dan Oprian
Stefan Isaac – BS/MS
Functional Characterization and in silico Modeling of HlyU
Advisors: Dagmar Ringe/Greg Petsko
Seth Lieblich BS/MS
Bacterial Gene Repressors
Advisor: Dagmar Ringe
Miranda Patton BS/MS
Mutation of the Active Site of IMP Dehydrogenase, to Find a Novel Mutant and Create a Hybrid GMP Reductase
Advisor: Liz Hedstrom
Nat Lazar BS
We are superfamily: bioinformatic and biochemical analyses of protein evolution
Advisor: Douglas Theobald
Kanchana Ravichandran BS
Formation of heterotetramers between the human isozymes of Inosine 5’-Monophosphate Dehydrogenase
Advisor: Liz Hedstrom
Seth Robey BS
Streamlining C1C-0 Purification and Examining the pH Dependence of an Amino Acid Transporter
Advisor: Chris Miller
Kenta Yamamoto BS
The Type-1 Insulin-Like Growth Factor in Cancer and Hematopoiesis
Advisor: Ruibao Ren
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come. Pizza will be provided.
PhD Defense Season
April 13, 2010 By
It’s the season for PhD defenses…
- Apr 20: Megan Zahniser (Biochemistry), On the structure of Benzaldehyde Dehydrogenase, a Class 3 Aldehyde Dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas putida – 2pm, Rosenstiel Penthouse
- Apr 21: Chris Hoefler (Biochemistry/Bioorganic Chemistry). Inhibitors of IMPDH: Tools for Probing Mechanism and Function – 3:40 pm, Gerstenzang 122
- Apr 22: Tepring Piquado (Neuroscience), Language and the aging brain – Thu 4/22/2010, 2 pm, Volen 201
- Apr 23: Suvi Jain (Molecular and Cell Biology), Regulation of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair by the Recombination Execution Checkpoint in Saccharomyces cerevisiae – 3:30 pm, Rosenstiel 118
- Apr 29: Ben Cuiffo (Molecular and Cell Biology), Targeting RAS palmitoylation in hematological malignancies – 2 pm, Abelson 131
