Greg Petsko, Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.
New undergraduate specialization in Chemical Biology
The Brandeis Department of Chemistry now offers a B.A. or B.S. degree with specialization in Chemical Biology. The requirements for the degree are described in the university bulletin. — look in the section Requirements for the Major, towards the bottom.
More information: What Is Chemical Biology?
New in Pubmed
Have no time to write News and Views, but there are a few new papers from our labs that have recently popped up in Pubmed.
- Understanding the Concentration Dependence of Viral Capsid Assembly Kinetics-the Origin of the Lag Time and Identifying the Critical Nucleus Size.
Hagan MF, Elrad OM.
Biophys J. 2010 Mar 17;98(6):1065-1074. - Structural Characterization of Intact Proteins Is Enhanced by Prevalent Fragmentation Pathways Rarely Observed for Peptides.
Cobb JS, Easterling ML, Agar JN.
J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2010 Feb 11 - One-Step RT-LATE-PCR for mRNA and Viral RNA Detection and Quantification.
Hartshorn C, Wangh LJ.
Methods Mol Biol. 2010;630:153-85. - Small RNAs in the animal gonad: Guarding genomes and guiding development.
Lau NC.
Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2010 Mar 18 - Stochastic transitions between neural states in taste processing and decision-making.
Miller P, Katz DB.
J Neurosci. 2010 Feb 17;30(7):2559-70.