January 6, 2012: Soon’s paper on the structure and mechanism of the malaria parasite’s phosphoethanolamine methyltransferase was selected as a JBC Paper of the Week with an accompanying author profile and JBC Podcast. This work was also featured in the Washington University Record, on the Voice of America, the DOE Basic Energy Sciences News website, the […]
December 11-15, 2011: Joe is a speaker at the 50th Phytochemical Society of North America Meeting in Kona, Hawaii.
November 2011: Joe becomes Section Chief Editor of Frontiers in Plant Metabolism and Chemodiversity.
October 27, 2011: Saraceno – A Sustainable Future at the Kemper Art Museum. Joe was part of an interdisciplinary panel that discussed some of the concepts posed by Tomás Saraceno’s art, such as the legacy of the utopian impulse in contemporary art and architecture and the scientific, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions of sustainability.
October 22, 2011: Sheri, Tara, and Jonathan present posters at the Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Tara receives an HHMI Travel Award to support her attendance at Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego.
October 2011: Joe joins the ASPB-SURF Program Committee.
October 20, 2011: Joe chairs and presents in the Plant Biotechnology session at the Midwest/Great Lakes American Chemical Society meeting.
September 24-27, 2011: 27th New Phytologist Symposium at Biosphere II in Tuscon.
July 21, 2011: Loren receives one of the four 2011 Ronald McDonald House Charities/HACER Scholarships.
July 17-21, 2011: Joe is a speaker at the 4th International Conference on Enzymes in the Environment: Activity, Ecology, and Applications, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
June 2011: Congratulations to Corey for receiving a USDA-NIFA Predoctoral Research Fellowship.
May 23, 2011: Ashley successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. She will be heading to Florida for a postdoc at the USDA Citrus Research Center.
May 13, 2011: Soon receives a travel award to attend the 2011 Korea-US Science Cooperation Conference in Park City, Utah (Aug 10-14).
April 10-13, 2011: ASBMB Experimental Biology 2011 Meeting in Washington, DC – Geoff presents a talk in the “Kinases, Phosphatases, and Phosphorus in Biological Reactions” session; Soon receives a travel grant; and Joe is an invited speaker in the “Sulfur Chemistry and Biological Redox” session.
April 7, 2011: Tara receives an HHMI-SURF Award.
March 17, 2011: Jonathan is awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship by the ASPB.
March 8, 2011: Joe presents in the Food Safety and Biotechnology Workshop at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
March 2011: Joe promoted to Associate Professor.
February 2011: Joe is a finalist in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute – Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Competition in the Plant Sciences.
February 2011: Ashley receives a 2010 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Biomedical Fellow Award.