December 9, 2013: Blankenship Lab Deciphers Assembly of the Cyanobacterial Photosynthetic Megacomplex
Liu et al., Science 342, 1104-6
October 25, 2013: A Molecular Samurai Sword: Katanin
PMB Student Erica Fishel is a co-author on Zhang et al. (2013) Microtubule severing at crossover sites by katanin generates ordered cortical microtubule arrays in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol 23, 2191-5
August 29, 2013: Lab-made Complexes are “Sun Sponges”
New discoveries from the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC) are highlighted in the WUSTL Record.
August 23, 2013: Teaming Up to Engineer Crops of the Future
Profs. Himadri Pakrasi, Tae Seok Moon, and Fuzhong Zhang aim to engineering nitrogen fixation into cyanobacteria.
August 12, 2013: Ram Dixit receives the Junior Scientist Award from the Keith Porter Endowment for Cell Biology
July 20, 2013: PMB Students at the 2013 American Society of Plant Biologists Meeting
Chuanmei Zhu (Dixit Lab) was invited to speak and David Korasick (Strader/Jez Lab) received a travel award to the ASPB Meeting in Providence, RI.
May 10, 2013: Annual Varner Lecture
Olivier Hamant (Sainsbury Lab; Cambridge U) is this year’s lecturer and presents “Integrating Mechanical Signals in Cell and Developmental Biology in Arabidopsis.”
April 23, 2013: Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Biomedical Fellows Award
Soon Goo Lee (Jez lab) was named a 2013 fellow in recognition of outstanding thesis work. In addition, Corey Westall, a Biochemistry student in the Jez lab, was also named an Olin Fellow.
April 10, 2013: Spencer T. Olin Fellowship for Women in Graduate Study
Incoming PMB student Angela Schlegel receives a Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellowship for Women in Graduate Study
March 29, 2013: Tara Enders (Strader Lab) and Amelia Nguyen (Pakrasi Lab) receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Eric Hamilton (Haswell lab) and Libby Frick (Strader lab) were Honorable Mentions!
March 4, 2013: Prof. Liz Haswell receives an NSF CAREER Award
This NSF CAREER Award supports the study of the function, regulation, and molecular identity of mechanosensitive ion channels in Arabidopsis.
February 26, 2013: Making Cytochrome c in Humans
PMB student Brian San Francisco is lead author on a PNAS paper – San Francisco et al. (2013) Human mitochondrial holocytochrome c synthase’s heme binding, maturation determinants, and complex formation with cytochrome c. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110, E788-97
January 1, 2013: The New Plant & Microbial Biosciences Program Begins
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