Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy King (Blankenship lab). He heads to Los Angeles for his postdoc in the Williams lab at the City of Hope National Medical Center.
News
February 8, 2016
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Biomedical Fellows Award
David Korasick (Strader & Jez labs) was named a 2016 Olin Fellow in recognition of his thesis work.
January 11, 2016
ASBMB Travel Award
Cynthia Holland (Jez lab) receives a travel award to attend Experimental Biology in San Diego this April.
December 28, 2015
Happy Holidays from PMB
PMB and the WU Biology Department celebrated the holidays with an annual cookie contest sponsored by the Strader lab.
December 18, 2015
USDA-NIFA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Libby Frick (Strader lab) receives a 2-year fellowship!
December 9, 2015
Prof. Petra Levin is a Fulbright Scholar
Petra leaves for Amsterdam this month to lecture and conduct research on the physiological control of bacterial cell size.
December 7, 2015
Cyanobacterial Carbon Metabolism
Sarah Rommelfanger (Umen Lab) is a co-author
Xiong W, Lee TC, Rommelfanger S, Gjersing E, Cano M, Maness PC, Ghiradi M, Yu J (2015) Phosphoketolase pathway contributes to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria. Nature Plants 2, 15187
November 25, 2015
New PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Matt Kilgore (Kutchan lab). Matt heads to the Dudareva lab at Purdue University for his postdoc.
October 22, 2015
Haswell Lab Science Paper
Eric Hamilton & Ashley Sherp are authors.
Mechanosensitive channel MSL8 regulates osmotic forces during pollen hydration and germination. Hamilton ES, Jensen GS, Maksaev G, Katims A, Sherp AM, Haswell ES (2015) Science 350, 438-4
October 15, 2015
Prof. Arpita Bose is a 2015 Packard Fellow
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation named Arpita as one of 18 Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. Each Fellow receives a grant of $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.