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MCB People in the News
December 14, 2007
Postdoctoral Poster Session Award Winners
Congratulations to Shivendra Kishore in the Stamm lab (Second Place) and Jozsef
Gal in the Zhu lab (Honorable Mention) in the College of Medicine Postdoc Poster
session.
Dear
Postdoctoral Scientists,
We would like
to thank every postdoctoral scientist who took the time to develop posters and
provide presentations of their research at the First Annual Postdoctoral
Poster Session on Wednesday, December 12, 2007. This was a very lively event
where postdoctoral scientists and faculty judges learned a great deal from
each other and where high level science was the topic of every discussion. We
are very pleased with your reports that this event was both very useful and
enjoyable! We hope the Postdoctoral Poster Session will become a true
highlight of the Postdoctoral Development Series.
We have two
clear award winners and one tie:
First Place:
Dr. Judit Z. Baffi, Ophthalmology, Ambati lab Dr. Baffi will receive $1,000 in travel support to the conference of her
choice in the next 12 months.
Second Place:
Dr. Shivendra Kishore, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Stamm lab Dr. Kishore will receive $500 in travel/research support in the next 12
months.
Second Place
(tie): Dr. Guofang Qiu, Radiation Medicine, Rangnekar lab and Dr. Yanming
Zhao, Radiation Medicine, Rangnekar lab
We will break
the tie for the additional Second Place Award by a drawing to determine the
winner at the January Postdoctoral Development Seminar. This seminar will be
on January 12, 2008 at 4 pm in CTW 127 (Wethington Commons Room).
Honorable
Mention:
Dr. Xabier
Arzuaga, Nutritional Science/Toxicology, Hennig lab Dr. Jozsef Gal, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Zhu lab Dr. Erin Hascup, Anatomy and Neurobiology, Gerhardt lab Dr. Hanad Duale, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center/Physiology,
Rabchevsky lab
Judging forms
will be also be available for pick up by each postdoc at the January
Postdoctoral Development Seminar.
We hope you
will join us on Wednesday, January 16, 2007, at 4 pm in CTW 127 to
congratulate the Postdoc Poster award winners. The topic of the seminar will
be obtaining extramural funding.
Happy
Holidays!
Anthony Sinai
PhD Chair Postdoc Advisory Committee
Dec. 12, 2007
The Faces of Research:
Jamie Cantrell
Dear Biochemistry Colleagues,
I am just writing to call your
attention to an article in the latest Dean’s newsletter that features the
interesting research project that Jamie Cantrell, one of our graduate students,
is doing in Dr. Sabire Ozcan’s laboratory. Also of note is that this nice
article was written by Rachel Ahmed in Dr. Paul Murphy’s lab!
Kevin
LINK TO ARTICLE
Dec. 2, 2007
JBC Paper of the Week
The Sarge Lab's paper titled "HSF1-Tpr
interaction facilitates export of stress-induced hsp70 mRNA" has been chosen
as Paper of the
Week in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Nov. 12, 2007
Gill Heart
Institute Cardiovascular Research Day Award
It is my great
pleasure to inform you that Nathan Correll in the Andres Laboratory was
awarded second place for the best student presentation at the Gill Heart
Institute Cardiovascular Research Day, which was held on October 19, 2007.
Please join me in congratulating Nathan for this very nice honor.
-Kevin Sarge
Oct. 16, 2007
Welcome Fall 2007 Rotation Students
May 31, 2007
Predoctoral Fellowships
Megan
Sampley, Steve
Smith and Nathan Vanderford have been awarded predoctoral fellowships from the
American Heart Association.
May 31, 2007
Zhu
Lab Paper Recognized
A recent paper on studies from Haining Zhu's laboratory
into Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, was
recognized on the main UK web site (link is below).
http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?artid=2335
March 21, 2007
Dr. Becky Dutch Nominated for the
Sarah Bennett Holmes Award
"Recognizing Remarkable Women at
the University of Kentucky" -
Dr. Rebecca E. Dutch serves the University of Kentucky as Associate Professor
in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. In a discipline dominated by men, Dr. Dutch leads a lab of nine women, inspiring
her seven female students and one female research assistant to develop the
knowledge, experience, skill and confidence required for making independent
research decisions and backing up those decisions when questioned. Dr.
Dutch encourages critical thinking as she guides research projects, scientific
writing, and instructs her students in effective public speaking, all
essential skills required for professional success, obtaining independent
funding, fellowships, and presenting research at meetings and professional
conferences...
Article Continued Here
March 6, 2007
Biochemistry Student
Wins Presidential Fellowship
Dear Biochemistry
Colleagues,
It
is my great pleasure to inform you that Ms. Chunxia Zhao in the Whiteheart
Laboratory has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship from the University of
Kentucky.
October 5-7, 2006
Congratulations are due to Megan Sampley
for winning fourth place in the student competition for the Gill Heart
Institute Cardiovascular Research Day. In addition, according to Dr. Carole
Moncman there were numerous works from both our graduate students and
post-docs that were scored favorably in this competition, so we would like to
acknowledge all of these individuals that participated. The Gill Heart
Institute Cardiovascular Research Day is an event for UK that is growing each
year and provides students, fellows and staff the opportunity to discuss their
work in a scholarly fashion with other researchers.
September 29, 2006
Biochemistry
Rises to 12th in the Nation as Ranked by NIH
Letter from the Chair -
Congratulations to all of you.
The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry rose in NIH rankings of
public medical schools from 28th in 2000 to 12th in 2005. In terms of all
medical schools we've climbed from 54th to 26th. This is a fantastic accomplishment for which you all should be very proud of
yourselves.
Louis B. Hersh
George Schwert Professor and Chair
July 19, 2006
Dr. Kevin Sarge receives the
2006 Clinical and Translational Science Mentor
Award
As part of the 2006
Clinical and Translational Science Conference held on June 6, 2006, Dr. Kevin
Sarge received the 2006 Clinical and Translational Science Mentor Award.
Five awards were presented in the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and
Dentistry. The awards for the College of Medicine are:
•
Mike Reid, Ph.D.,
professor and chair of the Department of Physiology,
• Kevin Sarge, Ph.D., professor in
the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry,
and
•
Hartmut
Malluche, M.D., professor and division chief of
Nephrology
May 25, 2006
Four
Biochemistry Students Receive AHA Predoctoral Awards
Jennifer
Rudolph, Wangsun Choi, Jason Ren, and Richard Singiser have been awarded
Predoctoral Awards from the American Heart Association. These awards, which
will begin July 1, carry a stipend of $20,000 per year and provide two years
of support. We are very proud of these students as well as all our other
students who are putting forth effort to seek predoctoral support from this
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April 1, 2006
Biochemistry Professor
wins Great Teacher Award
Dr. Wally Whiteheart, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, has
received a Great Teacher Award for excellence in the classroom. This
prestigious award, only six of which were given by the University of Kentucky
this year, is based on nominations from students. It has been awarded
yearly since 1961, making it the oldest continuous honor bestowed by UK for
teaching excellence. We congratulate Dr. Whiteheart for his outstanding
contribution to quality teaching here at UK.
The complete News Release can be found at:
http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?artid=1163
December 9, 2005
Review featured as cover article
A review
authored by Dr. Kevin Sarge and Physiology faculty member Dr. Ok-Kyong
Park-Sarge was featured as the cover article for the November issue of
Trends in Biochemical Sciences, a top-ranked review journal in the
biomedical sciences. The article is: Sarge, K.D. and Park-Sarge, O.K. (2005)
Gene bookmarking: keeping the pages open. Trends Biochem. Sci. 30:
605-610.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16188444&query_hl=4
Click
here to see cover image
May 18, 2005
Biochemistry Chair Appointed Senior Associate Dean for Basic Science Affairs
Congratulations
to Dr. Louis B. Hersh, Department Chair for the Department of Molecular &
Cellular Biochemistry, the newly appointed Senior Associate Dean for Basic
Science Affairs. This new office advises the Dean and works collegially with
Senior Associate Deans for Research and Education on matters of academic
affairs and operations relating to the basic science departments. Dr. Hersh
has served as Chair for the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry
for 13 years and has been a guiding force in the development of the
department.
May 17, 2005
Christina Hines
awarded Medical Student Research Award
Biochemistry MD/Ph.D. graduate Christina
Hines was presented the Medical Student Research Award by Dr. Louis Hersh
(Chair) this past Saturday at the UK Medical School Senior Awards Brunch.
The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry is very proud of
Christina and her accomplishments and wishes her the best of luck throughout
her medical career.
May 17, 2005
Biochemistry Article selected as Research Highlight by Advanced Photon Source
A recent biochemistry article, titled:
Enzyme Mutations And Motor Disorders, was
selected as a research highlight by the annual publication of the Advanced
Photon Source. The paper stems from work performed by Yiying
(Crystal) Cai as part of her thesis research.
see: Y. Cai, C.N. Cronin, A.G. Engel, K. Ohno, L.B. Hersh, and D.W.
Rodgers, "Choline Acetyltransferase Structure Reveals Distribution of
Mutations that Cause Motor Disorders," EMBO J. 23, 2047 (2004)
May 11, 2005
Biochemistry Researcher Wins
Kirwan Prize
University of Kentucky
biochemistry professor
Louis Barry Hersh today received the
Albert D. and Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize at
the university’s 138th commencement.
The annual award,
which includes a $5,000 prize, recognizes a full-time UK faculty member for
outstanding contributions to original research or creative scholarship. It is
named in honor of Albert D. Kirwan, president of UK from 1968 to 1970, and his
wife, Elizabeth, and was established by their sons.
Hersh, who chairs the
UK Department of Biochemistry and is director of the
Kentucky Center for Structural Biology, was recognized for research that
attracted $3 million from outside grant agencies in 2004 alone. His recent
work focuses on decreasing the accumulation in the brain of the neurotoxin
amyloid beta peptide, believed to be a causative agent of Alzheimer’s disease.
He has identified two enzymes that degrade the amyloid beta peptide.
In the last four years,
Hersh has produced 39 articles in scientific journals such as Life Science,
Molecular and Cellular Biology and The Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. He was elected president in 2003 of the Association of Medical and
Graduate Departments of Biochemistry, and serves on the editorial boards of
several scholarly journals.
Apr. 18, 2005
2nd year MCB Students
Present at ASBMB Meeting
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FOR PHOTOS
2nd year MCB students Mary Bosserman,
Nick Noinaj, Megan Sampley, Rachel Schowalter, Melanie Silver, Rich Singiser,
Chiranthani Sumanesekera, and Nathan Vanderford presented their research data
at the Annual American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology that was
held April 2-6 in San Diego. Every year the department sends all 2nd year
students to the ASBMB meeting, which next year will be in San Francisco,
because it provides them an excellent opportunity to improve their research
presentation skills, learn about the work of other scientists, and make
professional connections that can be very valuable for their future career
success.
Apr. 1, 2005
2 Biochemistry Students Awarded UK Academic Excellence In-State Scholarships
The department would like to
congratulate two of our graduate students, Rachel Schowalter and Nathan
Vanderford, who have been awarded UK's Academic Excellence In-State Tuition
Scholarship.
Nov. 8, 2004
Large
Increase in MCB Grant Funding
"Over 11 million dollars in total grant funding was
obtained by researchers in the department for the period July 2003 to June
2004, a 40% increase over the level for the previous year. NIH grant dollars
rose from $4.7 million in fiscal year 2003 to over $8.3 million in
fiscal year 2004".
Oct. 27, 2004
Biochemistry Student Wins 2nd Place for
Poster at Gill Heart Institutes
Cardiovascular Research Day
Our graduate student Lisa Kelly Senetar was awarded
second place for her poster at the Gill Heart Institute's Cardiovascular
Research Day yesterday. She competed against over 60 students from throughout
the University for this honor.
Oct. 8, 2004
Dean Congratulates 2 Biochemistry Students for
Outstanding 1st Year Performance
Nathan Vanderford and Rachel Schowalter received high
praise from Dr. David Watt, Executive Dean for the UK College of Medicine, for
earning a GPA of 4.0 during their 1st year in the Integrated Biomedical
Sciences Program.
"This is a demanding curriculum, both in terms of the amount and level of
prescribed coursework and in terms of juggling coursework and bench research
during rotations. You have performed at a consistently high level
throughout this challenging year." - Dr. Watt
Rachel and Nathan were 5 out of 35 Students from
their class who achieved a "straight A" average.
Sept. 1, 2004
2 Biochemistry Students Make all-star
Rugby Team
4 Rugby Players Make all-star team (taken from
The Lexington Herald Leader): Four members of the Lexington Moths
Women's Rugby Club have been selected for the Ohio Rugby Union All-Star Team.
Mary Bosserman (Biochemistry), Sarah Martin, Natalie Mickelsen and
Rachel Schowalter (Biochemistry) represented local rugby at the
Midwest Rugby Tournament in Chicago last weekend. The tournament brought
together the best women players of the Ohio Union, pitting them against
all-star teams from other unions, including Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa.
The Lexington Moths are members of the Ohio Rugby Union and regularly play
against clubs in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee.
The Moths have started practice for the new season,
and new players are welcome. No age limit or experience is necessary.
For more information, contact Sarah Martin at (859) 913-4599 or email
mothrugby@yahoo.com.
August 6, 2004
Willie Craft receives NIH predoctoral award
June 30, 2004
Five MCB students win
American Heart Association predoctoral awards
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