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MCB People in the News
September 23, 2009 — Chair of Biochemistry wins William R. Willard Award
September 23, 2009 – Lous B. Hersh (Chair of Biochemistry) was awarded William R. Willard Dean’s Recognition Award at the Academic Convocation and Awards Day ceremony. This Recognition Award is given to a UKMC faculty member to honor contributions, achievements, and service over an extended period.
September 23, 2009 — Dr. Turco awarded Silver Pointer Award
Dr. Sam Turco was awarded the 2008-2009 Silver Pointer Award by the Class of 2012 medical students as the best teacher in the first year. This is the 12th time Dr. Turco has been honored with this prestigious award.
June 2, 2009 — Dr LeVine Recieves Prestigious CART Award
The CART fund is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental Alzheimer’s disease research projects within the United States by
providing support for the early and conceptual plans of those projects that may not yet be supported by extensive preliminary data but have the potential to substantially advance biomedical research.
Full article can be found here: Cart Award
February 5, 2009 — Dr. Stamm appointed to the Jacqueline A. Noonan, M.D. Professorship in Pediatrics
The award was given in recognition for Dr. Stamm's prader-willi research. In attendance were Chair of Biochemistry Louis Hersh, Tim Bricker, Dean of the College of Medicine Jay Perman, Dr. Jacqueline Noonan, and Dr. Stefan Stamm
Shown left to right: Award Picture
January 17, 2009 — BCH Students very productive in 2008
In 2008, Biochemistry Graduate students were authors on 18 peer-reviewed research papers and made 43 scientific presentations on their work. We are very proud of our students for this high level of productivity.
November 11, 2008 — BCH Wins Teaching Award
The Department of Biochemistry was honored with the 2007-2008 Golden Podium Award which is awarded by the medical students as the best teaching department in the first year. Teaching faculty involved are Sam Turco (Course director), Kevin Sarge, Michael Fried, Peter Spielmann, and David Watt.
November 11, 2008 — Dr Turco Wins Teaching Award
Dr. Sam Turco was awarded the 2007-2008 Silver Pointer Award by the medical students as the best teacher in the first year. This is the eleventh time Dr. Turco has been honored with this prestigious award.
October 28, 2008 — Sarge lab has paper in Nature Cell Biology
The Sarge lab has a paper that will appear in the November issue of Nature Cell Biology that shows that the basal transcription factor TATA-binding protein (TBP) plays an important role in gene bookmarking, the process by which the memory of active gene expression patterns is maintained during mitosis so that it can be transmitted to daughter cells. Most of the experiments were done by Hongyan Xing, a Research Associate in the lab. Nathan Vanderford, who went on to get a Ph.D. from the Ozcan lab, contributed some data obtained during his rotation in the Sarge lab. Click here to read the article.
October 22, 2008 — Dr. Vander Kooi Paper Editor-Selected
University of Kentucky's Dr. Vander Kooi published papers in ACS Publications are part of the Editor-Selected Papers in Biophysics. Click here to read the article.
October 21, 2008 —
BCH Students Publish 20 Papers in 2007
University of Kentucky BCH students are active in 2007, publishing papers and providing quality presentations of their works. Click here to read the productivity report.
August 8, 2008 —
Dr Haining Zhu receives Maciag Award
University of Kentucky associate professor of molecular and cellular
biochemistry, Haining Zhu, has been named the recipient of the prestigious
Maciag Award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for
Research Resources. Zhu received this honor in recognition of his many
research accomplishments and for his exceptional ability to mentor young
scientists.
Click here to read the article at University of
Kentucky 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.
December 12, 2007
—
The Faces of Research:
Jamie Cantrell
The interesting research project of Jamie
Cantrell, a Biochemistry student, is featured in an
article in the latest Dean’s newsletter.
Jamie is a student in Dr Sabire Ozcan’s laboratory. Also of note is that this nice
article was written by Rachel Ahmed, a student in Dr Paul Murphy’s lab.
Click here to read the article.
December 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.
November 12, 2007
— Gill Heart
Institute Cardiovascular Research Day Award
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.
May 31, 2007 —
Predoctoral Fellowships
Megan
Sampley, Steve
Smith, and Nathan Vanderford have been awarded predoctoral fellowships from the
American Heart Association. Megan and Nathan are students in the lab of
Dr Sabire Ozcan, and Steve is a student in the lab of Dr Dan Noonan.
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.
Click here to read the article at University of
Kentucky News.
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...
Click here to read more.
March 6, 2007 —
Biochemistry Student
Wins Presidential Fellowship
Chunxia Zhao, a student in Dr Wally Whiteheart's laboratory, has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship from the University of
Kentucky for the 2007-2008 academic year.
October 5-7, 2006
—
Biochemistry Student Wins Award at the
11th
Biennial Midwest Platelet Conference
At the 11th
Biennial Midwest Platelet
Conference (October 5-7) in Chicago, Qiansheng “Jason” Ren won an award for his
talk entitled “VAMP-8/Endobrevin is the primary v-SNARE required for the
platelet release reaction."
October 13, 2006 —
Gill Heart
Institute Cardiovascular Research Day
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
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.
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:
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Mike Reid, PhD,
professor and chair of the Department of Physiology,
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Kevin Sarge, PhD, professor in
the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry,
and
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Hartmut
Malluche, MD, 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
and other sources.
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 here.
December 9, 2005 —
Review featured as cover article
A review
authored by Biochemistry faculty 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, KD, Park-Sarge OK. (2005) Gene bookmarking: keeping the pages open. Trends Biochem. Sci. 30:
605-610.
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, Chair for the Department of Molecular and
Cellular Biochemistry, for being appointed Senior Associate Dean for Basic
Science Affairs in the College of Medicine. This newly created 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 and 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/PhD 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, CN Cronin, AG
Engel, K Ohno, LB Hersh, DW
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.
April 18, 2005
— 2nd year MCB Students
Present at ASBMB Meeting
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 Meeting of the 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.
Click here for photos from this year's trip.
April 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.
November 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.
October 27, 2004
— Biochemistry Student Wins 2nd Place for
Poster at Gill Heart Institutes
Cardiovascular Research Day
Biochemistry 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.
October 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 IBS class who achieved a "straight A" average. Rachel is
now a student in Becky Dutch's laboratory, and Nathan is in Dr Sabire
Ozcan's laboratory.
September 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 —
Biochemistry student received NIH predoctoral award
Willie Craft, a student in
Dr Becky Dutch's laboratory, received an NIH predoctoral award.
Click here to read more.
June 30, 2004 —
Five Biochemistry students win
American Heart Association predoctoral awards
Click here to read about their awards.
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