NEWS
 

Three AHA pre-doctoral fellowship winners

Three of our Biophysics students, namely Xin Li, Bin Liu, and Michelle Monasky, were awarded pre-doctoral fellowships by the American Heart Association in the 2008 competition. These awards cover stipend and benefits for one or two years and are competitively chosen among applicants from Delaware, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.


May 17, 2008 - Second annual MLS-IGP symposium

The students and faculty from the OSU Molecular Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs will come together for their second annual symposium on Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 9am to 6pm. The symposium will feature three faculty talks, about 24 student talks, and many student posters. Program students in their fourth or higher year are required to present a poster. For information, registration, and abstract submission (deadline 4/21) go to the symposium web site http://bioserv.mps.ohio-state.edu/igpsymp/2008.


Marianne Lee wins presidential fellowship

Marianne Lee has been awarded an OSU Presidential Fellowship. This competitively awarded fellowship provides one full year of support for the final year of a graduate student. Usually, only approximately 15 fellowships are awarded in every competition.


Ryan Pavlovicz wins American Foundation of Pharmaceutical Education Pre-Doctoral fellowship

Ryan Pavlovicz was awarded a 2008 American Foundation of Pharmaceutical Education Pre-Doctoral fellowship. Of these fellowships only up to 60 are awarded nationally every year.


Elizabeth Gross and Outstanding Student awards

At the 2008 Robert Ross lecture the Elizabeth L. Gross award for faculty excellence and the outstanding academic achievement awards were presented.

The Elizabeth L. Gross award is awarded by the students of the program to a faculty member in recognition for excellence in student mentoring, teaching, research and numerous contributions to the Biophysics program. This year's awardee is Dongping Zhong.

The outstanding academic achievement award is given to a student in the program that is distinguished through publications, conference presentations, and external awards. This year's award was shared by Weihong Qiu and Rui Xiao.


Apr 21, 2008 - Nobel prize winner Ahmed Zewail is 2008 Robert Ross lecturer

Nobel prize winner Ahmed Zewail will give the 2008 Robert Ross lecture on 4/21/2008 at 2:30 in 170 DHLRI. Ahmed Zewail is a pioneer in the field of ultrafast spectroscopy with wide ranging impact on Chemistry, Material Science, Physics, and Life Sciences. In his presentation entitled Physical Biology and Visualization of Complexity he will present recent advances made in 4D visualization and the potential for applications, from atoms to cells. Complexity and emergence are two concepts that he will explore with particular focus on their relevance to myriads of studies in physical biology.

Other activities on that day include a poster session (with snacks) before the lecture in the atrium of DHLRI, the presentation of the Dr. Elizabeth L. Gross Award for Faculty Excellence and the Outstanding Student Award, as well as an opportunity for students to meet with the speaker after the lecture (food provided). 		 


Michelle Monasky and Manoj Nair win 2nd place at Hayes

Michelle Monasky and Manoj Nair both won a second place at the 22nd annual Hayes Graduate Research Forum. The Hayes Graduate Research forum features presentations by graduate students from all disciplines at OSU and is highly competitive. Manoj Nair won in Biological Sciences and Michelle Monasky in Professional Biological Sciences.


2007 best student presentation awards

By vote of our students this year's best student presentation award winners are Sarah Javaid, Marianne Lee, and Manoj Nair. All three will be able to give a presentation at the Biophysics seminar at Ohio University and obtain a honorarium for that presentation.


Katryna Cisek wins OSU comprehensive cancer center poster award

Katryna Cisek working under the supervision of Chenglong Li won a poster award in the 2008 OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center annual scientific meeting. Her topics is a discovery of novel STAT3 dimerization inhibitors via computational design.


Manoj Nair wins Joshua E. Neimark Memorial Travel Assistance Endowment grant

Manoj Nair wins a Joshua E. Neimark Memorial Travel Assistance Endowment grant to present his research at the 2008 Annual meeting of the AAAS at Boston, MA (Feb 14-18). He is one of ten winners of this award in 2008.


Manoj Nair wins OSU Graduate School Alumni Grant

Manoj Nair was one of 16 receipients of the Ohio State Graduate School Alumni Grants for Graduate Research & Scholarship in the 2007 fall quarter.


Xin Li publishes in PNAS

Third year student Xin Li published a manuscript in PNAS under the supervision of Michael Chan. The full reference is:

Xin Li, Sanjay Jayachandran, Hiep-Hoa T. Nguyen, and Michael K. Chan
Structure of the Nitrosomonas europaea Rh protein
PNAS 2007 104: 19279-19284