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ANNOUNCEMENT
Effective September 1, 2009, Jill Rafael-Fortney will be the new Director for the Ohio State Biochemistry Program.
Dr. Rafael-Fortney received her B.A. from Cornell in 1991, Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1996 and was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford. She has been a member of the OSU faculty since 1999.
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FACULTY AWARD
Dr. Michael K. Chan, Interim Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry and Professor , Dept. of Bio-chemistry, Chemistry and Ohio State Bio-chemistry Program Won the Distinguished Scholar Award. Dr. Chan is the co-discoverer of a new, 22nd genetically-encoded amino acid. Dr. Chan received his PhD in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. He completed his post-doctoral research at the California Institute of Technology.
Our Autumn 2009 Class
Our students come from around the world to attend
the Ohio State Biochemistry Program
Congratulations Summer 2009 GRADS!
Jason Fowler - Advisor: Zucai Suo
Yi Guo - Advisor: Ross Dalbey
Jason Lavinder - Advisor: Thomas Magliery
Wenpeng Zhang - Advisor: Peng Wang
Yali Zhang - Advisor: Shang-Tian Yang
DECEMBER 2008 GRADS
Yanjun Hou, Ph.D. - Dr. Michael Ostrowski, Advisor
Min Li, Ph.D. - Dr. Patrick Green, Advisor
Fei Wang, Ph.D. - Dr. Jiyan Ma, Advisor
Wen Yi, Ph.D. - Dr. George Wang, Advisor
Xin Yin, Ph.D. - Dr. Tsonwin Hai, Advisor
Student Awards
Abdulkerim Eroglu
- was the 2009-2010 recipient of the Virginia Vivian Research Award supporting graduate research in Human Nutrition entitled: "The link between apocarotendoids and nuclear receptor signaling.”
John Shimko
- took 2nd Place Poster and received a $100 award in the recent Hayes Graduate Research Forum for his work, "Total Synthesis and Characterization of Histone H3 Acetylated at Lysine 56". The Hayes Graduate Research Forum recognizes outstanding graduate student scholars from 10 colleges across the University.
Wen-I Luo
- Won the Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) by the Graduate School with the project title "The Role of Human Mortalin in Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biosynthesis" under the supervision of Dr. James A. Cowan. The scholarship provides up to $2000 for dissertation research support and starts in July, 2009.
Jinjin Zhang
- Best Poster Winner - DNA Replication, Repair and Recombination Theme at ASBMB Annual Meeting for the poster: Crystal Structure of E.coli RecE Exonuclease Reveals a Toroidal Tetramer for Processing Double Stranded DNA Breaks,
Jinjin Zhang, Xu Xing, Andrew B. Herr, and Charles E. Bell
Christopher Jones
- Gave a talk entitled "HIV Gag Protein Ungergoes a Conformational Switch Mediated by RNA and Membrane Interactions During Virus Assembly" at the Hayes Graduate Research Forum. He won second place "Best in Academic Area" in the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Students from 10 colleges participated in the annual event. The award of a plaque and a travel grant was based both on the written paper and on the oral presentation.
Shanen Sherrer
- won the Robert H. Edgerly Environmental Toxicology Summer Fellowship to work on the project "Mutagenic Investigation of Bulky Lesion Bypass by a Y-Family DNA Polymerase" using the lab's recently developed SOSA to obtain the mutagenic patterns generated by Dpo4 as it transversed a DNA lesion caused by air pollution. She also won a fellowship with the Chemical Biology Interface Training Program.
- Shanen was also awarded an AHA predoctoral fellowship for 2009-2011.
Jessica Brown
- was awarded the 2009 Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School for outstanding scholarship and research ability.
- is the winner of a 2008-2009 International P.E.O. Scholar Award and the American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for 2008-2010.
OUR GRADUATES - WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOW
Drs. Thomas Conrads and Brian Hood
Drs. Thomas Conrads and Brian Hood, former graduate students of the OSBP who both earned their Ph.D.s under the direction of Dr. Russ Hille, recently established a new laboratory housed in the Hillman Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI). Dr. Conrads joined the Faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Co-Director of the Clinical Proteomics Facility in the UPCI. Dr. Brian Hood, after working with Dr. Conrads when he was director of the mass spectrometry laboratory at the National Cancer Institute, was recruited as a Senior Research Scientist to assist with the initiation and implementation of their efforts in clinical proteomics.