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OUR AUTUMN 08 CLASS

 

AU 08 Class

Our students come from around the world to attend the Ohio State Biochemistry Program

 

 


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

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.

Jessica Brown - is the winner of a 2008-2009 International P.E.O. Scholar Award and the American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for 2008-2010.





NEW FEATURE!
OUR GRADUATES - WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOW

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.

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ANNOUNCEMENT
Che Maxwell retires May 29, 2009. Please contact
Candy Danforth, Biochemistry Dept., 614-292-6772 for OSBP information.
   



The final OSBP/MCDB/Molecular Genetics Seminar for this academic year will be

June 2
4 p.m.,
Tuesday, 170 Davis Heart & Lung Institute

     
   

Dr. Jodi Nunnari

Section of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Univ. of California at Davis

"The machines that divide and fuse mitochondria"

 


     
     
    FACULTY AWARD

Dr. Michael K. Chan, Interim Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry and Professor , Dept. of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Ohio State Biochemistry 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 Techonlogy.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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