Congratulations to Maxwell Zimmerman for being awarded the Dr. Philip Needleman Pharmacology Prize.
The award is presented annually from the Department of Developmental Biology to a graduating student demonstrating outstanding achievements it the field of Pharmacology. Maxwell is a PhD student in the Computational and Molecular Biophysics Program – he is completing his thesis research in the lab of Dr. Gregory Bowman. (more…)
Nguyen B., Ciuba M.A., Kozlov A.G., Levitus M., & Lohman T.M. (2019). “Protein Environment and DNA Orientation Affect Protein-Induced Cy3 Fluorescence Enhancement.” Biophys J. 2019 Jun 7. pii: S0006-3495(19)30448-5. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.05.026. [Epub ahead of print] (Abstract)
2019-06-03 – Joseph Mindell, Ph.D. – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health – “Protons to Patients: evaluating the role of the chloride transporter ClC-7 in lysosomal function” (more…)
Jensen D., Ruiz Manzano A., Rammohan J., Stallings C.L., & Galburt E.A. (2019). “CarD and RbpA modify the kinetics of initial transcription and slow promoter escape of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA polymerase.” Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 May 25. pii: gkz449. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz449. [Epub ahead of print] (Abstract)
Dyson H.J., Hall K.B., & Piston D.W. (2019). “Economics and Politics of Publishing in Our Mission-Driven Society.” Biophys J. 2019 May 21;116(10):E1-E2. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.04.019. Epub 2019 May 1. (Abstract)
2019-05-14 – Michael Greenberg, Ph.D. – Washington University in Saint Louis – “Dissecting the Mechanism of Familial Cardiomyopathies from the Ground Up” (more…)
The Board of Trustees voted at their May 3rd, 2019 meeting to award tenure in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics to Dr. Greg Bowman.
Sarem Hailemariam, Sandeep Kumar, & Peter M. Burgers (2019). “Activation of Tel1ATM kinase requires Rad50 ATPase and long nucleosome-free DNA, but no DNA ends.” J Biol Chem. 2019 Jun 28;294(26):10120-10130. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.008410. Epub 2019 May 9. (Abstract)
Heitmeier M.R., Hresko R.C., Edwards R.L., Prinsen M.J., Ilagan M.X.G., Odom John A.R, & Hruz P.W. (2019). “Identification of druggable small molecule antagonists of the Plasmodium falciparum hexose transporter PfHT and assessment of ligand access to the glucose permeation pathway via FLAG-mediated protein engineering.” PLoS One. 2019 May 9;14(5):e0216457. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216457. eCollection 2019. (Abstract)
Barrick S.K., Clippinger S.R., Greenberg L., & Greenberg M.J. (2019). “Computational Tool to Study Perturbations in Muscle Regulation and Its Application to Heart Disease.” Biophys J. 2019 May 7. pii: S0006-3495(19)30379-0. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.05.002. [Epub ahead of print] (Abstract)