Dr. Weikai Li Awarded Tenure
The Board of Trustees voted at their March 1st, 2019 meeting to award tenure in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics to Dr. Weikai Li. He is also promoted to the rank of Associate Professor.
Category: 2019 News
Dr. Bowman Appointed Director of Folding@home
Dr. Greg Bowman was appointed as the new Director for the supercomputing project called Folding@home. The project seeks to unravel the mysteries of protein dynamics, including the folding process, and their roles in health and disease. Please click here to read more about it.
Dr. Michael Kinch on Living St. Louis
January 14th, 2019 – Washington University’s Dr. Michael Kinch spoke on PBS Living St. Louis about vaccines and the anti-vaccine movement of today.
2018 David F. Silbert Summer Fellowship
Congratulations to John LeClair and Meng’ou (Mary) Zhu for receiving the 2018 David F. Silbert Summer Fellowship Award.
John LeClair worked with Drs. Lisa D McKenzie and Milan G Chheda on a project entitled “Characterizing the role of CHD4 in glioblastoma treatment response”, and Meng’ou (Mary) Zhu worked with Drs. Matthew J Walter and Michael O Alberti on a project entitled “Mutant U2AF1(Q157P) expression alters hematopoiesis in vivo.” (more…)