Sunny, and 73 ° F. BioBio News
| Rhodes Finalist |
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| posted by Betty Cotton - 11/13/2009 08:36 am For the second year in a row, one of our majors has been selected as a Rhodes Finalist. (Last year it was Matt Hickey, now a first year medical student at UCSF.) We have some fantastic undergrads in our program! Please notice at the bottom of this announcement that the last Rhodes Scholar from Texas A&M was Nick Anthis '05, also one of our majors. |
| Congrats to Prof. Frantom |
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| posted by Jim Hu - 06/10/2009 09:55 pm Former BioBio grad student Patrick Frantom is joining the faculty in the Chemistry Dept. at the Univ. of Alabama. Patrick becomes the second recent grad from our department added to the faculty at Alabama, joining Laura Busenlehner. |
| Congratulations to Eric Greene |
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| posted by Jim Hu - 04/02/2009 02:36 pm Former Shippen lab and BioBio grad student Eric Greene has been selected for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Early Career Scientist Program |
| NMR Construction Has Begun |
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| posted by Betty Cotton - 11/24/2008 03:51 pm Finally, we are starting to see some progress on construction of the new NMR facility that will be appended to our building. A ground breaking or site dedication ceremony will be scheduled in the near future. The projected completion date is June 2010. |
| First Feast |
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| posted by Betty Cotton - 11/24/2008 02:17 pm The BGA and the administrative staff worked together to host a departmental Thanksgiving feast on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. There was lots of food, lots of attendees and before it was over, there was lots of full tummies. A big thanks goes out to everyone who pitched in to make our first Departmental Thanksgiving Feast such a huge success and a special thanks to Andrew Nelson who made the idea come to life! |
| Margaret Glasner |
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| posted by Betty Cotton - 11/24/2008 02:12 pm November 1, 2008 marked the start date for Assistant Professor, Margaret Glasner to the departmental Bio/Bio family. She comes to us from the University of California-San Francisco. Her area of expertise is in evolution of protein structure and function. Please help welcome Dr. Glasner to her new research and teaching career at Texas A&M. |
| Pellois paper picked by Faculty of 1000 |
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| posted by Jim Hu - 10/17/2008 01:25 am A recent JACS paper by Lee et al., has been tagged as recommended. |
| Dr. Hu interviewed by Nature |
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| posted by Betty Cotton - 09/05/2008 04:34 pm Dr. Hu was recently interviewed by Mitchell Waldrop with Nature and his expertise in 'Big Data' and how it is affecting science. This article 'Wikiomics' can be found online at this website |
| Xiuren Zhang |
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| posted by Betty Cotton - 01/23/2008 02:46 pm It gives me great pleasure to announce that Xiuren Zhang, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, has accepted our offer to become an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and in the Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology. Although Xiuren's laboratory will be located in the Borlaug Center and he will be a member of the IPBG, in all other respects Xiuren will be a full member of this department. He will likely start his appointment in August, 2008. |
| More changes...TAES to AgriLife Research |
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| posted by Betty Cotton - 01/16/2008 01:36 pm New Release by Kathleen Phillips and Dave Mayes |