Dr. T. Scott Pinkerton received his PhD in 2004 after working in a collaborative project between Dr. Jim Wild’s lab at TAMU and a local biotech company in College Station. Scott then went on to a post-doctoral research molecular biologist position with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service at the National Center… Read More →
2019 Guseman Award Winner
Drew Roth, from the Rye Lab, is the recipient of the 2019 Guseman Award by the Graduate & Professional Student Council. The GPSC offers awards each year which honor students and faculty who go above and beyond to serve the Council, University and Community. The Guseman Award recognizes graduate and professional students for their outstanding… Read More →
2019 Distinguished Achievement Award Winner
The Distinguished Achievement Awards, sponsored by The Association of Former Students and Texas A&M University, recognized 24 outstanding faculty and staff for superior performance in the classroom, laboratory, campus office, or clinic, in these categories: Teaching; Research; Student Relations; Administration; Extension, Outreach, and Continuing Education; Staff; and Graduate Mentoring. The university-level Distinguished Achievement Awards were… Read More →
Texas Genetics Society Presentation Award
Earlier this month at the Texas Genetics Society 46th Annual Meeting, Donna Iadarola from Dr. Vishal Gohil’s lab, received the Best Graduate Student Platform Presentation Award for her talk titled: Molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial phosphatidylethanolamine import. Congratulations Donna!
Goldwater Fellowship Recipient
Alison Vicary, a BioBio senior undergraduate in Dr. Vishal Gohil’s lab, received this year’s Barry Goldwater Scholarship! This is the most prestigious, nationally competitive undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering in America. This award comes with $7,500 and was given to 496 college students from across the United States, with Alison being… Read More →
President’s Meritorious Service Award Winner
Monday, April 22, was Texas A&M University’s 32nd annual presentation of the President’s Meritorious Service Awards. President Michael K. Young recognized 25 individual staff member, two supervisors and two staff teams with this prestigious award. They were recognized for demonstrating their commitment to the Aggie core values of excellence, integrity, leadership, loyalty, respect and selfless… Read More →
John Mosior
John Mosior is a 5th year graduate student in the lab of Dr. James Sacchettini. John utilizes a multidisciplinary approach, including structural biology, molecular biology, enzymology and the principles of biochemical assay development to further his Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) drug discovery research. He serves as an important member of the PptT team, a group within the Tuberculosis… Read More →
President’s Excellence Fund Symposium
The President’s Excellence Fund Symposium, took place on Thursday, April 4, which was held in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. The symposium consisted of presentations given by X-Grant award recipients and poster sessions by T3 award recipients. Four of our faculty were T3 award recipients: Drs. Tatyana Igumenova, Frank Raushel, Jim Sacchettini, and Junjie Zhang…. Read More →
1st Annual Biophysical Society Symposium
The Biophysical Society had their first annual symposium of the year on March 29. Students of different departments ranging from Biochemistry, Chemistry and Engineering, participated in either oral presentations, or poster presentations. Of the six oral presentations, two were from Biochemistry, two from Chemistry and two from Biomedical Engineering, along with one of them being… Read More →
Dr. Rebecca Murphy
Dr. Rebecca Murphy received her Ph.D. in 2012 in the lab of Dr. John Mullet where her research was focused on the improvement of agriculturally important crop species, with emphasis on flowering time regulation in Sorghum bicolor. Her dissertation work was published in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and her research… Read More →