That is correct, “they”, (meaning plural). Alfredo Erazo-Oliveras, a recent graduate student of our department, just received funding from the National Institute of Health AND a Ford Fellowship. What an honor! For the full story, click on the link below: NIH, Ford Foundation Honor Texas A&M Postdoctoral Researcher With Grant And Fellowship
Oh My….. $1,000.46 + Pies + Costumes + Donations + Pumpkins = HEROES!
October resulted in another busy but fun Fall Extravaganza for the departmental flower fund! Many thanks goes out to everyone who helped make it happen once again this year. We couldn’t do this without all of the support from everyone within the department and even outside of the department. We had VWR, Documation, Caremed, Napa… Read More →
New cryo-EM structures of Mtb ribosomes from Junjie Zhang’s group
Tuberculosis is a life-threatening disease that leads to ∼1.5 million annual human deaths, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). A common practice to treat this disease is to use antibiotics, half of which target the ribosome. To design ribosome-targeting antibiotics that potently and selectively kill Mtb without affecting the host, researchers need information on the structure… Read More →
Way To Represent
We are extremely proud of Sherry Coronado, Dr. Chavela Carr, Rafael Almanzar, Kristina Najjar and Jennifer Tran who were awarded the Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Awards on September 20, 2017. In addition, Drs. Jennifer Herman, Jorge Cruz-Reyes, Ping He, and Pingwei Li were recognized for their recent promotions. Dr. Dmitry Kurouski was welcomed as a new… Read More →
Dr. Hu presented with AFS College-Level Teaching Award
Dr. Hu was presented with Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award by Dr. Allan Sams and Mr. Marty Holmes who attended the Biochemistry and Biophysics department faculty meeting on September 4, 2017. Dr. Hu has been a member of the department for 25 years and has been very innovative in his teaching career by… Read More →
YES, We Played, YES, We Won
Hurricane Harvey had us all thinking our friendly little game would not be taking place on Friday, August 25, 2017, but that was not the case. Thankfully, the rains didn’t begin until later that night. As usual the softball game was a lot of fun. It seems like every year, the graduate students start off… Read More →
In the News Around the Country
Dr. Mei Liu, Program Director for the Center for Phage Technology reports, “In February 2016, the Center for Phage Technology (CPT, cpt.tamu.edu) was approached to help develop an emergency phage-based treatment for a patient in the ICU of the UC San Diego Medical Center with an intractable, pan-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection. In collaboration with the… Read More →
Welcome Our New 2017 NSF REU Students
Bottom to top rows, left to right Megan Welliver, Mandy Truelock, Jeffrey Rodriguez, Victoria Yell Harley Parker, Joyce Rivera, Allyson Li, Anthony Rudd Cameron Atkison, Erin Ruhlman, Emily Desormeaux, Joe LaMartina Mary Bryk, Rebekah Frazier, Jerry Cordero-Sepulveda, Gary Kunkel Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) has graciously been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Co-PI’s… Read More →
6/16/17 NSC notes
https://docs.google.com/a/tamu.edu/document/d/1-aLFNglG0o_dFCMn-4x0h0NyFyiQqWbLezJTL5uw-UQ/edit?usp=sharing
X. Zhang’s lab finds two new genes for RNA silencing
miRNAs play critical roles in almost every biological processes in eukaryotes. The tiny RNAs function in cytoplasm to silence target transcripts whereas they are born in nucleus in plants. On the other hand, the factory components that are used to produce miRNAs are made in cytoplasm while they need to be transported into the nucleus to process raw miRNA precursors. HYL1 is one of the core… Read More →