At the 2017 Texas A&M AgriLife Awards Ceremony held on Jan. 9, 2017, Betty Cotton received the Office and Administrative Staff Award in Excellence. Mrs. Cotton has been with the department for 16 years and enjoys assisting the department head, faculty, staff and students. Formally, she is the assistant to the department head and supervises… Read More →
Benchtop Boys – I want to graduate
Last night at the Biochemistry Holiday Party, the BGA showed their annual video.
Qiuyan Shao named this year’s Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memoral Award Recipient in Research
Dr. Greg Reinhart and Dr. Lanying Zeng were please to hear that Ms. Qiuyan Shao was selected for this year’s Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research from the Department of Biochemistry and Biphysics. Qiuyan joined the department in 2011 and has made tremendous contributions to basic science already and we feel confident, she will continue… Read More →
PCL Expands to Include Metabolomic Analysis
There are new metabolomics services available at Texas A&M. Larry Dangott (Dept of Biochemistry & Biophysics and The Protein Chemistry Laboratory (PCL)) and Arul Jayaraman (Dept of Chemical Engineering) were recently awarded $1.55M by the Research Development Fund (of the OVPR) to expand the PCL capabilities and establish the Integrated Metabolomics Analysis Core (IMAC) for… Read More →
Structure of an ssRNA virus from J. Zhang’s lab
A new cryo-EM structure from Junjie Zhang’s group in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics is highlighted and on the cover of the October 11 2016 issue of PNAS. Bacteriophage Qβ is a single-stranded RNA virus that infects bacteria that have F-pili. In collaboration with the Young group at Texas A&M, two graduate students, Karl Gorzelnik and Zhicheng… Read More →
Dr. Jim Hu and Dr. Dave Peterson Recognized for 2016 Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Awards
It’s always a great day when we see our faculty being recognized for all of their hard work. Our entire department celebrates with them in their accomplishments! Dr. Dave Peterson received this years Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Award in Administration and Dr. James (Jim) Hu received the Educational Enrichment and Innovation Award. Dr. Peterson has been… Read More →
Faculty Win
Friday, August 26, 2016 we welcomed our new incoming class of 20 graduate students with another friendly softball game and BBQ at Sue Haswell Park in Bryan, TX. The weather looked questionable but the faculty prevailed for yet another great win against the graduate students. The final score was 7 to 4 and the battle… Read More →
Molecular interactions in activation of the innate immune response
In conjunction with collaborators at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Jun Yuan Ji’s lab at Texas A&M University Health Science Center, and elswhere, Bio/Bio’s Pingwei Li and colleagues have just published exciting new work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The paper, published online June 2, is entitled “Structural basis for concerted recruitment and… Read More →
Understanding lock for cellular trap door may lead to better disease treatment
May 5, 2016 Writer:Kathleen Phillips, 979-845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Jean-Philippe Pellois, 979-845-0101, pellois@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION — A team of researchers who two years ago announced a “Trojan horse” method of entering a cell without harming it have now found, in effect, the lock to the cellular “trap door.” The research, led by Dr. Jean-Philippe Pellois,… Read More →
Trina Gregory named the recipient of the Ed Guthrie Advising Award for 2016
What an honor and a legacy was bestowed upon the Gregory family today when they accepted the Ed Guthrie Award on behalf of their amazing daughter, Trina Gregory. The Ed Guthrie Advisor Award recognizes the efforts of faculty and staff members who exemplify former advisor Dr. Ed Guthrie’s spirit and concern for student’s welfare combined… Read More →