Dr. Robert Chapkin has been named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. He is the William W. Allen Endowed Chair in Nutrition and Chronic Disease Prevention at Texas A&M. He is a University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor and University Faculty Fellow in the Program in Integrative Nutrition and Complex Diseases. He is also… Read More →
Jason Allen
Jason Allen is a fourth year graduate student in the lab of Dr. Jean-Philippe Pellois. To better understand the mechanisms of cellular delivery, Jason is working on two research projects. First, he is investigating the impact of different hydrophobic moieties on the penetration efficiency of cell penetrating peptides. Second, involves using small extracellular vesicles called… Read More →
Dr. Taylor Weiss
Dr. Taylor Weiss received his PhD in 2012 in the lab of Dr. Tim Devarenne. He is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Management in The Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, and a member of The… Read More →
University Outstanding Juniors Award Winner
Karissa Yamaguchi is a Senior working under Dr. Xiuren Zhang and just received the University Outstanding Juniors Award! Both Karissa and Dr. Zhang attended a breakfast for the Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society at the University Club, where Karissa and other students were honored for their achievements. Congratulations Karissa! We’re all so proud of you!
Flower Fund Success
Every year in October, we host our Departmental Flower Fundraiser. This enables us to host events in order to raise money to buy flowers for those who incur a hospital stay, give birth, adopt, or lose a family member. This year, we hosted a Hula Hoop Competition, Costume Contest and Door Decorating Contest. Throughout the… Read More →
Charlie Farber
Charlie Farber is a second year graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Dmitry Kurouski. He is investigating the mechanisms of host/pathogen interactions using vibrational spectroscopy methods including Raman and IR. He is also interested in exploring the viability of Raman as a method for disease detection. Currently in his second year of the program, Charlie has published a… Read More →
Work of Graduate Student, Sachin Katti, Featured on Cover of Metallomics
The work of Sachin Katti, a graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (Igumenova lab), was recently featured on the cover of Metallomics (Metallomics. 2018 Sep 19;10(9):1211-1222. doi: 10.1039/c8mt00135a). In this manuscript, the authors report structural, thermodynamic, and kinetic characterization of Pb(II) interactions with the calcium-sensing domain of Synaptotagmin 1. Synaptotagmin 1 is… Read More →
2018 NACADA Outstanding Advising Global Award Winner
The National Conference on Academic Advising (NACADA) is an association of professional advisors, counselors, faculty, administrators, and students working to enhance the educational development of students. The Outstanding Advising Awards annually recognize individuals who have demonstrated qualities associated with outstanding academic advising of students or outstanding academic advising administration. The conference was held in Phoenix,… Read More →
Dr. Allison Cockrell Zugell
Dr. Allison Cockrell Zugell is a Scientist at Janssen, the pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson. Her research group develops HPLC and capillary based methods for late-phase biotherapeutics. Allison received her PhD in 2013 in the lab of Dr. Paul Lindahl. From 2013-2015, she worked at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC as a… Read More →
Dr. Mikaela Stewart
Dr. Mikaela Stewart received her PhD in 2013 in the lab of Dr. Tatyana Igumenova. She is an Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University. Mikaela teaches biochemistry and manages a lab with undergraduate and graduate students. Her research focuses on characterizing protein-protein interactions within BRCA1 intrinsically disordered region that are important for tumor-supression. Mikaela was… Read More →