On February 15, 2017 in Fort Worth, Texas, Rafael Almanzar received the 2017 TEXAAN Outstanding Academic Advisor Award. TEXAAN, which stands for Texas Academic Advising Network, serves as a professional representation of academic advising excellence in Texas by providing professional development, networking, recognition, and dissemination of information. Originally from the Bronx, New York, Rafael relocated… Read More →
Cell-cycle control of lipogenic enzymes at the level or protein synthesis
A new paper, spearheaded by Michael Polymenis’ lab here in Bio/Bio, has recently appeared in The EMBO Journal. Underscoring the collaborative nature of research at Texas A&M, critical contributors to the study include Brian Kennedy’s lab at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Prof. Rodolfo Aramayo’s lab from the Texas A&M Department of Biology,… Read More →
Single cell analysis of cell fate decisions in phage infection of bacteria
A new paper from Lanying Zeng, a member of the Center for Phage Technology and the Texas A&M Biochemistry and Biophysics Department has just appeared in Nature Communications. First author on the paper titled “Cell fate decisions emerge as phages cooperate or compete inside their host” is Jimmy Trinh, a Bio/Bio grad student. Critical contributions… Read More →
Betty Cotton receives 2017 AgriLife Office and Administrative Staff Award
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.
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 →
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 →