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 →
2 Receive Distinguished Award
Our students and our faculty are among the BEST at Texas A&M University and on Monday, April 25, 2016 Dr. Peterson and Yi Duan attested to this fact by receiving the Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching. Dr. Dave Peterson has been a member of our department for 34 years. This was a recognition that he… Read More →
Research from Devarenne lab in Nature Communications
On April 6, 2016 the Devarenne Lab published a paper in Nature Communications describing the isolation and characterization of an enzyme from the green alga Botryococcus braunii responsible for the production of hydrocarbons in this alga. This enzyme, known as lycopaoctaene synthase (LOS), initiates the production of a hydrocarbon known as lycopadiene. LOS is unique… Read More →
Almanzar Wins Region 7 Certificate of Merit Advising Award
Rafael Almanzar was named the recipient of the 2016 NACADA Region 7 Certificate of Merit for Outstanding New Advisor. Rafael received this award at the annual NACADA Region 7 Conference in Manhattan Kansas on March 1, 2016. NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) was created to promote quality academic advising and professional development to ensure the… Read More →
Three President’s Meritorious Service Award Winners
Monday, February 29, 2016 Tillie Rausch, Terry Lovingshimer and Jenny Ponzio were recognized for their outstanding support to Texas A&M University at the President’s Meritorious Service Awards Banquet. They were the only staff from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to receive this recognition this year. They were proceeded in this recognition by Melissa… Read More →
Anthony Sperber wins 3-minute thesis competition
Congratulations to Anthony Sperber, a Biochemistry Ph.D. student in Jen Herman’s group for winning the local 3MT competition. Read more about Anthony and 3MT in our February Departmental Newsletter. On to regionals!
Cutting edge research from Junjie Zhang’s group
New cryo-EM structures from Junjie Zhang’s group in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics were highlighted in the January 2016 issue of Structure. Phosphorus is an important nutrient in all forms of life, and phosphorus availability is often limited for agriculture. The C-P lyase from bacteria recycles phosphorus-containing compounds by cleaving a wide variety compounds containing… Read More →
Claudia Marcela Castillo Gonzales receives 2015 VC Award for Graduate Student Research
January 14, 2016, the Awards Ceremony was held for the Texas A&M AgriLife 2015 Vice Chancellor’s Award Program where Ms. Claudia Marcela Castillo Gonzales received the outstanding Graduate Student in Research Award. Ms. Castillo is in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the lab of Dr. Xiuren Zhang. Her research concerns the ways that… Read More →
A TrAP for KRYPTONITE
Hosts and viruses fight for survival has resulted in a great arsenal of molecular weapons. The host combats DNA viruses by preventing expression of their genomes and by destroying their transcripts. These tactics are known as transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing (TGS and PTGS), respectively. On the other side, surviving viruses must have evolved strategies… Read More →
Dean’s Achievement Award for Faculty Mentoring
Dr. Ry Young was awarded the Dean’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Faculty Mentoring on September 16, 2015 at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 2015 Awards Ceremony. This award recognized and encourages excellence in faculty mentoring. It was quite fitting for Dr. Young to be recognized for this award because in 1995 he implemented… Read More →