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2018 NACADA Outstanding Advising Global Award Winner

10Oct

Rafael Almanzar

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 →

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Awards Ceremony

14Sep

Dean's Outstanding Achievement Award

On September 13, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences held their College Awards Ceremony. The ceremony consisted of the recognition of new, promoted, and tenured faculty, presentation of awards, 2018 special recognition, and recipients of National and University-level awards. In the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, we had one new faculty member and six… Read More →

NMR Facility Officially Relocated

12Sep

NMR Facility layout

The relocation of the 600 superconducting magnet from the old to the new Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility has been completed. The magnet successfully reached the field of 14.1 Tesla and is currently in the stabilization phase. The Biomolecular NMR facility has been in the works for several years – and it is finally… Read More →

Best Poster Award in ICORS 2018

3Sep

Dr. Kurouski and Charlie Farber

Congratulations to Charlie Farber, 2nd year PhD student in Dr. Dmitry Kurouski’s Lab, for winning the best poster award at ICORS 2018 Conference in Korea. ICORS is the International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy that is held every other year in Asia, Europe and America. This year, around 900 scientists came from all different parts of… Read More →

NIH Fellowship Winner

9Aug

Natalie Garza

Congratulations to Natalie Garza, who has recently been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship from the NIH. These prestigious and highly competitive fellowships are given to very few students every year. The purpose of this fellowship is to support the health-related research of predoctoral students from population groups that have been shown to be… Read More →

Gohil Lab discovers a potential therapy for disorders of copper metabolism

6Aug

Shiva and Dr. Gohil

Exciting new research from the Gohil Lab shows that elesclomol, an investigational anti-cancer drug, can be repurposed for the treatment of copper metabolism disorders. This finding published in a recent issue of PNAS is of high biomedical significance as inherited mutations that prevent copper delivery to a critical mitochondrial enzyme result in fatal infantile disorders… Read More →

ASBMB National Award Winners

2Jul

The department received some outstanding news this week! Dr. Dorothy Shippen, along with Dr. Vytas Bankaitis, will be receiving an ASBMB award in April 2019 in Orlando, FL. Dr. Shippen will receive the William C. Rose Award and Dr. Bankaitis will receive the Avanti Award in Lipids. For further details, please see the link below… Read More →

Bio/Bio Welcomes a new crew of REU students!

19Jun

Dr. Gary Kunkel and Dr. Mary Bryk are once again coordinating a summer research experience for undergraduates who come from all over the United States. We have been very fortunate to have a few of these students make a decision to further their education and apply to our graduate program. We truly hope they all… Read More →

Dean Patrick Stover talks about Folate Metabolism

24May

Ashley Holt Joins an Elite Group of Astronaut Scholars

21May

Ashley Holt is a Biomed Engineering Student who works in the Center for Phage Technology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University. She has been selected by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation to join an elite group of Astronaut Scholars for the 2018/2019 academic school year. As a part of this honor,… Read More →

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