Earlier this month at the Texas Genetics Society 46th Annual Meeting, Donna Iadarola from Dr. Vishal Gohil’s lab, received the Best Graduate Student Platform Presentation Award for her talk titled: Molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial phosphatidylethanolamine import. Congratulations Donna!
John Mosior
John Mosior is a 5th year graduate student in the lab of Dr. James Sacchettini. John utilizes a multidisciplinary approach, including structural biology, molecular biology, enzymology and the principles of biochemical assay development to further his Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) drug discovery research. He serves as an important member of the PptT team, a group within the Tuberculosis… Read More →
1st Annual Biophysical Society Symposium
The Biophysical Society had their first annual symposium of the year on March 29. Students of different departments ranging from Biochemistry, Chemistry and Engineering, participated in either oral presentations, or poster presentations. Of the six oral presentations, two were from Biochemistry, two from Chemistry and two from Biomedical Engineering, along with one of them being… Read More →
Dr. Allison Ortigosa
Dr. Allison Ortigosa is the Executive Director of Technical Operations at Merck & Co., Inc., supporting the commercial manufacture of life-saving medicines at the Elkton, Virginia pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. She received her PhD in 2003 in the lab of Dr. Gregory Reinhart studying the allosteric regulation of phosphofructokinase through the use strategically placed amino acid… Read More →
Joel Oliver
Joel Oliver is a 4th year graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. John Mullet where he studies growth efficiency in plants using Sorghum bicolor as a model. His research and involvement has won him the “triple crown” of the departmental awards, taking the poster competition, the research competition, and graduate student teaching awards all… Read More →
Dr. Angela Domitrovich
Dr. Angela Domitrovich received her Ph.D. in 2002 in the lab of Dr. Gary Kunkel. Her postdoctoral research was at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus in the Department of Microbiology which was supported by an NIH fellowship and the Thorkildsen Research fellowship. During her time as a postdoctoral fellow her research focused on… Read More →
Sarah Hartman
Sarah Hartman is a 6th year graduate student in the lab of Dr. Jennifer Herman where she studies the roles of DNA-binding proteins in the subcellular organization of Bacillus subtilis. In the past, Sarah has served as Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) research chair and as the GPSC representative for the Biochemistry Graduate Association (BGA)…. Read More →
The First Awarding of Thomas L. Patterson Fellowship
The first awarding of the Thomas L. Patterson Graduate Fellowship in the President’s Office at Texas A&M University. Left to right: Dr. Jason Gill, Dr. Thomas Patterson, President Michael Young, Adriana Hernandez Morales, Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Dr. Ry Young, Vice Chancellor and Dean Dr. Patrick Stover. (Photo credit: Division of Marketing & Communications, Texas A&M… Read More →
Sreyashree Bose
Sreyashree Bose is a 5th year graduate student in the lab of Dr. Dorothy Shippen. She is responsible for characterizing a non canonical long non coding RNA in terms of its role in the regulation and maintenance of telomeres in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Additionally, Sreyashree serves as President of the Women In Science and… Read More →
Dr. Yulia Surovtseva
Dr. Yulia Surovtseva received her Ph.D. in 2007 in the lab of Dr. Dorothy Shippen. She credits BioBio and her Ph.D. mentor for her continued enthusiasm for academic research and her career successes. During her Ph.D. studies, Yulia was a recipient of several academic honors and awards including Women in Science Ethel Ashworth Tsutsui Award… Read More →