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 →
Keya Mukherjee-Outstanding Student Indeed!
Keya Mukherjee, one of our Biochemistry majors working in Dr. Frank Raushel’s lab, was recognized as an outstanding student at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Convocation through her participation in the Agricultural and Natural Resources Policy (ANRP) program. It’s through ANRP that she will be working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of… Read More →
Dr. Gohil Named 2017-2018 Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar
The Office of the Dean of Faculties and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) proudly announce this year’s Montague-CTE Scholar to Vishal Gohil, PhD. “I feel honored to receive the Montague-CTE Scholar Award. This award is very gratifying especially because I feel passionate about my teaching and it is good to know that my efforts… Read More →
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Dr. Hu presented with AFS College-Level Teaching Award
Dr. Hu was presented with Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award by Dr. Allan Sams and Mr. Marty Holmes who attended the Biochemistry and Biophysics department faculty meeting on September 4, 2017. Dr. Hu has been a member of the department for 25 years and has been very innovative in his teaching career by… Read More →
Two New Faces
Please help welcome our two new staff to the department. Tamara Torres will be assisting the Genetics Graduate Program with Dr. Carol Vargas and Lindsey Munyon will be assisting the Undergraduate Biochemistry and Genetics advisors, Vanetta Geiger and Khara Spears. Tamara is in room 109 and Lindsey is in room 104. Stop in and tell… Read More →
Qiuyan Shao named this year’s Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memoral Award Recipient in Research
Dr. Greg Reinhart and Dr. Lanying Zeng were please to hear that Ms. Qiuyan Shao was selected for this year’s Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research from the Department of Biochemistry and Biphysics. Qiuyan joined the department in 2011 and has made tremendous contributions to basic science already and we feel confident, she will continue… Read More →
Faculty Win
Friday, August 26, 2016 we welcomed our new incoming class of 20 graduate students with another friendly softball game and BBQ at Sue Haswell Park in Bryan, TX. The weather looked questionable but the faculty prevailed for yet another great win against the graduate students. The final score was 7 to 4 and the battle… 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 →
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 →