BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAM
NIH MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAM

Associate professor of physiology Edwin R. Chapman looks at computer images in a physiology research lab with postdoctoral student Camin Dean. The images show a variety of synaptic proteins from cultured neurons.
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Voltage imaging highlights regions of a hippocampal slice in which synaptic efficacy was potentiated by bursts of electrical activity. (Image courtesy of the M. Jackson lab)
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Voltage imaging highlights regions of a hippocampal slice in which synaptic efficacy was potentiated by bursts of electrical activity. (Image courtesy of the M. Jackson lab)



News
May 29, 2009
Tom Record has been announced as winner
of the 2009 Hugh M. Huffman Award for
long term contributions in
thermodynamics involving thermochemistry
and calorimetry.
May 15, 2009
Spring PhD graduates include Arash
Bahrami, Yong Chang, and Enfu Hui.
Congratulations to each. Ms. Chang will
start a postdoc at Brown U. in the fall;
Arash and Enfu have postdoc appointments
at the UW.
April 3, 2009
Congratulations to Junseock Koh, August
PhD graduate in Biophysics from the
Record lab. Junseock has just accepted a
postdoc position at Rockefeller
University in the Blobel lab.
January 15, 2009
Congratulations to Yuanyuan Liu, January
PhD graduate in Biophysics (Mosher lab).
Yuanyuan will do a one year postdoc in
the Mosher lab extending the work she
did her thesis on.
October 15, 2008
Rebecca Turcotte completed the PhD
portion of her training in October
(Raines lab). As a MSTP student she
moves right back into the MD side of
training - we wish her well on the other
end of campus.

December 8
PhD Program Application Deadline
Applications due for admission into the PhD program for fall 2010. (see "How to Apply" for instructions)
November 20, 2009
Seminar
David Gadsby, Rockefeller University
Pumping Ions: from Cardiac Arrhythmias to Na,K-ATPase Structure
Biotechnology Auditorium - 4:00 pm
November 9, 2009
Seminar - Contemporary Biochemistry Series
James Bowie - UCLA
What Drives Membrane Protein Folding?
Ebling Symposium Center, MSB - 3:30 pm
August 25, 2009
Orientation for New Graduate Students
Information on getting started in the Biophysics Graduate Program
801 Bock Laboratories - 9:00 am


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