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Proposed structure of active and inactive CooA with detail of heme environment from the CooA crystal structure (image courtesy of J. Burstyn)
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Proposed structure of active and inactive CooA with detail of heme environment from the CooA crystal structure (image courtesy of J. Burstyn)



News
June 8, 2007
Congratulations to Ron Raines, Professor
of Biochemistry, and Biophysis Program
trainer, on receiving the
\"Makineni Lectureship\"
awarded by the American Peptide Society
in recognition of his work on synthetic
collagen.
May 2, 2007
Congratulations to M. Thomas Record.
Jr., Professor of Biochemistry and
Chemistry, and Biophysics Program
trainer, on being elected a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
January 30, 2007
Congratulations to recent graduates of
the Biophysics Program! Jonathan
Cannon, PhD (Record lab) Adam Van
Wynsberghe, PhD (Cui lab) Liya Wang,
PhD (Markley lab) Brandon Sondereger,
MS (Jackson lab)
October 23, 2006
Congratulations to Laura Kiessling,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
and Biophysics Program trainer, on
receiving the 2005 Harrison Howe Award
through the American Chemical Society.
The award is granted to an individual
without regard to nationality for
outstanding contributions to research in
chemistry defined in its broadest sense.
June 1, 2006
Congratulations to May Ph.D.
recipients Payne Chang (Biophysics,
Jackson lab) Steven Mansoorabadi
(Biochemistry/ Mol. Biophysics trainee,
Reed lab) Both Payne and Steven will
go on to postdoctoral positions at the
University of Texas at Austin

May 12
PhD Defense
Melissa Anderson Biophysics Program
Thermodynamics of DNA Oligomer Melting and Binding of the lac Repressor DNA Binding Domain to Operator DNA
B1118 Biochemistry - 8:30 am
December 14, 2007
PhD Defense
Gunes Bender, Biophysics Program
EPR Spectroscopic and Computational Studies on the Paramagnetic Intermediates in the Reaction of Ethanolamine Ammonia Lyase with Ethanolamine
272 Enzyme Institute - 2:30 pm
September 20, 2007
Physics Colloquim
Eugene Shakhnovich, Harvard Univ
Seminar "How Protein Physics Shapes Biological Evolution"
2241 Chamberlin Hall - 4:00 pm
June 6, 2007
PhD Defense
Paul Blommel Biophysics Program
Systematic Development and Evaluation of High Throughput Protein Production Pipeline Process Improvements
B1118 Biochemistry - 9:30 am


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