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Sequence and expression of the zebrafish alpha-actinin gene family reveals conservation and diversification among vertebrates.
Sep 24, 2009
Christopher K. Holterhoff, Rebecca H. Saunders, Erika E. Brito and Daniel S. Wagner. Developmental Dynamics, in press.
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The Role of Alpha-Hemoglobin Stabilizing Protein in Redox Chemistry, Denaturation, and Hemoglobin Assembly. (Link)
Sep 24, 2009
Mollan T, Yu X, Weiss MJ, Olson JS.
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Tetramer opening in LacI-mediated DNA looping. (Link)
Sep 21, 2009
Danielis Rutkauskas, Hongli Zhan, Kathleen S. Matthews, Francesco S. Pavone, and Francesco Vanzia. PNAS online. September 21, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0904617106.
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Yousif Shamoo is awarded a grant from the NIAID to use molecular evolution to study antibiotic resistance. (Link)
Sep 21, 2009
The four-year study will follow two common pathogens, E. coli and E. faecalis, as they adapt to become antibiotic-resistant.
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Homotypic fusion of ER membranes requires the dynamin-like GTPase Atlastin. (Link)
Jul 30, 2009
Orso G, Pendin D, Liu S, Tosetto J, Moss TJ, Faust JE, Micaroni M, Egorova A, Martinuzzi A, McNew JA, Daga A. Nature. 2009 Jul 26. [Epub ahead of print]
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Tom Guu in the Tao Lab has created an atomic resolution model of the HEV capsid. (Link)
Jul 24, 2009
Researchers at Rice University and their international colleagues have for the first time described the atomic structure of the protein shell that carries the genetic code of hepatitis E (HEV).
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Structure of the hepatitis E virus-like particle suggests mechanisms for virus assembly and receptor binding. (Link)
Jul 21, 2009
Tom S. Y. Guu, Zheng Liub, Qiaozhen Ye, Douglas A. Mata, Kunpeng Lic, Changcheng Yin, Jingqiang Zhang, and Yizhi Jane Tao.
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BCB alumna Erica Ollmann Saphire (Matthews Lab) wins a Presidential Early Career Award. (Link)
Jul 17, 2009
A biology and biochemistry double-major, Erica Ollmann Saphire was an undergraduate researcher in Kathy Matthew's Lab and is now an associate professor at the Scripps Research Institute.
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Joff Silberg and Mike Covington receive Rice Faculty Initiative Fund awards. (Link)
Jul 15, 2009
Joff's project involves engineering light-triggered bionanoparticles for cellular reprogramming, and Mike's project studies seed-to-seed chemical signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana.
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Andria Denmon of the Nikonowicz Lab attended the 2009 Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau. (Link)
Jul 4, 2009
After a multi-stage international selection procedure, Andria Denmon was selected to participate as a young researcher in the 2009 Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau, Germany.
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Conformational Dynamics of Metal-Binding Domains in Wilson Disease Protein: Molecular Insights into Selective Copper Transfer. (Link)
Jun 30, 2009
Agustina Rodriguez-Granillo, Alejandro Crespo and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede.
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Pseudosymmetry, high copy number and twinning complicate the structure determination of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (ATCC 29577) flavodoxin. (Link)
Jun 30, 2009
M. Guelker, L. Stagg, P. Wittung-Stafshede and Y. Shamoo.
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Peter Nguyen is awarded a Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship by the Office of Graduate Studies.
Jun 19, 2009
The Rice Graduate Council selected Peter Nguyen for one of this year's special graduate fellowships for continuing students.
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Weiwei Zhong is awarded a 2009 Searle's Scholarship for exceptional young scientists. (Link)
Jun 19, 2009
The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who have recently begun their first appointment at the assistant professor level.
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Celine Santiago and Sol Gomez de la Torre Canny from the Wagner Lab win honors at the Texas and Southern Plains Regional Zebrafish Conference.
Jun 17, 2009
The 5th Biennial Texas and Southern Plains Regional Zebrafish Meeting June 5-7, 2009 - University of North Texas in Denton, TX
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High-resolution viral shell image produced by Jane Tao and Junhua Pan is featured on popsci.com. (Link)
Jun 12, 2009
Pan, Junhau and Tao, Yizhi Jane
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Analysis of human α globin gene mutations that impair binding to the α hemoglobin stabilizing protein. (Link)
Jun 4, 2009
Xiang Yu, Todd L. Mollan, Andrew Butler, Andrew J. Gow, John S. Olson, and Mitchell J. Weiss.
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Biochemistry and Cell Biology senior, Mary Mao, receives a trainee award from the American Society of Hematology for her summer research project.
Jun 2, 2009
The award will fund her summer internship in the Goodell Lab at BCM and will pay for her to attend the ASH meeting in December.
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Mike Covington, Joff Silberg and Laura Segatori were awarded 2009 IBB Hamill Innovation Grants. (Link)
May 28, 2009
The Hamill Award Grants program is funded by a grant from the Hamill Foundation, which has supported IBB since its founding in 1986. The 2009 Hamill Award winners will be formally recognized at the fifth annual IBB Symposium July 15.
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Flexibility in the Inducer Binding Region Is Crucial for Allostery in the Escherichia coli Lactose Repressor. (Link)
Apr 15, 2009
Jia Xu, Kathleen S. Matthews. Biochemistry 2009 48 (22), 4988-4998.
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The Drosophila Transcription Factor Ultrabithorax Self-Assembles into Protein-Based Biomaterials with Multiple Morphologies (Link)
Apr 13, 2009
Alexandra M. Greer, Zhao Huang, Ashley Oriakhi, Yang Lu, Jun Lou, Kathleen S. Matthews, Sarah E. Bondos Biomacromolecules 2009 10 (4), 829-837. Graduate student George Huang, working with advisors Sarah Bondos and Kathy Matthews, is second author on a new UBX paper.
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Increased Insulin/Insulin Growth Factor Signaling Advances the Onset of Metamorphosis in Drosophila. (Link)
Apr 7, 2009
Magdalena A. Walkiewicz, Michael Stern.
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