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Andria Denmon is interviewed by Rice media regarding her upcoming participation in the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting. (Link)
Jun 17, 2009
The Rice University graduate students will be among a select group to attend this year's Nobel Laureate Meetings at Lindau, Germany, June 28-July 3. The annual event, in its 59th year, brings 600 young researchers from around the world to hear from top scientists who've made breakthroughs in their respective fields.
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Kathy Matthews is honored for meritorious service to Rice. (Link)
May 5, 2009
Teveia Rose Barnes ’75, Kathleen S. Matthews, Jeffery O. Rose ’77, and Richard J. Stoll were honored at the Association of Rice Alumni 2009 Laureates Dinner at the Omni Houston Hotel May 9.
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Yousif Shamoo is awarded the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. (Link)
May 4, 2009
The George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching honors six of Rice�s top professors each year. The recipients are determined by the votes of alumni who graduated two and five years ago.
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Regulation of the human mitochondrial chaperon mtHsp70 by the Hsp70 escort protein Hep.
Apr 7, 2009
BCB graduate student Peng Zhai received a travel award to present a poster in the Molecular Chaperones poster session; Abstract Number 3113, ASBMB Experimental Biology 2009 Conference, New Orleans, LA.
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David Ouyang and Thomas Segall-Shapiro, BCB undergraduate researchers in the Silberg Lab, have been awarded 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. (Link)
Apr 1, 2009
David Ouyang (TX) and Thomas Segall-Shapiro (MD) are listed as recipients of the
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A Novel Role for MAPKAPK2 in Morphogenesis during Zebrafish Development. (Link)
Mar 31, 2009
Beth A. Holloway, Sol Gomez de la Torre Canny, Ying Ye, Diane C. Slusarski, Christina M. Freisinger, Roland Dosch, Margaret M. Chou, Daniel S. Wagner, Mary C. Mullins. PLoS Genet 5(3).
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Green Pharmaceutical Production (Link)
Mar 31, 2009
The George Bennett Lab is featured in an article on their collaboration with Ka-Yiu San in BioE to develop green pharmaceuticals.
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Matt Pena is featured in a story on students benefiting from Houston Rodeo scholarships. (Link)
Mar 10, 2009
Matt Pena from the Shamoo Lab is featured in a news clip from KPRC about rodeo scholarship awards.
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Marta Bjornson, an undergraduate in the Bartel Lab, was recognized for the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation at the 2009 Southern Section Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists.
Mar 2, 2009
Marta Bjornson was recognized for the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation at the 2009 annual meeting of the Southern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists, held February 28 through March 2 in Austin, Texas.
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Rice University signs deal to commercialize succinic acid. (Link)
Feb 28, 2009
The technology for efficiently producing biobased succinic acid was developed and patented by Rice University Biochemistry and Cell Biology professor George Bennett and Bioengineering professor Ka-Yiu San.
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Peroxisome-associated matrix protein degradation in Arabidopsis. (Link)
Feb 25, 2009
Lingard MJ, Monroe-Augustus M, Bartel B. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print]
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Tao lab determines structure of the Penicillium stoloniferum virus F capsid. (Link)
Feb 19, 2009
Junhua Pan, Li Lin, Liping Dong, Max Nibert, Timothy Baker, Wendy Ochoa, Robert Sinkovits, Said Ghabrial, Wendy Havens, and Jane Tao.
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G2 acquisition by transcription-independent mechanism at the zebrafish midblastula transition. (Link)
Feb 1, 2009
Dalle Nogare DE, Pauerstein PT, Lane ME. Dev Biol. 2009 Feb 1;326(1):131-42.
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Fluorescence detection of a protein-bound 2Fe2S cluster. (Link)
Jan 30, 2009
Hoff KG, Goodlitt R, Li R, Smolke CD, Silberg JJ. Chembiochem. 2009 Mar 2;10(4):667-70.
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Zebrafish could help humans regrow muscle (Link)
Jan 16, 2009
Mary Ellen Lane is quoted in an article on tissue regeneration research in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) model organism.
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Thigmomorphogenesis: a complex plant response to mechano-stimulation. (Link)
Jan 11, 2009
Chehab EW, Eich E, Braam J. J Exp Bot. 2009;60(1):43-56. Epub 2008 Dec 16.
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Arabidopsis iba response5 suppressors separate responses to various hormones. (Link)
Dec 31, 2008
Strader LC, Monroe-Augustus M, Rogers KC, Lin GL, Bartel B. Genetics. 2008 Dec;180(4):2019-31. Epub 2008 Oct 1.
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Rice University, Roquette Fréres sign deal for bio-based succinic acid.
Dec 18, 2008
George Bennett, the E.D. Butcher Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Ka-Yiu San of Bioengineering.
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Rice University, Roquette Fréres sign deal for bio-based succinic acid. (Link)
Dec 18, 2008
George Bennett, the E.D. Butcher Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, and Ka-Yiu San of Bioengineering bring "green" chemicals closer to market.
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"Proteins at the edge: How protein activity and stability correlate to fitness": Keck ARC People's Choice Poster Award Winner.
Dec 12, 2008
Peña M.I., Couñago R., Shamoo Y.
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A PI3-Kinase–Mediated Negative Feedback Regulates Neuronal Excitability. (Link)
Dec 8, 2008
Howlett E, Lin CC-J, Lavery W, Stern M. PLoS Genet 4(11): e1000277. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000277.
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Research by BCB graduate student Eric Howlett finds possible clues to epilepsy and autism. (Link)
Dec 8, 2008
Howlett and his colleagues, graduate student Curtis Chun-Jen Lin, research technician William Lavery and Michael Stern, a BCB professor, discovered that a mutation in a glutamate receptor gene common to both the fruit fly and humans has the ability to disrupt PI3K regulation of neuron excitability.
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Janet Braam is awarded Rice University's Shell Center for Sustainability funds for a collaborative project. (Link)
Dec 5, 2008
Janet Braam is leading a collaborative, interdisciplinary research team involving three natural science departments, BCB, EEB and Earth Science, in the investigation of "Genetic and Environmental Impacts on Lignin Accumulation".
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Peter Nguyen and Joff Silberg are interviewed about the gold-medal winning 2008 Rice undergraduate iGEM project, Biobeer. (Link)
Dec 2, 2008
The 2008 Rice iGEM team won a gold medal and
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Functional and Structural Studies of tRNA-mRNA Leader Interactions in tRNA-Mediated Transcriptional Regulation.
Dec 1, 2008
Andria P. Denmon and Edward P. Nikonowicz. Abstracts of the ABRCMS 2008 Meeting, Orlando, FL.
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Rice BCB graduate, astronaut Peggy Whitson, speaks during Centennial Celebration. (Link)
Nov 11, 2008
Whitson journeys the stuff of legend.
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Characterization of Arabidopsis peroxins acting in matrix protein import.
Oct 10, 2008
Naxhiely Martinez, Andrew Woodward, and Bonnie Bartel. Oral Abstracts, SACNAS 2008 Conference. Salt Lake City, UT.
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The apolar channel in cerebratulus lacteus hemoglobin is the route for O2 entry and exit. (Link)
Oct 7, 2008
Salter MD, Nienhaus K, Nienhaus GU, Dewilde S, Moens L, Pesce A, Nardini M, Bolognesi M, Olson JS. J Biol Chem. 2008 Oct 7. [Epub ahead of print]
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Munc18a Scaffolds SNARE Assembly to Promote Membrane Fusion. (Link)
Oct 1, 2008
Rodkey TL, Liu S, Barry M, McNew JA. Mol Biol Cell. 2008 Oct 1. [Epub ahead of print]
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BCB Departmental Retreat scheduled for October 13 - 14, 2008. (Link)
Sep 2, 2008
The retreat will be at Camp Allen in Navasota, TX. All BCB faculty and graduate students should plan to attend.
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Identification and characterization of Arabidopsis indole-3-butyric acid response mutants defective in novel peroxisomal enzymes. (Link)
Sep 1, 2008
Bethany K. Zolman, Naxhiely Martinez, Arthur Millius, A. Raquel Adham and Bonnie Bartel. Genetics. 2008 Sep;180(1):237-51.
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SNARE Effector Proteins. (Link)
Sep 1, 2008
Rodkey, T.L., and McNew, J.A. (2008). SNARE Proteins. Landes Bioscience: Austin, TX.
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Innate Immunity Signaling: Cytosolic Ca2+ Elevation Is Linked to Downstream Nitric Oxide Generation through the Action of Calmodulin or a Calmodulin-Like Protein. (Link)
Aug 21, 2008
Wei Ma , Andries Smigel , Yu-Chang Tsai , Janet Braam , and Gerald A. Berkowitz. Plant Physiology Preview. August 8, 2008; 10.1104/pp.108.125104.
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Enhancing stability and expression of recombinant human hemoglobin in E. coli: Progress in the development of a recombinant HBOC source. (Link)
Aug 20, 2008
Graves PE, Henderson DP, Horstman MJ, Solomon BJ, Olson JS. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 May 1. [Epub ahead of print]
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Mapping the domain structure of the influenza A virus polymerase acidic protein (PA) and its interaction with the basic protein 1 (PB1) subunit. (Link)
Aug 20, 2008
Guu TS, Dong L, Wittung-Stafshede P, Tao YJ. Virology. 2008 Sep 15;379(1):135-42. Epub 2008 Jul 26.
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The human escort protein Hep binds to the ATPase domain of mitochondrial Hsp70 and regulates ATP hydrolysis. (Link)
Aug 20, 2008
Peng Zhai, Crystal Stanworth, Shirley Liu, and Jonathan J. Silberg. J. Biol. Chem, doi:10.1074/jbc.M803475200.
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Rice lab finds molecular clues to Wilson disease. (Link)
Aug 19, 2008
Agustina Rodriguez-Granillo is the Rice doctoral student in biochemistry and cell biology who carried out the mathematical simulations and laboratory research.
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Scientists aim for green production of pharmaceuticals via cell engineering. (Link)
Aug 19, 2008
George Bennett, the E.D. Butcher Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, in collaboration with Ka-Yiu San in bioengineering, is developing a production process for pharmaceuticals.
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Carson appointed Dean of Natural Sciences. (Link)
Aug 18, 2008
Dan Carson, currently the Trustees Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware, has been appointed dean of Rice University's Wiess School of Natural Sciences.
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Farach-Carson named associate vice provost for research. (Link)
Aug 17, 2008
Mary C. Farach-Carson will become Rice's first associate vice provost for research next year. She will conduct research at Rice as a professor of biochemistry and cell biology. Her faculty appointment will be split 50-50 with her administrative position.
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BCB alumna, astronaut Peggy Whitson, says study of space 'needs to be a global pursuit'. (Link)
Aug 14, 2008
Peggy Whitson has spent 377 days in space, the most for any U.S. astronaut. She's also performed six career spacewalks, totaling nearly 40 hours, the most for any woman. She served as commander for the International Space Station's Expedition 16, launching on Oct. 10, 2007, and returning on April 19.
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Syntaxin 3b is a t-SNARE specific for ribbon synapses of the retina. (Link)
Aug 5, 2008
Curtis, L.B., Doneske, B., Liu, X., Thaller, C., McNew, J.A., and Janz, R. (2008). J Comp Neurol 510, 550-559.
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Recent BCB graduate awarded place in prestigious program. (Link)
Jul 11, 2008
Belgard adds scholarship accolades to already impressive portfolio.
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Christine Bohne spends the summer in Lesotho with Owls Beyond Borders. (Link)
Jul 8, 2008
Christine Bohne is a rising sophomore double majoring in Cell Biology and Anthropology.
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June Liu is a BCB student who participated in Owls Beyond Borders during the summer 2008 break. (Link)
Jul 8, 2008
June is an international health enthusiast who is studying Biochemistry and Policy Studies. She spent the summer in Lesotho with Owls Beyond Borders.
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Zebrafish Wee1 is Required for Post-Blastoderm Cell Division.
Jun 29, 2008
Shivas Amin, Damian Dalle Nogare, Ravi Munjaal and Mary Ellen Lane. Poster Presentation for the 8th International Meeting on Zebrafish Development & Genetics. U. Wisconsin, Jun 25 - Jun 29, 2008.
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CRC's first brick laid. (Link)
Jun 27, 2008
The deans of Natural Sciences and Engineering laid the first brick for the Collaborative Research Center Thursday.
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Kate Beckingham, George Bennett, and Yousif Shamoo receive Faculty Initiative Fund Awards. (Link)
Jun 12, 2008
Thirteen Faculty Initiatives Fund proposals awarded grants.
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Erin Beisner, undergraduate researcher in the Bartel Lab, wins grant from the American Society of Plant Biologists. (Link)
May 23, 2008
Jones College junior Erin Beisner has won a summer undergraduate research fellowship grant from the American Society of Plant Biologists.
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Graduate students Faiza Hussain, Mallory Salter and Peter Nguyen win awards at the UTMB Structural Biology Symposium.
May 19, 2008
BCB graduate students won three of the four poster presentation awards given out May 17, 2008 at the 13th annual UTMB Sealy Center Structural Biology Symposium in Galveston.
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BCB alumna honored for distinguished achievements. (Link)
May 15, 2008
Barbara Boyan is one of four Rice University graduates that have been selected to receive the Association of Rice Alumni¿s annual Distinguished Alumni Award, presented to alumni whose professional or volunteer activities reflect and forward the high standards and ideals of the university.
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yuri gagarin is required for actin, tubulin and basal body functions in Drosophila spermatogenesis. (Link)
May 13, 2008
Michael J. Texada, Rebecca A. Simonette, Cassidy B. Johnson, William J. Deery and Kathleen M. Beckingham.
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Mike Gustin was one of six selected for the 2008 George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching. (Link)
May 8, 2008
The George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching honors six of Rice¿s top professors each year. The recipients are determined by the votes of alumni who graduated two and five years ago. Below are this year¿s recipients and their responses to questions about teaching.
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Thermostability promotes the cooperative function of split adenylate kinases. (Link)
May 8, 2008
Peter Q. Nguyen, Shirley Liu, Jeremy C. Thompson and Jonathan J. Silberg.
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George Bennett, Jane Tao and Jonathan Silberg receive 2008 Hamill Innovation awards. (Link)
May 1, 2008
The Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering (IBB) has awarded Hamill Innovation Grants to five new cross-disciplinary collaborative research projects by Rice faculty.
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Regulation of SNARE-Mediated Membrane Fusion during Exocytosis. (Link)
May 1, 2008
James A. McNew.
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Students launch new undergrad research magazine, Catalyst. (Link)
May 1, 2008
A new student-produced magazine called Catalyst: Rice Undergraduate Science Review, which debuted last week, is dedicated to highlighting the undergraduate research experience at Rice.
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Automated data integration for developmental biological research. (Link)
Apr 30, 2008
Weiwei Zhong and Paul W. Sternberg.
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Lens-derived Semaphorin3A regulates sensory innervation of the cornea. (Link)
Apr 30, 2008
Peter Y. Lwigale and Marianne Bronner-Fraser.
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The Circadian Clock Regulates Auxin Signaling and Responses in Arabidopsis. (Link)
Apr 30, 2008
Michael F. Covington, Stacey L. Harmer.
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Trinorlupeol: A Major Nonsterol Triterpenoid in Arabidopsis. (Link)
Apr 15, 2008
Hui Shan, William K. Wilson, Dereth R. Phillips, Bonnie Bartel, and Seiichi P. T. Matsuda.
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Role of cations in stability of acidic protein Desulfovibrio desulfuricans apoflavodoxin. (Link)
Mar 12, 2008
Erik Sedlák, Loren Stagg and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Article in press, accepted manuscript.
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Serum amyloid P inhibits dermal wound healing. (Link)
Mar 4, 2008
Bindi Naik-Mathuria, MD, Darrell Pilling, PhD., Jeff R. Crawford, BS, JD, Andre N. Gay, BS, C. Wayne Smith, MD, Richard H. Gomer, PhD, Oluyinka O. Olutoye, MB, ChB, PhD.
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Ligand-induced Conformational Changes and Conformational Dynamics in the Solution Structure of the Lactose Repressor Protein. (Link)
Feb 15, 2008
Marc Taraban, Hongli Zhan, Andrew E. Whitten, David B. Langley, Kathleen S. Matthews, Liskin Swint-Kruse, and Jill Trewhella.
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Structure and Dynamics of Cu(I) Binding in Copper Chaperones Atox1 and CopZ: A Computer Simulation Study. (Link)
Feb 6, 2008
Agustina Rodriguez-Granillo and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede.
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Yousif Shamoo has been tapped to direct Rice's Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering. (Link)
Feb 1, 2008
Shamoo will replace outgoing IBB director Jennifer West July 1.
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Team-Teaching a Current Events-based Biology Course. (Link)
Jan 23, 2008
Sarah E. Bondos and Dereth Phillips. BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY EDUCATION, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 22-27, 2008.
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Arabidopsis Potential Calcium Sensors Regulate Nitric Oxide Levels and the Transition to Flowering. (Link)
Dec 31, 2007
Yu-Chang Tsai, Nikkí A. Delk, Naweed I. Chowdhury and Janet Braam. Plant Signaling & Behavior 2(6):446-454 (2008).
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Zebrafish cdc25a is expressed during early development and limiting for post-blastoderm cell cycle progression. (Link)
Dec 20, 2007
Damian E. Dalle Nogare, Andrea Arguello, Shelley Sazer, and Mary Ellen Lane.
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An adaptive mutation in adenylate kinase that increases organismal fitness is linked to stability/activity trade-offs. (Link)
Dec 19, 2007
Rafael Couñago, Corey J. Wilson, Matthew I. Peña, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede and Yousif Shamoo.
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Transmembrane domains of the syndecan family of growth factor coreceptors display a hierarchy of homotypic and heterotypic interactions. (Link)
Dec 19, 2007
Ian C. Dews and Kevin R. MacKenzie.
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The CTA4 Transcription Factor Mediates Induction of Nitrosative Stress Response in Candida albicans. (Link)
Dec 14, 2007
Wiriya Chiranand, Ian McLeod, Huaijin Zhou, Jed J. Lynn, Luis A. Vega, Hadley Myers, John R. Yates III, Michael C. Lorenz, and Michael C. Gustin.
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Carbon nanotube imaging in Drosophila featured in video on Science Sensei. (Link)
Dec 5, 2007
Carbon nanotube imaging collaboration between the Beckingham and Weisman Labs featured on video.
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In Vitro Fusion Catalyzed by the Sporulation-Specific t-SNARE Light-Chain Spo20p is Stimulated by Phosphatidic Acid. (Link)
Nov 30, 2007
Song Liu, Kirilee A. Wilson, Travis Rice-Stitt, Aaron M. Neiman, James A. McNew.
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Molecular crowding enhances native structure and stability of alpha/beta protein flavodoxin. (Link)
Nov 27, 2007
Loren Stagg, Shao-Qing Zhang, Margaret S. Cheung, and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede. PNAS. November 27, 2007. Vol. 104, No. 48:18976-18981.
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Proteins pack tighter in crowded native state. (Link)
Nov 14, 2007
Rice biochemist Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, in collaboration with University of Houston (UH) physicist Margaret Cheung, published a study slated to appear in the Nov. 27 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.
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Arabidopsis Camelliol C Synthase Evolved from Enzymes That Make Pentacycles. (Link)
Nov 7, 2007
Mariya D. Kolesnikova, William K. Wilson, David A. Lynch, Allie C. Obermeyer, and Seiichi P. T. Matsuda.
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Rice Chicago Alumni Faculty Lecture and Reception with Michael Gustin. (Link)
Nov 7, 2007
Rice Chicago Alumni Faculty Lecture and Reception with Michael Gustin.
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Scientists Pave Way for Detection and Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes Inside Organisms. (Link)
Nov 7, 2007
Scientists Pave Way for Detection and Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes Inside Organisms.
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Role of copper in folding and stability of cupredoxin-like copper-carrier protein CopC. (Link)
Nov 1, 2007
Faiza Hussain, Erik Sedlaka and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Volume 467, Issue 1, 1 November 2007, Pages 58-66.
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Female commanders embrace the moment. (Link)
Oct 26, 2007
Female commanders embrace the moment.
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BCB faculty member Bonnie Bartel elected AAAS fellow. (Link)
Oct 25, 2007
BCB faculty member Bonnie Bartel elected AAAS fellow.
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BCB alumna Peggy Whitson named first woman to command space station. (Link)
Oct 24, 2007
BCB alumna Peggy Whitson named first woman to command space station. Houston Chronicle article can be found for the time being at (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/4992718.html.)
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Richard Gomer to speak on blood proteins for Dean's Lecture Series. (Link)
Oct 24, 2007
Richard Gomer to speak on blood proteins for Dean's Lecture Series.
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Students use designer virus to attack bacterial drug resistance. (Link)
Oct 4, 2007
Students use designer virus to attack bacterial drug resistance.
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Impact of cofactor on stability of bacterial (CopZ) and human (Atox1) copper chaperones. (Link)
Oct 1, 2007
Faiza Hussain and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2007 Oct;1774(10):1316-22. Epub 2007 Aug 19.
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Scientists get first look at nanotubes inside living animals. (Link)
Sep 20, 2007
Camera captures fluorescent glow from tiny carbon tubes in fruit flies.
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A zebrafish LMO4 ortholog limits the size of the forebrain and eyes through negative regulation of six3b and rx3. (Link)
Aug 23, 2007
Catherine W. McCollum, Shivas R. Amin, Philip Pauersteina and Mary Ellen Lane.
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Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in the Intact Organism: Near-IR Imaging and Biocompatibility Studies in Drosophila (Link)
Aug 16, 2007
Tonya K. Leeuw, R. Michelle Reith, Rebecca A. Simonette, Mallory E. Harden, Paul Cherukuri, Dmitri A. Tsyboulski, Kathleen M. Beckingham, and R. Bruce Weisman
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Copper Enzyme Must Preload. (Link)
Aug 13, 2007
In the Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede lab, a study of a copper enzyme that misfolds and malfunctions in copper- and iron-metabolism diseases indicates that it can't be fixed simply by inducing the copper-deficient misfolded version to take up more copper.
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Biology major Sophie Kim is one of several Rice undergraduates to participate in international summer internships in Africa. (Link)
Aug 7, 2007
Biology major Sophie Kim is one of several Rice undergraduates to participate in international summer internships in Africa.
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The Mike Gustin Lab and the Richard Gomer Lab hosted undergraduates from Tulane and University of Virginia participating in the HHMI summer program. (Link)
Aug 2, 2007
The Mike Gustin Lab and the Richard Gomer Lab hosted undergraduates from Tulane and University of Virginia participating in the HHMI summer program.
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Zebrafish research points way to answers about human development. (Link)
Jul 26, 2007
Zebrafish research points way to answers about human development. An additional ABC News interview can be found for the time being at the following URL: (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3432823&page=1)
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BCB faculty Beckingham, Braam, Lane and Wagner receive Hamill Innovations Awards. (Link)
Jul 25, 2007
BCB faculty Beckingham, Braam, Lane and Wagner receive Hamill Innovations Awards.
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Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering's third annual symposium (Link)
Jul 11, 2007
IBB Medical Innovations Award winners include BCB's Graham Palmer, professor of biochemistry and cell biology; and Mary Ellen Lane, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology.
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Individual And Cummulative Effects Of Sequential Base Modifications In E. coli ACSL-phe
Jun 8, 2007
Izabela Tworowska and Edward P. Nikonowicz, Gordon Research Conference (NUCLEIC ACIDS), June 3-8, 2007, Salve Regina University
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Damian Dalle Nogare and Celine Santiago received awards at the 4th Texas and Southern Plains Zebrafish Conference at College Station.
Jun 3, 2007
Damian Dalle Nogare of the Lane lab was recognized for his work, "Phosphoinhibition of cdk1 underlies cell cycle lengthening at the zerafish midblastula transition" with 2nd Place for Best Presentation. Celine Santiago of the Wagner lab was awarded Best Undergraduate Poster for her presentation " The Development of an Apoptosis Assay in Zebrafish Embryos ".
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NMR studies of the H/ACA box guide RNA from Euglena
Jun 3, 2007
Presentation on the 12th Annual RNA Society Meeting, Madison-Wisconsin, WI,
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Mary Ellen Lane, Joff Silberg and Dan Wagner receive Faculty Initiatives Fund awards from Rice. (Link)
May 25, 2007
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Models predicting optimized strategies for protein evolution. (Link)
May 24, 2007
J. J. Silberg and P. Q. Nguyen, The Metabolic Pathway Engineering Handbook, C. Schmidt-Dannert and C. D. Smolke, Eds., in press (2006).
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BCB's Mike Gustin is the recipient of the most prestigious teaching prize at Rice University. (Link)
May 10, 2007
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Seiichi Matsuda is one of six Rice Professors honored with the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching. (Link)
May 10, 2007
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Folding and assembly of co-chaperonin heptamer probed by forster resonance energy transfer. (Link)
May 7, 2007
Michael Perham and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2007 May 7; [Epub ahead of print]
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Michael Perham receives Chemistry Department award for outstanding research performed in the Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede lab. (Link)
May 5, 2007
Michael Perham in the Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede lab received the Chemistry Department's Harry B. Weiser Research Award, conferred to recognize graduate students for outstanding research.
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Troy Hammerstrom works in the Ed Nikonowicz lab as part of the GCC's biodefense training program. (Link)
May 4, 2007
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IBR3, a novel peroxisomal acyl-CoA dehydrogenase-like protein required for indole-3-butyric acid response. (Link)
May 1, 2007
Zolman BK, Nyberg M, Bartel B. Plant Mol Biol. 2007 May; 64(1-2):59-72.
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The structure of a birnavirus polymerase reveals a distinct active site topology. (Link)
May 1, 2007
Junhua Pan, Vikram N. Vakharia, and Yizhi Jane Tao. PNAS, May 1, 2007, vol. 104, no. 18, 7385-7390.
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Transient ligand docking sites in Cerebratulus lacteus mini-hemoglobin. (Link)
Apr 29, 2007
Pengchi Deng, Karin Nienhaus, Pasquale Palladino, John S. Olson, George Blouin, Luc Moens, Sylvia Dewilde, Eva Geuens and G. Ulrich Nienhaus. Gene. Available online 29 April 2007.
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Mutation of E1-CONJUGATING ENZYME-RELATED1 Decreases RUB Conjugation and Alters Auxin Response and Development. (Link)
Apr 20, 2007
Woodward AW, Ratzel SE, Woodward EE, Shamoo Y, Bartel B. Plant Physiol. 2007 Apr 20; [Epub ahead of print].
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Arabidopsis thaliana SQUALENE EPOXIDASE 1 is essential for root and seed development. (Link)
Apr 10, 2007
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Jane Tao recipient of China's "You Bring Charm to the World" award, presented at Peking University Hall. (Link)
Apr 2, 2007
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Douglas Mata's work in the Jane Tao lab is featured on the undergraduate research web site. (Link)
Apr 1, 2007
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Rice biochemist Jane Tao nominated for one of China's most prestigious annual Top 10 lists of the world's most influential Chinese people. (Link)
Mar 29, 2007
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Houston Chronicle Article: Scientists' lunch chat may change treatment for fibrosis. (Link)
Feb 22, 2007
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Jane Tao was recently interviewed on the Science and Society web site regarding her research in the field of influenza A viruses. (Link)
Feb 22, 2007
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Chance Meeting Could Result in Fibroid Treatment (Link)
Feb 6, 2007
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Rice biochemist Richard Gomer and Rice immunologist Darrell Pilling discuss their research on a naturally occurring protein in human blood called serum amyloid P, or SAP. (Link)
Feb 2, 2007
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Rice Biochemistry & Cell Biology undergraduates selected as delegates for Innovate 2007.
Feb 1, 2007
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The Mike Stern lab seeks to find the biochemical pathway that's responsible for tumors in the genetic disorder neurofibromatosis. (Link)
Feb 1, 2007
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Rice breakthrough could prevent multiple fibrotic diseases. (Link)
Jan 18, 2007
Tests find protein stops formation of life-threatening scar tissue.
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Tracing the pathways of neurofibromatosis. (Link)
Jan 18, 2007
Rice biochemists find genetic flaw starts biochemical domino effect.
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Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase and Akt Nonautonomously Promote Perineurial Glial Growth in Drosophila Peripheral Nerves (Link)
Jan 10, 2007
William Lavery, Veronica Hall, James C. Yager, Alex Rottgers, Michelle C. Wells, and Michael Stern. The Journal of Neuroscience, January 10, 2007, 27(2):279-288.
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Douglas Mata discusses his experience studying viral structures in the Tao lab. (Link)
Jan 2, 2007
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The lactose repressor system: paradigms for regulation, allosteric behavior and protein folding. (Link)
Jan 1, 2007
C. J. Wilson, H. Zhan, L. Swint-Kruse and K. S. Matthews. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 64 (2007) 3¿16.
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Protein's tail may be flu virus's Achilles heel. (Link)
Dec 7, 2006
Rice, UT find common weakness in strains of human, swine, bird flu.
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Finding may be tool in flu fight. (Link)
Dec 6, 2006
Scientists at Rice and UT discover promising target for class of drugs.
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The mechanism by which influenza A virus nucleoprotein forms oligomers and binds RNA. (Link)
Dec 6, 2006
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Base Pairing within the Psi-32,Psi-39-Modified Anticodon Arm of Escherichia coli tRNA-Phe. (Link)
Nov 15, 2006
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Biochemistry undergrad discusses research and student travel. (Link)
Nov 1, 2006
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Biochemical Fates of {alpha} Hemoglobin Bound to {alpha} Hemoglobin-stabilizing Protein AHSP. (Link)
Oct 27, 2006
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Kinetic folding and assembly mechanisms differ for two homologous heptamers. (Link)
Oct 27, 2006
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An Arabidopsis basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper protein modulates metal homeostasis and auxin conjugate responsiveness. (Link)
Oct 8, 2006
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Complex of Calmodulin with a Ryanodine Receptor Target Reveals a Novel, Flexible Binding Mode (Link)
Oct 1, 2006
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DNA binding to protein-gold nanocrystal conjugates. (Link)
Oct 1, 2006
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Sequence Dependence of BNIP3 Transmembrane Domain Dimerization Implicates Side-chain Hydrogen Bonding and a Tandem GxxxG Motif in Specific Helix-Helix Interactions. (Link)
Sep 29, 2006
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Increasing the stability of recombinant human hemoglobin by comparative design. (Link)
Sep 17, 2006
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A new study on protein-folding combines advanced computational modeling and cutting-edge experiments (Link)
Sep 14, 2006
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Protein-RNA interactions: exploring binding patterns with a three-dimensional superposition analysis of high resolution structures. (Link)
Sep 11, 2006
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Rice biochemist John Olson is the winner of this year's Emily M. Gray Award from the Biophysical Society. (Rice Media article 9/07/06). (Link)
Sep 7, 2006
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A 60-kilodalton protein component of the counting factor complex regulates group size in Dictyostelium discoideum. (Link)
Sep 1, 2006
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A dicistronic gene pair within a cluster of EF-hand protein genes in the genomes of Drosophila species (Link)
Sep 1, 2006
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Androcam is a tissue-specific light chain for myosin VI in the Drosophila testis. (Link)
Aug 25, 2006
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Molecular cloning and characterization of the alcohol dehydrogenase ADH1 gene of Candida utilis ATCC 9950. (Link)
Jul 20, 2006
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Developmental expression patterns of Arabidopsis XTH genes reported by transgenes and Genevestigator. (Link)
Jun 1, 2006
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