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Research Highlights
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Lichtarge and Kavraki Receive NSF Award
Olivier Lichtarge (BCM) and Lydia Kavraki (Rice) have received an NSF Grant to develop computational tools to discover functional sites in protein structures.
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Gulf Coast Consortia Awards First Discovery Project Pilot Grants, Will Fund Early-Stage Chemical Genomics Research in Area Labs
HOUSTON (Jan. 3, 2008)-The John S. Dunn Gulf Coast Consortium for Chemical Genomics (GCC CG) has awarded eight researchers in the Houston-Galveston area with its first Discovery Project Pilot Grants in recognition of their outstanding and innovative early-stage work in computational biology and chemistry, which is an increasingly essential step in more rapid drug discovery.
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Bioengineering Professor and GCC Faculty Member Wins $25K for Research
Antonios Mikos, a member of the GCC and Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training, won the second annual Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award for engineering on January 4, 2007. It was given during the annual meeting of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas in Austin.
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De Lange Conference on Frontiers of Medicine: Society, Pharmacology and Membrane Biology in the Genomic Era
The De Lange Conference on Frontiers of Medicine: Society, Pharmacology and Membrane Biology in the Genomic Era was held at Rice University on March 7-9, 2005. Visit http://delange.rice.edu to review the conference archive. With the sequencing of the human genome, tremendous opportunities and challenges face our society on how we can best use this information to advance our basic understanding of biology and improve medical care.
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GCCMB Fall Symposium 2004
2nd Annual Gulf Coast Consortium for Membrane Biology
Fall Symposium 2004
Saturday, November 20, 2004
8:45 AM ¿ 4:30 PM
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Second World Congress on Flexoelectric Theory
"Flexoelectric Theory and Experiments: Piezoelectricity in Membranes and OHCs" was held on December 4 and 5, 2003 in Houston, TX.
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GCC Membrane Biology Late Summer Retreat
September 13, 2003 - Battleship Texas. Over twenty members representing all six of the GCC Membrane Biology Consortium Member Institutions met on Saturday, September 13th to learn about each others' research in an informal retreat setting. A number of collaborations resulted from this event, which was a series of fourteen short presentations designed to inform attendees about the presenters'research and resources.
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Roles of multidrug efflux pumps in E.coli - Gulf Coast Consortia for Membrane Biology Summer Speaker Series
Lynn Zechiedrich, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine. Friday, August 22, 2003. 4:30 PM
It was thought that alterations in membrane permeability caused bacterial drug resistance. Howerver, it is now known that most drugs penetrate bacterial membranes, but are then pumped out again by multidrug transporters.
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Bridging Proteins in Lipid-Directed Phagocytosis - GCC Membrane Biology - Summer Lecture Series
Alan J. Schroit, Ph.D.
Professor, Cancer Biology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Friday, July 18, 2003. 4:30 p.m.
Many studies have established the unifying concept that plasma membrane phospholipids are asymmetrically distributed across membrane bilayers. The majority of the aminophospholipids reside in the cell¿s inner membrane leaflet and most of the choline-containing phospholipids are in the outer membrane leaflet. If cells fail to maintain this asymmetry, aminophospholipids appear at the cell surface and mark the cell for disposal. The lecture will focus on the role bridging proteins play in the recognition, binding and engulfment of aminophospholipid-expressing senescent and apoptotic cells by mononuclear phagocytes.
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Gulf Coast Consortia / Keck Center Recognized with Texas Star Award
HOUSTON, (Oct. 12, 2005) Four Houston-area institutions for higher learning, including the Gulf Coast Consortia / Keck Center, are among the six recipients of the prestigious Star Award given annually by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
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Gulf Coast Consortia Awards First Discovery Project Pilot Grants, Will Fund Early-Stage Chemical Genomics Research in Area Labs
HOUSTON (Jan. 3, 2008)-The John S. Dunn Gulf Coast Consortium for Chemical Genomics (GCC CG) has awarded eight researchers in the Houston-Galveston area with its first Discovery Project Pilot Grants in recognition of their outstanding and innovative early-stage work in computational biology and chemistry, which is an increasingly essential step in more rapid drug discovery.
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