Congratulations to Dr. Shakun Karki!
Dr. Shakun Karki in Dr. Kostya Kandror’s laboratory successfully defended her PhD thesis: “Multi level action of fatty acids on adiponectin production by fat cells” Congratulations Shakun!
Archive for the ‘Seminars’ Category
Congratulations to Dr. Erica Walsh
Dr. Erica Walsh in Dr. Zhi-Xiong (Jim) Xiao’s laboratory successfully defended her PhD thesis: “Role of the MDM2 and Retinoblastoma protein pathway in cellular senescence and muscle differentiation” Congratulations Erica!
Congratulations to Johann Bergholz!
Congratulations to Johann Bergholz who won the poster completion in the category of pre-doctoral students at the Era of Hope Breast Cancer Conference in Orlando, FL from August 2-August 5. This conference is organized by the Office of Congressionally-Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), of the U.S. Department of Defense. The conference gathered over 1,600 people, and there were easily 1,000 posters. Congratulations Johann!
Congratulations to Dr. Bob Varelas!
Congratulations to Dr. Bob Varelas who recently received The Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship Award!
Congratulations to Dr. So, Ph.D.
Pauline So in Dr. Carmela Abraham’s laboratory successfully defended her PhD thesis “The Role of Amyloid Precursor Protein Dimerization in Amyloid Beta Peptide Production”
Congratulations Dr. So!
Congratulations to Dr. Turnbaugh, Ph.D.
Jessie Turnbaugh in Dr. David Harris’ laboratory successfully defended her PhD thesis last week at WASHU titled “Investigating the Role of the Prion Protein Polybasic Domain in Scrapie Formation and Neuroprotection”
Congratulations Dr. Turnbaugh!
Communicating with Hedgehogs: Signaling in Development and Disease
The Department of Biochemistry and the Evans Center in the Department of Medicine are sponsoring their second joint, thematic seminar series. The purpose of the series is to highlight a cutting edge topic in biology with disease relevance. The theme for the Spring joint seminar series is Stem Cells, Development, and Cancer. Each seminar will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Bakst Auditorium.
The third seminar in this series will be held on Thursday, April 28 and features Matthew Scott, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering, Stanford University and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The title of this presentation is Communicating with Hedgehogs: Signaling in Development and Disease.
High-grade Malignancy, the Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition, and Cancer Stem Cells
The Department of Biochemistry and the Evans Center in the Department of Medicine are sponsoring their second joint, thematic seminar series. The purpose of the series is to highlight a cutting edge topic in biology with disease relevance. The theme for the Spring joint seminar series is Stem Cells, Development, and Cancer. Each seminar will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Bakst Auditorium.
The second seminar in the series will be held on Thursday, April 7. The guest speaker will be Robert Weinberg, Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Whitehead Institute, MIT. The seminar is entitled High-grade Malignancy, the Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition, and Cancer Stem Cells.
The Microenvironment and the Genome in Breast Cancer: How Does Tissue Architecture Inform Therapy?
The Department of Biochemistry and the Evans Center in the Department of Medicine are sponsoring their second joint, thematic seminar series. The purpose of the series is to highlight a cutting edge topic in biology with disease relevance. The theme for the Spring joint seminar series is Stem Cells, Development, and Cancer. Each seminar will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Bakst Auditorium.
The first seminar to be held on Thursday, March 31 is a presentation by Mina Bissell, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory entitled The Microenvironment and the Genome in Breast Cancer: How Does Tissue Architecture Inform Therapy?
Dr. Carmela Abraham awarded grant from the Alzheimer’s Association
Dr. Carmela Abraham, Professor of Biochemistry, was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association for her study entitled Modulators of APP Dimerization as Novel Therapeutics for Alzheimer’s Disease. The study uses an entirely innovative idea to prevent the formation of the toxic amyloid protein known to kill neurons and synapses in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients.
Dr. Abraham has been invited to speak at two conferences in March. In Barcelona, Spain, she will speak at the 10th International Congress on Alzheimer and Parkinson Disease on Klotho Enhancers as Novel Neuroprotective Therapeutics for Alzheimer’s Disease and White Matter Degeneration. In St. Louis, at the American Society for Neurochemistry, she will present on The Anti-Aging Protein Klotho Affects Oligodendrocyte Differentiation.
