Departmental News

Welcome New Students

The Department of Biochemistry would like to welcome 3 PhD graduate students who are joining us from the PIBS program. Joey Orofino has joined the Perissi lab, Nathan Kingston has joined the Varelas lab, and Debbie Chang has joined the Zaia lab.

Congratulations Biochemistry Russek Winners

The Henry I Russek Award Nominating Committee and the Executive Committee certainly had a tough time choosing this year's winners as the competition was keen.  We want to start by thanking the nominating committee for their efforts; Dr. Costello, Dr. Farmer, Dr. Kandror, Dr. Pilch and Dr. Schreiber.  Importantly, we want to thank all of applicants for their contributions and we look forward to seeing their work displayed on Russek Day.  

 

Now for the Department of Biochemistry's winners of the Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day 2016; the third prize was awarded to Carly Cederquist, who is a student in Dr. Perissi's lab; the second prize was awarded to Kshitij Khatri, who is a student in Dr. Zaia's lab; the first prize was awarded to Aleks Szymaniak, who is a student in Dr. Varelas's lab .  Our congratulations go out to all of the winners as well as their advisors!  

 

So, we'll see you all on Friday, May 6th in Hiebert Lounge for Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day 2016.  For those of you who have never attended, this is a day devoted to our graduate students, with presentations from students throughout the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences.  For those of you who have attended before, you know what's in store, and for the newcomers, I assure you that you won't be disappointed as Dr. Russek and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences always plan a great day.  Thanks to the generous contributions of Dr. Russek and her family, the event promises to be a memorable one with the keynote address to be delivered by Dr. James Bradner, President of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.

Russek Student Achievement Day 2016

The Biochemistry Russek Student Achievement Day submission submission is now closed. For more info on Russek Day

Congratulations Biochemistry Russek Award Winners

Congratulations to the The Department of Biochemistry's winners of the Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day 2015.

The first prize goes to Samantha (Sami) Hiemer, who is a student in Dr. Varelas's lab, the second prize was awarded to Madelane Teran, who is a student in Dr. Nugent's lab and an honorable mention goes to Chendi Li.  Our congratulations go out to the winners as well as their advisors!

See you all on  Friday, May 1st in Hiebert Lounge for Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day 2015.

Congratulations to Larry Pessolano

Congratulations to Larry Pessolano in the Schreiber lab for his abstract presentation at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2014 (Nov. 15-19, Chicago, IL). Larry was invited to present this abstract entitled "Serum Amyloid A and Toll-Like Receptor 2 Activation Promote Dedifferentiation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells" to honor his selection as one of the top scoring abstracts at the American Heart Association's Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2014 Scientific Sessions last May.

Congratulations to Yanyan Lu!

Congratulations to Yanyan Lu in the Costello Laboratory for successfully defending her PhD Thesis: "Mass Spectrometry Studies of Immunoglobulins"

Congratulations to Teresa Colvin

Congratulations to Teresa Colvin in the Sherman lab who successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “The Heat Shock Protein Hsp70 Affects Cancer Signaling Via its Interaction with Co-chaperone Bag3".