Dr. Barbara Schreiber receives Excellence in Teaching Award
Dr. Barbara M. Schreiber, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Director of Graduate Students, received the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine 2010 Excellence in Teaching in the Basic Sciences Award.
Congratulations to Dr. Gwynneth Offner!!
Dr. Offner was awarded a 2010 Educator of the Year Award which are based on student nominations. For more information click here.
Joerg Kumbrink, Ph.D. awarded a Komen Fellowship Research Grant!
Joerg Kumbrink, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kirsch lab, was awarded a Susan G. Komen Fellowship Research Grant! His project will look at the "Development of inhibitors targeting p130Cas/BCAR1 family proteins." This grant has been funded for two years with an optional third year of funding.
Dr. Costello Receives Outstanding Achievement Award in Mass Spectrometry
Congratulations to Dr. Cathy Costello for receiving the 2010 Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry from the American Chemical Society. This is a tremendous honor and a recognition Cathy’s pioneering contributions to the mass spectrometry of biomolecules, especially carbohydrates and glycoproteins. A link to the B.U. news announcement is below.
Recent Publication News!
Symes and Nugent lab collaboration highlighted in BU News
PNAS Paper can be found here !
Use of the Confocal
The Biochemistry Department is offering to assist faculty in the department (or their lab members) who desire to use the confocal for specific projects but lack sufficient funds at this time. Please submit a half page description of the project including your goal, hypothesis to be tested and experimental design and length of expected need to Drs. Harris and Trinkaus-Randall.
Faculty Promotions!
Recent Faculty Promotions
- Cathy Costello, Professor of Biochemistry
- Kathrin Kirsch, Associate Professor of Biochemistry
- Cheng Lin, Research Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
- Joseph Zaia, Associate Professor of Biochemistry