News

• 3 new faculty hired in the areas of host-pathogen interactions and microbial physiology - find out more about Drs. Alber, Rappleye and Seveau.

• We welcome nine new graduate students to our Department for the 2007-2008 school year: Eusondia Arnett, Michael Carter, Foy Kevin Chu, Ran Furman, Geoffrey Gonzalez-Escobedo, Tracy Keiser, Liang-Chun Liu, Shilpa Soni, and Stephen Vadia.

Congratulations

• Tina Henkin, recipient of the 2006 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology and College of Biological Sciences Distinguished Professor.

• Joe Krzycki joins Tina Henkin, Bob Munson,  John Reeve, and Bob Tabita, as Fellows in the American Academy of Microbiology.

• Graduate student fellowship recipients: Michelle Brooks (NSF Schlesinger Lab), Corey Clay (NIH, Gunn & Schlesinger Labs), Jiqiang Ling (AHA Ibba Lab), Heidi Snider (NIH Satoskar Lab), Sharnise Wilson (NIH Henkin Lab)

• 2006 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum winners: Adrian Lange (Artsimovitch Lab), Molly Paras (Ibba Lab) and Shikary Tasneem (Satoskar Lab)

Research Highlights
 

• Researchers Watch Antibiotics, Bacteria Meet At Atomic Level

• Getting One's Protein In A Bunch: When Quality Control Fails

• Researchers Get To Heart Of Tropical Disease

• 22nd Amino Acid Synthesized And Added To Genetic Code Of E. Coli

• Study Findings Offer Potential New Targets For Antibiotics

Other Activities

• 2007-2009 Gordon Research Conference on RNA Editing Co-Chair Juan Alfonzo

• 2007-2008 aaRS 2008 Co-Chair Michael Ibba