HAPPENINGS IN THE DEPARTMENT

OF NOTE

A Retrospective of Annemarie Weber by Clara Franzini-Armstrong has been published in ASBMB Today. Scroll to page 16.

The Chemical Heritage Foundation includes Mildred Cohn in their video series, Women in Chemistry. Dr. Cohn was highlighted on the Penn Medicine blog site: What would Mildred Do?

SEMINARS

Thursday, December 6, 2012
DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY & BIOPHYSICS | RAIZISS ROUNDS SEMINAR SERIES
Tarun Kapoor, Ph.D.
Professor in the Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, Rockefeller University
Examining mechanisms required for error-free cell division
12:00 noon
Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building

Friday, December 7, 2012
FRIDAY RESEARCH DISCUSSIONS
Topic: Membranes
Tobias Baumgart, Baumgart Lab, Department of Chemistry
Biophysics of lipid and protein interactions and their modulation by membrane curvature
4:00 p.m.
JF Library, 248 Anatomy-Chemistry Bldg.

 

PUBLICATIONS

FROM THE SHORTER LAB: “Operational plasticity enables Hsp104 to disaggregate diverse amyloid and nonamyloid clients” (2012) by Morgan DeSantis, Eunice Leung, Elizabeth Sweeny, Meredith Jackrel, Mimi Cushman-Nick, Alexandra Neuhaus-Follini, Shilpa Vashist, Matthew Sochor, M. Noelle Knight, and James Shorter. Cell 151(4):778-793.
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This issue of Cell also includes an editorial comment on the paper, “HSP104 gives clients the individual attention they need” by Amber Murray and Jeffery Kelly. Cell 151(4):695-697.
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