Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group
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News in BMB:
Congratulations to the May 2012 BMB graduates!
Tammer, Farid, Ph.D.
David Moore, Ph.D.
Katie Sarachan, Ph.D.
John Skinner, Ph.D.
Josh Allen successfully defended his thesis on May 8th! His thesis topic: "Efficacy and mechanistic evaluation of TIC10, a novel antitumor agent” (mentor: Wafik El-Diery)
Congratulations to Gideon Dreyfuss on his election to the National Academy of Sciences.
Trevor Penning is the inaugural recipient of the endowed Thelma Brown and Henry Charles Molinoff Professor of Pharmacology.
The 2012 Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation has been awarded to Scott Bresler (mentor: Mark Lemmon). Scott's dissertation topic was, "Regulation and inhibition of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase".
Emily Bassett (mentor: Ben Black) is recipient of the 2012 P. Leslie Dutton Award for Outstanding Publication by a BMB graduate student (Developmental Cell 22:749-762)
Kevan Salimian, a graduate student in Ben Black's lab, has been awarded the Dr. Roy G Williams Award for "meritorious research in basic medical sciences", which is one of the 2012 Medical Student Research Paper Prizes. The award was based on Kevan's paper on, "Feedback control in sensing chromosome biorientation by the Aurora B kinase", published in Current Biology last year.
Josh Allen has been selected to participate in the 2012 St. Jude National Graduate Student Symposium (NGSS) where he will present his work on "Potent anti-tumor effects of TIC10 require Foxo3a and TRAIL gene upregulation". Josh is completing his Ph.D. with WafikEl-Deiry at Hershey Medical Center.
Mitch Lewis is recipient of the 2012 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, which is Penn's highest teaching honor.
Mark Lemmon is the 2012 Awardee of the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award of the Protein Society. The Award, sponsored by Genentech, is granted in recognition of exceptional contributions in protein science,which profondly influence our understanding of biology.
The Graduate Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics is devoted to the education and training of a new generation of scientists ready to apply quantitative, mechanistic and molecular approaches to advance the frontiers of biomedical research.
Grounded on a strong relationship with the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, BMB offers truly interdisciplinary training that is coordinated by a fluid and diverse faculty representing many departments and schools of the University.
The more than 70 research laboratories affiliated with BMB share common interests to understand biological phenomena at the fundamental molecular level, exploiting an ever-increasing battery of biochemical and biophysical techniques.
Kathryn M. Ferguson, Ph.D.
Chair, Graduate Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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Mark your calendars and register here for the 2012 B&B/BMB Retreat: June 14-15 at Swarthmore College.
BMB 2013 Recruitment Dates:
PhD:
January 18 and February 8.
MD/PhD: January 10-11
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