In the News

2008 Life Sciences Open House
The open house will be held on Saturday, October 18 from 10:00am- 2:30pm at the BSRB on the Ann Arbor, U of M Campus. The open house will have information about the following UM programs: Chemical Biology, PIBS, Chemistry, MSTP, Medicinal Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences. For more information and registration details, click here.
posted 10/3/08

Redox Biochemistry Book Reviewed
Redox Biochemistry, Edited by Ruma Banerjee (Chemical Biology) and associate editors Donald Becker, Martin Dickman, Vadim Gladyshev and Stephen Ragsdale (Chemical Biology), click here to read review.
posted 10/3/08

Students Honored at Symposium
Three Chemical Biology Students were honored at the 2008 Vaughan Sympoium (PECRUM) poster session. Third year student Devayani Bhave received honorable mention for her poster. Fourth year student Tasha Francis was awarded a travel grant for her poster. And third year student Candice Paulsen was recognized for her outstanding talk.
posted 10/3/08

News and Views highlights work from Banerjee Lab
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posted 10/3/08

Article in Science Magazine
Chemical Biology faculty Janet Smith and David Sherman have just published an article in the widely-distributed Science Magazine entitled "An Enzyme Assembly Line." For the full article, click here.
posted 10/02/08

Training Program Awards
Chris Rath, Year Three Chemical Biology student, has been selected for the Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Training Program. John Androsavich, Year One student, has been chosen as a Cellular Biotechnology Training Program trainee. Elaina Zverina, Year One student, has been selected for the Pharmacological Sciences Training Program. Congratulations to Chris, John and Elaina!
posted 7/9/08

Our New Class
Ten new students are joining Chemical Biology this Fall, and they are Brian DeVree, Amanda Dugan, Elin Edwald, Eli Eisman, Hugo Fung, Rachel Leslie, Chenxi Shen, Andrea Thompson, Ningkun Wang, and Jonathan Whicher. Welcome, class of 2013!
updated 9/30/08

Article in Molecular BioSystems
Chemical Biology faculty member Kate Carroll and Chemical Biology student Steve Leonard co-authored a recent article in Molecular BioSystems that describes a chemical approach for detecting sulfenic acid-modified proteins in living cells. For more information, click here. This article has since been highlighted in Nature Chemical Biology, click here.
posted 3/24/08

New Staff
Chemical Biology is happy to announce the addition of Amy McGovern to our staff. She comes to us from the Arts and Programs Department here at the University. Amy has worked for the University since 2001 and is excited to be joining the program.
posted 1/8/08

RNA Movie
Chemical Biology faculty member Hashim Al-Hashimi and Chemical Biology student Andrew Stelzer co-authored a recent article in Nature that describes a novel strategy for collecting data on RNA motion that provides a 3D visualization. For more information, click here.
posted 12/21/07

AAAS Fellows
Congratulations to Chemical Biology faculty Gary Glick, Janet Smith, Carol Fierke and Dave Ballou, who have recently been chosen for the prestigious honor of being named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Existing Fellows of AAAS include Chemical Biology faculty Bob Kennedy, Raoul Kopelman, Vince Pecoraro, Jim Penner-Hahn, Bill Smith, Ron Woodard and Erik Zuiderweg.
posted 10/26/07

On the Cover
Research from the lab of Vince Pecoraro, Chemical Biology faculty, has recently been displayed as the cover image for the journal Angewandte Chemie for research relating to biomolecular recognition and de novo protein design. To view the cover, click here. For the full article, click here.
posted 10/24/07

New Center of Single Molecule Analysis
Nils Walter, Chemical Biology faculty, is chairing the steering committee for a modern, open-access Center of Single Molecule Analysis (CoSiMA) on UM Campus. For more information about the Center, click here.
posted 10/23/07

Teflon-like Antimicrobials
Neil Marsh, Chemical Biology faculty, is researching flourination of natural antibiotics, which may lead to new drug classes that are more stable and potent than their predecessors. For the complete article, click here.
posted 10/23/07

Water Good for RNA
Research by Nils Walter et al. has shown that water is important to ribozyme function. For the complete article, click here.
updated 10/23/07