In the News
New students for Fall 2009
The Chemical Biology PhD Program is delighted to announce our incoming class for Fall 2009. We have 14 new students joining us, bringing the program total to 58 students. They all have outstanding and interesting backgrounds and come from across the United States as well as from as far away as South Africa. We are very pleased that they have decided to join us here at the University of Michigan.
posted 4/15/2009
Prof. Lei Selected for HHMI Early Career Award
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has announced that Ming Lei has been awarded an Early Career Scientist award. The award supports scientists who are just beginning their independent research careers, by providing full salary, benefits, and a research budget of $1.5 million over the six-year appointment. The Institute will also cover other expenses, including research space and the purchase of critical equipment.
posted 3/26/2009
Interdepartmental Chemical Biology Program sees continued success
Initiated in 2004; the program has grown to include 58 students and 44 faculty members from Biological Chemistry, Biophysics, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology. Click here to read about how the program got its start.
posted 3/9/2009
Chembio Student publishes article in ACS Chem. Biol.
Tonia Buchholz, 5th year student in the program, who is working in Prof. David Sherman’s lab published article titled: “Structural Basis for Binding Specificity between Subclasses of Modular Polyketide Synthase Docking Domains” Click here to view the article.
posted 1/30/2009
Professor to Lead Collaborative Research Program
Dr. Tom Kerppola is heading a new collaborative research program directed toward the development of high resolution probes for cellular imaging. The program is jointly directed by Harinder Singh in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at The University of Chicago and Tzvi Tzfira in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology at University of Michigan. The focus of the program is to develop new applications for the bimolecular fluorescence complementation technology developed in the Kerppola laboratory. The program will include studies in cultured mammalian cells, plants and animals. The collaborative nature of the program enables the laboratories to pursue interdisciplinary studies in a wider range of fields than would be possible for each individual laboratory. The complementary areas of expertise of the participating laboratories facilitate the rapid transfer of information and speed up adoption of new technologies. The program is funded by NIH for an initial four-year period.
posted 1/28/2009
Professor Receives Degree from Cambridge
Dr. Neil Marsh has been awarded the Doctor of Science degree (Sc.D.) from Cambridge University. This degree is confered on alumni of the University who have made important and extensive scholarly contributions to an area of research as demonstrated by a substantive body of published work.
posted 10/24/2008
Professor to Receive 2009 Award
Dr. David Sherman was chosen as the 2009 recipient of the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award. He will be presented the award at the 238th fall ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC August 2009.
posted 10/24/2008
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
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 10/02/2008
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 7/9/2008
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 9/30/2008
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 3/24/2008
