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Events
In Other News
February 4
2009 — Dr. Jennifer Palenchar has been awarded a three
year AREA/R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study
"Trypanosome RNA Synthesis: Characterization of a Novel Transcription Factor
as a Potential Drug Target". The amount of the award is $220,827.
Congratulations!
August
25 2008 — Dr. James Wilson has been appointed Assistant
Professor of Biology at Villanova. Dr. Wilson received his Bachelors degree
from Bates College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Wilson is
interested in varying genes and growth conditions that can be used to
engineer bacteria. Welcome!
May
2008 – Congratulations to Dr. Dennis Wykoff, who was
awarded a grant from the Research at Undergraduate Institutions program of
the National Science Foundation to study the Evolution of Phosphate
Starvation Response in Yeasts. The grant provides funding of $466,109 for
three years beginning in August 2008.
News
- February 4 2009 — Dr. Jennifer Palenchar has been awarded a three year AREA/R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study "Trypanosome RNA Synthesis: Characterization of a Novel Transcription Factor as a Potential Drug Target". The amount of the award is $220,827. Congratulations!
- October 2008 — Dr. Anil Bamezai, with Biology graduate students J Reed and P Branigan, published a paper in the
Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research titled “Interferon-gamma enhances clonal expansion and survival of CD4+ T cells.” Well done!
- August 25 2008 — Dr. James Wilson has been appointed Assistant Professor of Biology at Villanova. Dr. Wilson received his Bachelors degree from Bates College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Wilson is interested in varying genes and growth conditions that can be used to engineer bacteria. Welcome!
- July 2008 — Dr. Anil Bamezai, with Biology graduate student C. Kennedy, published an article in the journal
Methods in Molecular Biology titled “Cell-free antibody capture method for analysis of detergent-resistant membrane rafts.” Congratulations!
- May 19 2008 — Congratulations to Lauren Delery, Neil Howard, Alex Knihnicky, Kim Lao, Allison Sing, Andrew Slye, and Alexis Torres, who graduated with Biochemistry degrees at Villanova’s commencement ceremonies this morning. All the best!
- May 2008 – Congratulations to Dr. Dennis Wykoff, who was awarded a grant from the Research at Undergraduate Institutions program of the National Science Foundation to study the Evolution of Phosphate Starvation Response in Yeasts. The grant provides funding of $466,109 for three years beginning in August 2008.
- May 2008 — Dr. Jennifer Palenchar, with collaborator V. Bellofatto, recently published an article titled “RNA interference as a genetic tool in trypanosomes” in the journal Methods in Molecular Biology. Congratulations!
- April 10 2008 — Dr. Angela DiBenedetto, with Villanova Biology faculty member Todd Jackman and collaborators J.B. Guinto, T.D. Ebert, K.J. Bee, and M. Schmidt, published an articled titled “Zebrafish brd2a and brd2b are Zebrafish brd2a and brd2b are paralogous members of the bromodomain-ET (BET) family of transcriptional coregulators that show structural and expression divergence” in the journal BMC Developmental Biology. Congratulations!
- March 2008 — Dr. Janice Knepper, with Villanova Biology graduate student M. Rao and collaborators Y. F. Tan, R. A. Timakhov, D. A. Altomare, J. Xu, Z. Liu, Q. Gao, S. Jhanwar, A DiCristofano, D. L. Wiest, and J. R. Testa, published a paper titled “A novel recurrent chromosomal inversion implicates the homeobox gene Dlx5 in T-cell lymphomas from Lck-Akt2 transgenic mice” in the journal
Cancer Research. Congratulations!
- July 11 2007 — Dr. Christine Martey-Ochola, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, was awarded $14,784 for one year of research on the effect of cigarette smoke on nitric oxide synthase in normal human lung fibroblasts and the attenuation of cell transformation with the use of antineoplastic/anti-inflammatory compounds through the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation. Congratulations!
- May 20, 2007 — The first four Biochemistry majors have received their B.S. degrees from Villanova University. Congratuations to Mike Denny, Jamie Geraghty, Chris Pascual, and Jena Roath, our first graduating class of biochemists!
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