NEWS

• New Chalk Talk format and awards!
• UMass Amherst awarded $7 million in NIH stimulus funds to create shared lab and instrument space and build two new labs in Lederle. Jennifer Normanly (BMB) recognizes CBI Program as catalyst for project aimed at strengthening collaborations: "This proposal grew directly out of a really terrific training program known as the Chemistry Biology Interface that we’ve had in place for 15 years" (9/09)
• CBI receives additional Trainee Slot through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009!
• 2009 CBI/BMB/BMP JOINT RETREAT HIGHLIGHTS
• CBI News 2009
  

CBI members are doing incredible things! Congratulations to the professors, students, and labs recently in the news for their achievements...

• Congratulations to Eugenia and Alejandro--Linus Juan Heuck was born 11/3!
• Lila Gierasch receives supplement to use a computational model to explore how proteins utilize the Hsp70 molecular chaperone network to achieve their proper folded state
• Dan Hebert's grant for Cellular Protein Maturation and Degradation, aimed at understanding how proteins fold and mature in mammalian cells, and how the cell evaluates and discards improperly matured proteins, renewed
• Sue Roberts, Elsbeth Walker (Bio) and Jennifer Normanly (BMB) establish a Taxol™ consortium that applies molecular biology approaches to characterizing and manipulating Taxus metabolism for production of the anti-cancer agent paclitaxel (Taxol™)
• Craig Martin named Department Head of Chemistry
• Congratulations to Min Chen and Matt Holden on new baby, Neil Chen Holden! (9/09)
• Cornelius Taabazuing, formerly an undergrad student in the Schnarr lab, spent the summer working with Nobel Laureate Tom Cech (8/09)
• Image developed by members of the Thai Group featured in JACS Image Challenge (8/09)
• Jeanne Hardy appears on EcoExchange WGBY for work with CCI (8/09)
• Please welcome the newest addition to Surita Bhatia's family, Evan Arjun Khalifah! He was born July 19, 2009, and weighed in at 9 lbs 14 oz.
• Welcome Peter Chien (BMB) and Matt Holden (Chem) the newest CBI faculty (7/09)
• Vince Rotello, Joe Jerry and colleagues' work "Detection and differentiation of normal, cancerous, and metastatic cells using nanoparticle-polymer sensor arrays" featured in PNAS (6/09)
• Brad Pearse (Hebert Lab) won a gift certificate to Pasta E Basta for his poster, “Loss of the ER Quality Control Aensor GT1 Results in Mislocalization of an Endogenous Aubstrate to Intracellular Deposits,” at the Joint Retreat (6/09)
• Antonio Viana (Schnell Lab) won a gift certificate to Pasta E Basta for his poster, “Determinants for stop-transfer and post-import pathways for protein targeting to the chloroplast inner envelope membrane,” at the Joint Retreat (6/09)

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