STANFORD BIOCHEMISTRY IN THE NEWS
Frontiers in Biology & The 2016 Katharine D. McCormick Distinguished Lecture
Jennifer Doudna presents, "CRISPR Biology and the New Era of Genome Engineering"
Video link: http://stanfordvideo.stanford.edu/stream/frontiers.htm
A sigh is not JUST a sigh
Li and Yackle
Heaving an unconscious sigh is a life-sustaining reflex that helps preserve lung function
FAST, ACCURATE CYSTIC FIBROSIS TEST DEVELOPED AT STANFORD
Curt Scharfe
A fast, inexpensive test, which accurately screens newborns for cystic fibrosis has been developed at Stanford.
WHAT YOUR SWEAT REVEALS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH
Ron Davis
New technology may soon be able to measure what's in your sweat and reveal information about your health.
theriot lab member fabian ortega highlighted in #nextgreatdiscovery article
Fabian Ortega
DNA Repair - providing chemical stability for life
Paul Modrich
Paul L. Modrich, former student of founding Biochemistry faculty member Bob Lehman, is awarded 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Aziz Sancar.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2015/popular-chemistryprize2015.pdf
Julia Salzman
Julia Salzman is awarded 2015 McCormick-Gabilan Fellowship!
The McCormick-Gabilan Fellowship awards recipients with funding for research and related expenses, including those related to professional development. The source of the award is a generous gift to Stanford University from the Gabilan family. The gift is intended to support the advancement of faculty women in science. The Gabilan Fellows represent a group of faculty whose fellowship aims to contribute to the support of women in the sciences and engineering at Stanford. The Fellowship is awarded by the Provost after nomination from department chairs and deans.
See list at https://facultydevelopment.stanford.edu/gabilan-fellows-0).
Ronald Davis
Researchers design cheaper, faster, more accurate test to identify gene defects in heart patients
A new technique could eventually enable doctors to diagnose genetic heart diseases by rapidly scanning more than 85 genes known to cause cardiac anomalies.
Paul Berg
Let's Hit 'Pause' Before Altering Humankind
Two Nobel laureates on gene technology capable of making changes that are heritable by generations to come.
Modern biological research continues to generate new technology at a staggering pace, bringing to society new challenges and new opportunities. A recent appearance is the so-called CRISPR/Cas9 technology for altering genes in the body's cells, including, most troublingly, early embryonic cells.
Rachel Gomez
Steven Barrett
Steven Barrett and Rachel Gomez awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Steven Barrett and Rachel Gomez!
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
Rhiju Das
Rhiju Das awarded the ACS COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
Congratulations Rhiju Das!
Rhiju is a recipient of the ACS COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, which provides $1,000 to up to four outstanding tenure-track junior faculty members to present their work in COMP symposia at the Spring 2015 Denver, CO ACS National Meeting. The Awards are designed to assist new faculty members in gaining visibility within the COMP community.
Phil Beachy
Drug may prevent development of invasive bladder cancer, researchers say
A drug already approved for use in humans may prevent invasive bladder cancer, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Gamers: The new face of scientific research?
Das and EteRNA’s co-inventor, Adrien Treuille, PhD, (now at Carnegie Mellon University) think the gaming approach to biology offers some distinct – and to many scientists, perhaps unexpected – advantages over the more-traditional scientific method by which scientists solve problems: form a hypothesis, rigorously test it in your lab under controlled conditions, and keep it all to yourself until you at last submit your methods, data and conclusions to a journal for peer review and, if all goes well, publication.
Julie Theriot
K.C. Huang
Research leads to new understanding of how cells grow and shrink
Researchers use new techniques to document how cells can conceal growth and then suddenly swell up. The study is a paradigm shift in understanding "osmotic shock" and may lead to new strategies for fighting bacterial diseases.
The research paper, which describes a process known as "osmotic shock," was co-authored by Julie Theriot, a professor of biochemistry and of microbiology and immunology at Stanford School of Medicine.
The Biochemistry Department would like to congratulate our 2014 NSF Award recipients and honorable mentions
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Biochemistry Awardees and Honorable Mentions
2014 Awardees
Clayton Brown – Current Graduate Student
Maia Kinnebrew – Incoming Graduate Student
Margaux Pinney – Incoming Graduate Student
2014 Honorable Mentions
Brian Alford – Current Graduate Student
Chao Liu – Current Graduate Student
Julia Salzman
Assistant Professor Salzman selected for 2014 Sloan fellowship.
Congratulations Julia Salzman!
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as recipients of the 2014 Sloan Research Fellowships. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders.