Jessica Hoffman
UW Scientists and Collegues provide new understanding of sense of touch
A research team including Jeff Woodbury, associate professor in the UW Deptarement of Zoology and Physiology, is featured in the December 2011 issue of Cell.
The team’s findings provide a first look at the organization of the nerve cells that carry signals from the hair on the skin. Until now, the skin as a sensory organ has remained poorly understood. The study, Woodbury says, opens doors to understanding not only touch, but skin senses such as temperature detection and pain. Woodbury is among scientists in UW’s Neuroscience Program , supported by a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Biomedical Research Excellence
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Kansas COBRE Member Uncovers the Structure of a Protein Linked to Cancer
Medicinal Chemistry associate professor Emily Scott at The University of Kansas recently uncovered the structure of protein linked to prostate cancer, the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men. This work, completed with former graduate student Natasha DeVore, was published in the February 2012 issue of the journal Nature. Partial funding for the research was provided through the KU NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Protein Structure and Function.
INBRE GRANT TRANSFORMS RESEARCH LABORATORIES AT NEC
New England College, an INBRE partner in New Hampshire, received $68,000 in renovation funds, as part of a larger $650,000 grant the College received in September.
The laboratory spaces used by Dr. Lori Bergeron, Assistant Professor of Biology, and Dr. James Newcomb, Assistant Professor of Biology, have received much needed upgrades in storage and work space and new equipment.
Biologist Bryan Ballif and team featured in Forbes, Popular Science and the UK’s Daily Mail
Bryan Ballif and colleagues in France have discovered 2 proteins on red blood cells that are responsible for lesser known blood types, Langereis and Junior. Dr. Ballif, using a mass spectrometer at UVM that is supported by the Vermont Genetics Network, analyzed the proteins isolated by Lionel Arnaud at the French National Institute for Blood Transfusion in Paris, France. The research, published in the journal Nature Genetics, also has possible implications for improved cancer treatments because the new blood types have been identified with anticancer drug resistance.
It is hoped that a routine test will be developed to screen for the new blood proteins.
Great Bay Community College Students to Participate in Summer Undergraduate Fellowship (SURF) program at Dartmouth
By Lisa Proulx
Andrew Guilliams and Michael Fullerton, students associated with Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, accepted invitations to join the Dartmouth Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. Dartmouth received over 400 applications for this prestigious fellowship.
Partial funding for the Dartmouth SURF program is provided by the New Hampshire IDeA Network of Biological Research Excellence (NH-INBRE) www.nhinbre.org.
Oklahoma video showcase research advances
Video showcases Oklahoma’s use of IDea funds to drive cutting edge research, expand biomedical research faculty, enhance research infrastructure.
4th Northeast Regional IDeA Meeting
4th Northeast Regional IDeA Meeting
Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
Wednesday, August 10-12, 2011
Northwest Nazarene University uses systems biology to study effects of alcohol on vitamin A
Researchers developed computer simulations to study the possible link between alcohol and disease. One hypothesis is that alcohol blocks the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase from properly metabolizing vitamin A. Read More
ABRF welcomes Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) as newest chapter
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- The ABRF welcomes the Northeast Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD, also often called NERDS) as its newest ABRF Chapter!
- The annual NERLSCD meeting is a regional forum for core facility directors and mangers to network with colleagues, to learn about biotechnology advances and applications, and to discuss the challenges and results of implementing shared research resources. The NERLSCD meeting, now in its seventh year, has developed into a model of regional core laboratory cooperation. NERLSCD 2011included presentations and discussion forums on operational issues facing biotechnology core laboratories. There were scientific presentations and technical workshops on next generation sequencing, microarrays, proteomics, metabolomics, clinical diagnostics, flow cytometry, optical and electron microscopy, and bioinformatics. A core facility poster session offered attendees an opportunity to learn about regional life sciences shared resources. Pre-conference satellite events included the Northeast Symposium on Proteomics and Protein Chemistry, an Educational Workshop on Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS), and a NY State Core Administrators Network (NY-CAN) meeting.
- NERLSCD 2012will be held October 24-26, 2012 at the Mountain View Grand Resort, Whitefield, New Hampshire, hosted by Norris Cotton Cancer Center of Dartmouth Medical School. Please mark the date!
- You can find out more about ABRF Chapters and Affiliates at the ABRF 2012 annual conference, March 17-20, 2012, in Orlando, Fl. There will be many opportunities at ABRF 2012 to meet with Chapter and Affiliate members and to learn about how to become involved and about opportunities to establish new ABRF Chapters and Affiliates. The ABRF and the “ABRF NERDS” Chapter look forward to seeing you at the ABRF 2012 meeting!
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Idaho researchers look at drugs that disrupt communication between bacteria
Due to the dramatic rise in antibiotic resistant microbes, there is a continual need to develop new antimicrobial drugs. Researchers at Boise State are looking at drugs that can interrupt the way bacteria communicate with each other.
