Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics
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Ward Defends Masters
The Cell Physiology Department congratulates Todd Ward, who successfully presented his Masters Thesis Defense February 29, 2008. Todd's thesis title was "Rodent Sodium Potassium-ATPase Alpha-1 and Alpha-3 Catalytic Subunit Regulation Involves Conventional Protein Kinase C Subtypes."
Todd's mentor is Dr. Thomas Pressley.
SOM Grant Awarded!
Congratulations to Lorenz Lutherer, M.D., Ph.D., recipient of a School of Medicine Seed Grant for FY 2008 for his work titled: “Effect of Low Dose, Orally Administered IFNalpha on Chronic Cough in COPD”
The grant will be funded September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2008.
Scholarship Winner!
As part of the TTU/HHMI Student Research Days, the Fellow/Mentor/Partners reception and banquet was held this past Friday night. Trenton Hoffman, HHMI student in the Strahlendorf Lab, received the Richard L. Blanton Endowed Scholarship for Undergraduate Research awarded at the banquet. Trenton, who is heading to Washington University in Missouri for graduate school, presented his poster, titled “Role of SRC-Family Tyrosine Kinases in Excitotoxicity of the Rat Cerebellum,” as part of the Research Days.
Congratulations, Trenton, and we wish you much success in the future!
TTU Student Research Week Winner!
Congratulations to VelvetLee Finckbone, Medical Research Tech from the Strahlendorf lab, who yesterday was awarded 1st place in the Sixth Annual Graduate Student Research Poster Competition held on the TTU Campus on Thursday, March 22nd.
VelvetLee competed in the Biological Sciences Division with her poster titled: “Regional Differences in the Temporal Expression of Nonapoptotic Caspase-3- Positive Bergmann Glial Cells in the Developing Rat Cerebellum”.
Way to go VelvetLee, and we wish you continued success!
Student Research Week Winner!
Congratulations to Bobbak Mansouri!
Bobby was awarded 1st place in the Undergraduate category of the Student Research Week poster competition after presenting his work on “Involvement of calpain in AMPA-induced toxicity to rat cerebellar Purkinje neurons.”
Bobby, who was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship last Spring, is an HHMI student in Dr. Jean Strahlendorf’s lab.
Way to go, Bobby!
We’re in the Money!
Congratulations to Drs. Escobar and Martínez-Zaguilán on their grant funding!
Dr. Ariel Escobar recently received his award notice for his NIH R01 grant to study “Subcellular Origin of T-Wave Alternans in the Beating Mouse Heart.”
Dr. Raul Martínez-Zaguilán just received his notice of an award through the Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center Seed Grant Program to study “Proton ATPases are Molecular Targets for Chemotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer.”
Congratulations to these two fine Physiology scientists!!
Physiology Scholars!
Congratulations to the following Physiology Graduate Students. They each earned Scholarships awarded at the TTUHSC Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Award Reception held November 1.
Dean’s Scholar
Chris Tomingas
Chancellor’s Scholars
Jennifer Attridge
Ryan Downey
Jimmy Fraigne
Lisa Welch
We are very proud of all of you!
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