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Tom Schmidlin is disguised by day as a mild-mannered graduate
student working with Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Brian Kennedy, on the yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model for human aging, but Schmidlin also has a secret life:
He was chosen as "Beerdrinker of the Year" in an irreverent 2 hour competition held on February 25 in
Denver, Colorado, and sponsored by the Wynkoop Brewing Company. See the feature article
in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Food Editor Hsiao-Ching Chou.
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David Baker, Professor of Biochemistry and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences on April 25, 2006. This richly deserved honor is one of the highest that can be bestowed on a US scientist. |
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Using a mouse model, Thomas Hnasko of the Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior and Professor Richard Palmiter have investigated the role of dopamine in the behavioural responses to drugs of abuse. As first author, Hnasko was interviewed by Nature. |
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Regulatory pathway linking nutrition and aging characterized by graduate student Kristan Steffan, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Brian Kennedy, and Matt Kaeberlein, a postdoctoral fellow with Stan Fields, Professor of Genome Sciences. |
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Specific lipid-protein interactions can be visualized in the structure of two-dimensional Aquaporin-0 crystals as determined by cryoelectron microscopy ("cryo em") at the remarkable resolution of 1.9 Angstroms. Tamir Gonen, now an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, recently completed this work as a postdoctoral fellow with Professors Thomas Walz and Stephen Harrison at Harvard Medical School. |
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Early detection screens for six metabolic disorders in newborns developed byMichael Gelb, Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry |
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The L2L suite combines a simple analytical tool and comprehensive database for discovering the hidden significance in microarray expression data (the tool and database are available online at http://depts.washington.edu/l2l/). L2L was developedby graduate student John Newman and Alan Weiner, Professor of Biochemistry,to take the bias out of gene expression microarray studies. |
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Nature features work by Biochemistry graduate student Steve Hatfield and Professor Hannele Ruohola-Baker on role of microRNAs in Drosophila stem cell |
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Real estate magnate isolates DNA from strawberry under watchful eye of Biochemistry graduate student Michelle Baranski |
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