Michelle Baranski, a graduate student with Professor Steve Hauschka of Biochemistry, hit the news in late September. Although usually preoccupied by the role of Wnt proteins in embryonic chicken muscle development, Baranski turned her attention to the lowly strawberry on the occasion of the South Lake Union Block Party (alias the SLUG fest). Baranski and Sean Kassim, a Senior Fellow with Professor Bill Parks in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine, devised a competition to see who among the attending dignitaries could extract the most DNA from a strawberry. First prize went to Ada Healey, Vice President of Vulcan Real Estate, developer of the South Lake Union site which is fast becoming the second campus of UW School of Medicine. The key diplomatic problem, we hear from inside sources, was determining who should receive the biggest strawberry. Unfortunately, masterminding this competition does not qualify for academic credit, but Baranski and Kassim may now be favored candidates for high positions in the local venture capital scene. The experimental protocol is given below. The experimental organism is shown to the right.
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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”. |
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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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