Upcoming Events

Seminar - March 24 - David Weis (abstract)
Department of Chemistry
University of Kansas, Lawrence

Student Awards

Leonie Bossmann (undergraduate, Takemoto)
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Travel Award for the 2010 annual meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (May) will present the poster "Overexpression of Cx46 Causes Proteasome-Dependent Degradation of Cx43 in Lens". (Banerjee, Madgwick, Akoyev, Bossman, and Takemoto)

Minglin Lang (research assistant, Kanost)
and Emily Ragan (postdoctorate, Kanost)
American Society of Biochemisty and Molecular Biology 2010 Graduate/Postdoctoral Travel Fellowship
for the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology/ Experimental Biology combined anual meeting in Anaheim, California (April).

Debabani Ganguly (postdoctorate, Chen)
Fall 2009 Terry C. Johnson Center for Cancer Research Graduate Travel Award for the 54th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Fransisco, California (February 2010) to present a poster called "Gō-like modeling of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Balancing intrinsic structural propensity and intermolecular interaction".

Sushanth Gudlur (graduate, Tomich)
Fall 2009 Terry C. Johnson Center for Cancer Research Graduate Travel Award
KSU Biochemistry Hedgecoth Graduate Travel Award
for the 54th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Fransisco, California (February 2010) to present a platform presentation on "Branched, Amphipathic Peptides that selfo assemble into Nanovesicles"

Debarshi Banerjee (graduate, Takemoto)
Fall 2009 Terry C. Johnson Center for Cancer Research Graduate Travel Award for the American Society of Cell Biology meeting in San Diego, California (December) to present the poster "Overexpression of Cx46 causes proteasome-dependent degradation in Cx43 in lens." (Banerjee, Madgwick, Akoyev, Bossman, and Takemoto)

Debjani Pal (graduate, Wei)
Fall 2009 Terry C. Johnson Center for Cancer Research Graduate Travel Award for the American Society of Cell Biology meeting in San Diego, California (December) to present a poster called 'A novel coiled- coil protein is required for the localization of Plk1 to the central spindle'

Sujata Chaudhari (graduate, Muthukrishnan)
Fall 2009 Terry C. Johnson Center for Cancer Research Graduate Travel Award
Sinu Jasrapuria (graduate, Muthukrishnan)
KSU Arthropod Genomics Graduate Travel Award
for the 2009 Entomological Society of America meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana (December)

Sayabrata Das (graduate, Takemoto)
2009 Biochemistry Hedgcoth Graduate Teaching Award

Emilia Solomon (graduate, Zolkiewska)
2009 Biochemistry Hedgcoth Graduate Research Award

Satyabrata Das (graduate, Takemoto)
Konza and Manhattan Rotary Club Scholarship
for outstanding international students in graduate study at KSU

Faculty/Staff Awards

Jianhan Chen
National Science Foundation CAREER award

Jianhan Chen
Johnson Cancer Center Innovative Research Award
for the pilot project "Mechanism of Coupled Folding and Binding of p27 to Cdk2/cyclin A"

Dolores Takemoto
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthamology Fellow