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Biophysics student Ting-Yuan Yeh was awarded one of the 2009 pre-doctoral fellowships by the American Heart Association. This award cover stipend and benefits for one or two years and is competitively chosen among applicants from Delaware, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
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Three Biophysics students won awards at the Molecular Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium. Ali Hassanali won a first prize for his talk "Molecular mechanisms in the repair of the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer". Ian Kleckner and Bin Liu received poster awards for their presentations entitled "Donut Dynamics: a Relaxation Dispersion Study of Allosteric Gene Regulation by the Ring-Protein TRAP" and "&Abnormal Ca2+ binding associated with cardiac muscle diseases can be corrected through TnC mutagenesisquot;, respectively. |
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The third annual OSU Molecular Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs symposium will be held on Saturday, May 30, 2009 from 9am to 6pm. The symposium is a get together of all students and faculty in the molecular life sciences interdisciplinary graduate programs. It will feature three faculty talks, 24 student talks, and many student posters. Program students in their fourth or higher year are required to present a poster. For information, registration, and abstract submission (deadline 5/4) go to the symposium web site http://bioserv.mps.ohio-state.edu/igpsymp/2009. |
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Ali Hassanali has been awarded an OSU Presidential Fellowship. This fellowship provides one full year of support for the final year of a graduate student and is competitively awarded by the OSU graduate school among all graduate programs. Usually, only approximately 15 of these fellowships are awarded in every competition. |
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Biophysics student Jiwei Huang (advisor Ron Xu) won a first price at the 23rd Hayes Graduate Research Forum. The Hayes Graduate Research Forum is a yearly event in which graduate students from all programs at OSU present their work. |
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The outstanding academic achievement award is given every year to a student in the program that is distinguished through publications, conference presentations, and external awards. The 2009 award was shared by Ali Hassanali and Marianne Lee. |
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The 2009 Robert Ross lecture will be given by Youxing Jiang on 5/6/2008 at 2:30 in 170 Davis Heart and Lung. Youxing Jiang is a rising star in the field of X-ray crystallography of membrane proteins and was selected a Howard Hughes Investigator last year. His lecture will be entitled "Structural Analysis of a Non-selective Cation Channel".
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Biophysics student Rui Xiao from Mike Zhu’s group is co-author on the nature publication NAADP mobilizes calcium from acidic organelles through two-pore channels. |
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Ali Hassanali, Bin Liu, and Carlos Torres have been named the best student presentation award winners of 2008. They have been selected by the audience among ten senior students who presented their research in the Biophysics seminar this fall. As part of their awards, they will travel to Athens, Ohio, to present their work in the Biophysics seminar at Ohio University. |
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Our student government succeeded with help by Will Ray in having the Biophysics student organization recognized as an official Ohio State student organization. This Biophysics Student Organization strives to connect students of The Ohio State University who are interested in the study of Biophysics. |
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Three of our Biophysics students, namely Xin Li, Bin Liu, and Michelle Monasky, were awarded pre-doctoral fellowships by the American Heart Association in the 2008 competition. These awards cover stipend and benefits for one or two years and are competitively chosen among applicants from Delaware, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. |
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The students and faculty from the OSU Molecular Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs will come together for their second annual symposium on Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 9am to 6pm. The symposium will feature three faculty talks, about 24 student talks, and many student posters. Program students in their fourth or higher year are required to present a poster. For information, registration, and abstract submission (deadline 4/21) go to the symposium web site http://bioserv.mps.ohio-state.edu/igpsymp/2008. |
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Marianne Lee has been awarded an OSU Presidential Fellowship. This competitively awarded fellowship provides one full year of support for the final year of a graduate student. Usually, only approximately 15 fellowships are awarded in every competition. |
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Ryan Pavlovicz was awarded a 2008 American Foundation of Pharmaceutical Education Pre-Doctoral fellowship. Of these fellowships only up to 60 are awarded nationally every year. |
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By vote of our students this year's best student presentation award winners are Sarah Javaid, Marianne Lee, and Manoj Nair. All three will be able to give a presentation at the Biophysics seminar at Ohio University and obtain a honorarium for that presentation. |
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At the 2008 Robert Ross lecture the Elizabeth L. Gross award for faculty excellence and the outstanding academic achievement awards were presented.
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Michelle Monasky and Manoj Nair both won a second place at the 22nd annual Hayes Graduate Research Forum. The Hayes Graduate Research forum features presentations by graduate students from all disciplines at OSU and is highly competitive. Manoj Nair won in Biological Sciences and Michelle Monasky in Professional Biological Sciences. |
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Katryna Cisek working under the supervision of Chenglong Li won a poster award in the 2008 OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center annual scientific meeting. Her topics is a discovery of novel STAT3 dimerization inhibitors via computational design. |
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Manoj Nair wins a Joshua E. Neimark Memorial Travel Assistance Endowment grant to present his research at the 2008 Annual meeting of the AAAS at Boston, MA (Feb 14-18). He is one of ten winners of this award in 2008. |
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Manoj Nair was one of 16 receipients of the Ohio State Graduate School Alumni Grants for Graduate Research & Scholarship in the 2007 fall quarter. |
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Third year student Xin Li published a manuscript in PNAS under the supervision of Michael Chan. The full reference is:
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