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A Recent publication of the SDSL EPR and crystallographic structure of a tetrameric fragment of Vimentin, from the FitzGerald and Voss labs, was featured on the Nature Structural Biology website, under Research Advances: Symmetry from Asymmetry . The feature may be found here.
CONGRATULATIONS
Dr. Ed Pugh, Jr., Principal Investigator on a UC Davis RISE proposal which was awarded almost $900,000 to develop optical capabilities to image retinal cells.
Dr. Richard Tucker, for receiving both the UC Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, and the School of Medicine's Kaiser Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Basic Science to medical students.
Jan Nolta, PhD, Director of the UC Davis Stem Cell Program and its Institute for Regenerative Cures, whose teams recently received $53 Million in funding for the application of stem cells to the treatment of several different human diseases.
Paul G. FitzGerald Appointed New Department Chairman
The Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul G. FitzGerald as our new Department Chairman. Having been a faculty member of the Department for more than 25 years and recognized as a distinguished leader within the Department, School of Medicine and broader campus community, we look forward to a period of renewal and growth under Dr. FitzGerald’s outstanding leadership.
WELCOME NEW DEPARTMENTAL FACULTY
The Department is in the midst of a multi-year plan to expand, and to build research strength in the Vision Sciences. By September 2012, four well-established Vision Science investigators will have joined the Department. These faculty will complement existing department strengths in stem cells, neurobiology, and cell biology, and existing campus strength in the Vision Sciences ( http://cvs.ucdavis.edu/).
In spring of 2012, Nadean Brown, PhD, joined us from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Dr Brown uses molecular genetic approaches to study the mechanisms of lens and retinal development.
Also in Spring 2012, Tom Glaser, MD, PhD joined the department. Dr. Glaser's research seeks to unravel the genetic basis for human retinal diseases, and to determine the pathogenic mechanisms of such disorders.
In August 2012 Dr. Edward Pugh, Jr, PhD, will be moving his lab to the Department. Dr. Pugh uses high resolution microscopy and cell/molecular approaches to decipher the mechanisms by which light is transduced into electrical activity in the retina.
Also moving into the Department in August, 2012 is Dr. Marie Burns, jointly appointed in Ophthalmology. Dr. Burns uses a range of molecular and physiologic approaches to define the components, and regulation of the signal transduction that converts light into electrical impulses in the rod cells of the retina.
Blogoshphere as a means of scientific communication?
Associate Professor Paul Knoepfler explains why he joined the ranks of the blogoshpere, and why you should too.
More about Dr. Knoepfler's blog in "Nature News"
