Weekly Newsletter of the Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Michigan State University
Carol McCutcheon, Editor
Submissions, mccutch1@msu.edu
or 2nd floor mailboxes, Biochem Building
Vol. 36, No. 15, April 5-9, 2004
Weekly Calendar
Monday, Apl 5
3:30
Elliott Ryser, MSU. Transfer of Listeria monocytogens during slicing of delicatessen meats. Rm 163 FS&T,
sponsored by Natl. Food Safety & Tox. Ctr.
4:00
John Biernbaum. Lessons from student organic farm. 304 Bessey sponsored by Sustainable Campus.
4:00
Jian Duan, Monsanto Corp. Ecological risk assessment for genetically modified plants: learning from
transgenic Bt crops. 244 Nat. Sci., sponsored by Entomology & Environmental Sci & Policy.
4:10
David Ehrhard, Stanford U. Visualizing subcellular organization and dynamics in Arabidopsis. 1415 BPS,
sponsored by Plant Biol. & Plant Res.
Tuesday, Apl 6
10:00
Barbara Halkier, Royal Veterinary & Agricultural U, Denmark. Biosynthesis, regulation and transport of
glucosinolates. Rm 1279 Anthony Hall, Plant Science Initiative Faculty Candidate.
4:10
Randal Kaufman, U Michigan. Physiological role of unfolded protein response. Rm 1415 BPS, sponsored
by Micro. & Mol. Genetics.
Wednesday, Apl 7
3:30 Brian McGill. Do large scale spatial patterns explain local species? 247 Plant Biol., sponsored by Ecology,
Evolutionary Biol. & Behavior.
4:00
William Helferish, U Illinois. Dietary phytoestrogens and breast cancer: a complex issue. 1415 BPS,
sponsored by Food Sci & Human Nutr.
Thursday, Apl 8
11:30 Katie Dehesh, UC-Davis. Lipid homeostasis and plant development. 1415 BPS, sponsored by BMB.
11:30 Catherine Ross, Penn State U. Retinoid regulation of immune cell activation. 1420 BPS, sponsored by
Nutrition and Immunology.
Friday, Apl 9
11:30
Ned Wingreen, NEC Laboratories America Inc. E. coli division decision: modeling min-protein oscillations.
1400 BPS, sponsored by Phys. & Astron.
We are very proud of our BMB undergraduates. They are outstanding and now they are getting some
of the recognition they deserve. James Doroghazi (no photo available) was selected to receive a 2004
Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the American Society for Microbiology and also won funds towards
travel expenses to the 2005 ASM General Meeting in Atlanta. James is in the Triezenberg lab.
Nathan Lord (with Steve
Triezenberg whose lab he
works in) won a Barry M.
Goldwater Scholarship. One
of only 350 in the nation to
do so.
Bhooma Aravamuthan (from
the Burton Lab) also a recipient
of the Barry Goldwater
Scholarship.
Sze-ling Ng (from Kuo
lab)was an honorable
mention for the Goldwater
Scholarship.
POSITIONS
The U Wisconsin-Madison has a position in the Dept. of Nutritional Sciences. This postdoctoral position is
funded by the NIH Training Grant Program in Molecular and Applied Nutrition. Areas are molecular and
applied nutrition; regulation of gene expression and signal transduction development and aging; nutritional
basis of disease; nutritional epidemiology; and nutritional toxicology. See the folder on the door of 402 BCH
for more information.
Last Week: MP has been with the department
for almost 1/4 century, is married with children.
MP enjoys reading, sewing, and hiking. MP has
studied herbs and molecular biology diagnostics.
MP once worked as a concession manager at the
old Tiger Stadium. MP=Joyce Robinson
This Week: MP has been with the department for
approximately 20 years is married and has 2 children. MP is
assistant scout master for one of the children which takes MP
into the woods and camps. MP enjoys hiking and canoeing. MP
has canoed the boundry waters many times and seen moose up
close. Once MP and a few other friends planned a canoe trip
and split the duties for preparation. The person in charge of
bringing the food for the group for the week misunderstood and
only brought food for one person/one week. This was
discovered one full day into the trip. They all survived as the
fishing was good that year. Who is MP???
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. –
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)