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Jul 22, 2011
Zach was selected as the CoSM 2011 Top Scholars graduating seniors selected by the Dean's office. The Wright State Parents Association donates a book in each of their names, in their fields of study, to the Wright State Libraries' collections. This recognition program has been in existence since 1995.
Jul 22, 2011
Dr. Tosa has been nominated by her students for an excellence in teaching General Education award for her PHY106/7 classes.
Jul 7, 2011
Behzad Ghanbarian, a second-year ES Ph.D. student and his research director, Prof. Allen Hunt are organizing a symposium entitled "Complexity in Disordered Porous Media" at the EUROSOIL 2012 meeting in Italy from July 2-6. EUROSOIL is an international congress sponsored by the European Confederation of Soil Science Societies (ECSSS). Congratulations to Behzad and Prof. Hunt for their lead roles in organizing this symposium as part of the conference's Soil Hydrology theme.
Jun 25, 2011
Dr. Julian G. Cambronero was invited to present at a Gordon Research Conference on Phagocytes held at the Davidson College, in Davidson, N.C., June 19-24. The biannual 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Phagocytes will bring together experts and trainees from around the world to discuss the most recent advances in the field, with a view to better understand the biology and pathophysiology of neutrophils, macrophages, microglia,...
Jun 10, 2011
Dr. Michael Leffak's laboratory published in Nature Chemical Biology that probing trinucleotide repeat structures using engineered zinc-finger nucleases provides evidence that DNA hairpins form in vivo and are linked to replication-dependent genomic instability. Instability of (CTG)-(CAG) repeats in microsatellite DNA has been linked to numerous neurological diseases.
Jun 10, 2011
Dr. Julian G. Cambronero's laboratory has discovered that the enzyme phospholipase D2 (PLD2) binds directly to the small GTPase Rac2. This discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences represents the first report of a phospholipase enzyme harboring guanine nucleotide exchange (GEF) activity. Given that several human tumors exhibit elevated PLD2 levels this work suggest that this elevation may impact Rac2...
Jun 10, 2011
Dhawal Oswal (Dr. Hostetler's lab) was awarded an American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology travel award to attend the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, April 20-25, 2012, where he presented his work on "Fatty acids and their thioester derivatives as ligands for human PPARalpha."
Jun 10, 2011
Wright State University biomedical engineering student Aaron Shank had been accepted to one of the most prestigious...
Jun 6, 2011
Jeremy Heath, advised by John Stireman, was selected as the graduate excellence award nominee for the Environmental Sciences Ph.D. program for the 2010-2011 academic year. Jeremy is studying the evolutionary ecology of the interaction of goldenrod plants with a gall-forming midge. He has given presentations at several scientific conferences (including organizing a symposium) and published seven research papers in peer reviewed journals. Jeremy is highly creative and has excellent problem...
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