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Volume 14, No.2 May 2001
Congratulations!
Maureen Harrington has been elected as President-Elect by the School of Medicine Faculty. Her term as President-Elect is for July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002; then her term as President is for July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003.
Peter J. Roach was awarded a Competing Continuation of his NIH grant on “Glycogen Me- tabolism & Signal Transduction in Yeast”
Mark Kelley has been selected for membership on the Neuro- science Center Director Search Committee, the Pharmacology and Toxicology Chair Search Com- mittee, and the IUSM Biomedical Research Committee. Mark is going to be a busy man!
Jeff Elmendorf received a grant from ADA for "Regulation of GLUT4 Trafficking by a Novel Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase- Independent/Tyrosine Kinase- Dependent Signal".
Mark Deeg received a grant from ADA for "GPI-Phospholi- pase D in Beta Cell Function".
John Hawes has been awarded a shared instrumentation grant from NIH/NCRR entitled "Expansion of DNA Sequencing Capacity at Indiana University School of Medicine". This award will provide funds for the purchase of a new capillary-based DNA se- quencer and a robotic system for high through-put DNA purifica- tion.
Anna A. DePaoli-Roach has been elected to the Faculty Promotions & Tenure Committee.
Simon J. Atkinson and Mark R.
Kelley have ben elected to the Biomedical Research Committee.
Congratulations to Dr. Ariel Castro, who accepted an Assis- tant Scientist position in the Dept.
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology effective May 1, 2001.
We just received notice that our USDE grant application for a GAANN Award (Graduate Assis- tance in Areas of National Need) will be funded with a start date of 7/1/01. This award will provide support for 4 students. Congratula- tions to Maureen Harrington and Mark Goebl on this accom- plishment, with thanks to Ed Harper for his guidance and input in the application process.
Joyce Hurley received an award from the National Headache Foundation for her application
"Interactions between calcium channels and serotonin recep- tors in migraine".
Rose Fife, M.D. has been named associate dean for research at IUSM.
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Mondays 4 pm, MS 326 ondays 4 pm, MS 326 ondays 4 pm, MS 326 ondays 4 pm, MS 326 ondays 4 pm, MS 326
Postdoctoral Seminars, Alternate Thursdays, 12 noon; MS A506/A518
Other Seminars of Interest
Biochemistry Student Seminars Wednesdays, 12 Noon, MSA506
Important Dates
5/13 Commencement 5/13 Mother’s Day 5/28MEMORIAL DAY 6/1 NIH New Research, Committed Continuations 6/15 American Heart Assn 7/1 NIH Competing Contin 10/1 NIH New Research, Committed Continuations 11/1 NIH Competing Contin 1/22 THANKSGIVING 12/25 CHRISTMAS
Dean’s Office Deadlines - June
Dean’s Office Deadlines - May
5/21 NIH New Research, Committed Continuations
May Seminars
5/10 Sue Brutkiewicz
A Mutated p27Kip1 and Cell Growth Inhibition
5/24 Xiaodong Peng
Adapter protein regulation of ITAM signaling through PI-3 kinase signal- ing pathway
5/2 12:00 noon Regulation of Membrane Phospholipid Organi- zation by Flippases. David L.
Daleke, Ph.D., Medical Sciences, Center for Medical Education;
Bloomington. Medical Science 326.
5.2 4:00 p.m. Redox Regula- tion of Human Melanoma Growth.
Frank Meyskens, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.P., Director, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California Irvine;
Irvine, CA. Cancer Research Institute [R4] Auditorium 101.
5/3 12:00 noon Intracellular Trafficking of Adeno-Associated Virus 2. Jonathan Hansen, Ph.D.
Candidate, Dept. of Microbiology/
Immunology; IUSM. Medical Science 326.
5/3 4:00 p.m. Alteration of DNA Repair Proteins as a Mecha- nism of Radiosensitization by Heat-Shock. Joseph R. Dynlacht, Ph.D., Dept. of Radiation Oncol- ogy; IUSM. Medical Science 326.
5/8 12:00 noon Mechanism of Action and Immunosuppressive Impact of Rapamune. Jacek J.
Hawiger, M.D., Ph.D., Oswald T.
Avery Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Microbiology/ Immunol- ogy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Nashville, TN.
Medical Science B26.
5/17 4:00 p.m. Transcriptional Repression by the Oncoprotein BCL-6. Vivian Bardwell, Ph.D.,
5/2 Boli Huang
and Development and Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Medical School; Minneapolis, MN.
Medical Science 326.
5/30 4:00 p.m. Lipid Domains, Rafts, and Cell Motility.
Frederick R. Maxfield, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Biochemistry and Structural Biology Program, Cornell University Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences; New York, NY. Cancer Research Institute [R4] Audito- rium 101.
Dept. of Genetics, Cell Biology
6/6 American Heart Associa- tion (National)
5/7 Dr. Michelle Kelliher, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbi- ology, Program in Immunology/
Virology, University of Massachu- setts Medical Center, Worchester, MA. “Signal Transduction Pathways Mediated by the Death Domain Kinase RIP”
5/14 Dr. David Williams, Associate Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Frieda and Albrecht Kipp Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, IUSM:
“Hematopoietic-specific Rho GTPase, Rac2, in blood cell survival and function in mice and men”
5/16 Ying Jiang, Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, IUSM “Regu- lation of Mammalian Diacy- lglycerol Kinase alpha” 2:00 p.m.
May Birthdays
5/3 Li Yu 5/4 Ed Harper 5/17 Gregory Titus 5/20 Dave Allmann
The selection committeefocused on those faculty members with extensive and highly accom- plished careers in the university.
Howard was chosen because he is considered to be a "complete scholar," whose career of exem- plary contributions to his discipline and the university have distin- guished him from his colleagues.
His selection recognizes his long- standing, continuous commitment to excellence in each of the major areas of university work: research, teaching, and service.
The 2000 convocation marked the first year for the Chancellor's Professor awards, which honor extensive accomplish- ments by senior faculty who have been at IUPUI for at least 10 years. The three recipients of the 2000 award, including Peter Roach, were the first recipients of this award, making them mentors for colleagues and resources for faculty development, student learning and professional research and service.
Howard Edenberg was awarded Chancellor's Professor last week, Friday evening, 4/27 at the Honors Convocation.
Mr. Oun Kheav joined the technical staff of the BBF.
There will be a reception on Friday,
May 4 at 3 p.m.
to acknowledge Howard Edenberg
as Chancellor's Professor and to acknowledge Anna DePaoli- Roach for receiving the Trustee's Teaching
Award.
The reception will be held on the 4th floor
atrium outside the Biochem office.
Howard Edenberg Honored
Robertson, K.A., Bullock, H.A., Xu, Y., Tritt, R., Zimmerman, E., Ulbright, T.M., Foster, R.S., Einhorn, L.H. and Kelley, M.R.
(2001) Altered expression of Ape1/ref-1 in germ cell tumors and over-expression in NT2 cells confers resistance to bleomycin and radiation. Cancer Res 61(5):2220-2225.
Kelley, M.R., Cheng, L., Foster, R., Tritt, R., Broshears, J., and Koch, M. (2001) Elevated and altered expression of the multi- functional DNA base excision repair and redox enzyme Ape1/ref- 1 in prostate cancer. Clin Cancer Res.7(4):824-830
