Stuff to write home 'bout...
2010
- July 2010:
- Congratulations to grad student Peter
Randolph on being accepted to, and attending, the TBCG's "Hands-On" Workshop on Computational Biophysics in San Diego.
- Congratulations to grad student Marcin
Cieslik on having his work accepted for a presentation at
the ISMB2010
bioinformatics meeting in Boston.
- June 2010: New website is live for our
Structural biology, Computational
biology, & Molecular biophysics ('SbCbMb')
supergroup; check it out at http://wiki.chem.virginia.edu/SbCbMb.
- May 2010:
- Congratulations to grad student Tomek
Kabzinski on completing his qualifying exams and advancing to candidacy.
- Congratulations to undergraduate Colin
McCrimmon on receiving the Department of
Chemistry's Hugh Miller Spencer Scholarship Award. Colin, who
graduates with dual majors in Chemistry and Biology this month, will
begin MD/PhD studies at UC Irvine next Fall.
- 30 April 2010: Congratulations to
undergraduate Colin McCrimmon on successfully defending his thesis as part of the
Distinguished Majors Program.
- March 2010: Congratulations to research
scientist Thien Nguyen on a successful graduate school application
process — Admitted to a number of programs, Thien will begin her PhD
studies in biochemistry at UC San Diego next Fall.
- January 2010:
- Welcome to two new graduate
students, Jennifer Patterson & Peter Randolph, who have
just joined the lab.
- The Mura Lab receives, and
gratefully acknowledges, a funding award from the Jeffress Memorial Trust.
2009
- Aug-2009: Congratulations to
graduate student Marcin Cieślik on having his work invited for presentation at the Eight Annual Python in Science Conference (SciPy09) at CalTech.
- Jul-2009: Congratulations to undergraduate
Colin McCrimmon on receiving not one, but
two, awards for his poster presentation "Investigation into the
Cause of Disparate Macromolecular Space Group Frequencies" at the
2009 Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA).
Colin received the IUCr Poster Prize and the American Institute
of Physics Undergraduate Research Prize; more about these is at
CINS, an ACA site, and at UVa Today.
- Jun-2009: A sincere welcome to
Thien Nguyen, who just recently graduated from UVa with a BS in
Biochemistry, and who will begin a research position in the lab this month.
- Apr-2009: Congratulations to recent
undergraduate Ravi Sood on being admitted to graduate school. Ravi
will begin PhD studies in computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI) in Fall 2009.
- March 2009: Congratulations to
undergraduate Colin McCrimmon on receiving a travel award for
the 2009 American Crystallographic Association (ACA) Annual Meeting
this Summer in Toronto, Canada. Colin will present his analyses of
protein crystal space groups.
- March 2009:
Congratulations to undergraduate Colin McCrimmon on receiving a
2009–2010 Harrison Undergraduate Research Award from UVa.
- March 2009:
Congratulations to undergraduate Sarah Ebmeier on receiving the NIH's
Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA), funding a two-year research stint in
Bethesda. Sarah graduates with a BS in Biochemistry this Spring and
will begin at NIH in July.
- January 2009: A sincere welcome to the first two graduate students to join the lab – Marcin Cieślik & Tomek Kabziński.
2008
- Fall 2008: Mura Lab 0th
birthday
- May 2008: Congratulations
to undergraduate Colin McCrimmon, who was awarded a Bass
Scholarship from the UVa Department of Chemistry for Summer research, and
to Arjun Dayal, who has received a Departmental Fellowship for Summer
research.