OHSU Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

12/27/2018

11/07/2018

10/08/2018

Haley Licon, one of BMB's graduate students, won the "best technique award" for her poster at the PMCB retreat last month. The title was "Post-transcriptional regulation of the NT3 purine nucleobase transporter is mediated by a repressive stem loop in the NT3 3' mRNA untranslated region during the Leishmania donovani purine stress response." Congratulations, Haley!

09/27/2018

Using single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, investigators Sigrid Noreng and Rich Posert, BMB graduate students in the Baconguis lab, published the first visual representation of a protein connected to several diseases. Check out the article in OHSU Research News!

https://blogs.ohsu.edu/researchnews/2018/09/25/baconguis-lab-publishes-first-visual-representation-of-a-protein-connected-to-several-diseases/

New research for the first time reveals the three-dimensional structure of a membrane channel that is connected to many diseases and is critical in controlling blood pressure. The epithelial sodium…

09/10/2018

Rebecca E. Cooney, PhD, North American Executive Editor of The Lancet, will present on gender bias in academic publishing on Wednesday, 9/19 from 9:00 - 10:00 AM in Vey Auditorium.

https://blogs.ohsu.edu/researchnews/2018/09/07/seminar-and-discussion-gender-bias-in-academic-publishing-rebecca-cooney-the-lancet-sept-19/

Department of Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds: Gender Bias in Academic Publishing Wednesday, Sept. 19, 9 to 10 a.m. Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Vey Auditorium, 11th floor Panel discussion: The …

08/23/2018

Please join us in congratulating David Farrens on his recent promotion to Professor. He was one of 120 faculty members from 25 of the School of Medicine's 27 departments, and one of only 24 to be promoted to Professor. Congratulations, Dave! You can read more about it here.

https://o2.ohsu.edu/blogs/insidesom/2018/07/17/congratulate-120-of-your-colleagues-recognized-in-promotion-and-appointment-process/

08/23/2018

Check out this fun and informative interview with Greg Martin (Shyng Lab), Eric Gouaux (affiliate BMB faculty member and Senior Scientist in the Vollum Institute) and Craig Yoshioka (Gray Lab, OCSSB) on OPB, in which they discuss the new $128M NIH grant to build four new cryo-electron microscopes here at OHSU. This grant is poised to make the university into a nationally recognized imaging center - one of only three in the country - when the microscopes are installed this fall.

https://www.opb.org/news/article/ohsu-microscopes-image-molecules/

The National Institutes of Health is paying $128 million to build three new cryo-electron microscope centers around the country.

08/23/2018

Congratulations to Raj Shah, BMB Grants & Contracts Coordinator, for his selection as an associate trainer with the OHSU Unconscious Bias campus-wide initiative. Raj will participate in a week-long training process in August and then will be responsible for leading unconscious bias trainings all over campus over the next year.

Read more about the program below.

https://o2.ohsu.edu/diversity-and-inclusion/unconscious-bias-initiative/index.cfm

08/23/2018

Congratulations to Greg Martin (Shyng lab), recent BMB Ph.D. graduate, on receiving the John A. Resko Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award! This award recognizes outstanding contributions to biomedical research in the School of Medicine, and was awarded to Greg for his dissertation entitled, "Elucidating the structure of the pancreatic ATP-sensitive potassium channel by single particle cryoelectron microscopy." In addition to this award, he also earned the Outstanding Journal Article Award.

https://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/news-and-events/honors2018.cfm

The OHSU School of Medicine came together Saturday morning, June 2 to recognize the hundreds of moments throughout the academic year that add up to teaching, learning and service excellence.

03/22/2018

We just wrapped up recruitment week with a jointly hosted event between the BMB and PMCB departments. Several prospective graduate students were treated to a dinner at Dr. Show-Ling Shyng's home. Looks like a great time!

06/23/2017

Congratulations to Dr. Matt Thayer for his recent selection for the John A. Resko Faculty Excellence in Research and Mentoring Award. Dr. Thayer was awarded the honor during the 2017 Graduate Studies Honors and Awards ceremony held on Saturday, June 3. The Resko Award is given to a SoM Graduate Faculty member who has a sustained record of high quality research as well as a strong record of mentoring graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows in their laboratories and subsequent careers. Well-deserved Dr. Thayer!

https://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/news-and-events/honors2017.cfm

The OHSU School of Medicine came together Saturday morning, June 3 to recognize the striving, accomplishment, teaching and service that defines academic excellence.

06/05/2017

BMB graduate student Greg Martin was recently featured by OHSU In the Lab regarding his recent breakthrough on a new structure linked to insulin secretion. Congrats Greg!

https://o2.ohsu.edu/blogs/staffnews/2017/06/01/in-the-lab-greg-martin/

04/25/2016

Recently, Maureen Hoatlin, PhD, MBA, made a presentation at the Center for Precision Diagnostics, University of Washington, entitled, “Rare Variants and Outlier Phenotypes: Drug Discovery’s Crystal Ball.” Her talk touched upon how rare diseases can indicate good drug targets and eliminate bad targets. Dr. Hoatlin’s presentation was in one of several programs at UW to train graduate and medical students in drug discovery and development, designed to allow basic scientists better options to meet emerging demands in the workplace.

For more news coming out of the Hoatlin Lab, check out their Twitter account at: https://twitter.com/hoatlinlab

02/01/2016

Check out this article from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Blog, featuring Dr. Skach (courtesy of the Skach Lab): NIH Research Forms Basis for Advances in CF Treatment.

As Congress weighs budget appropriations, we look at long-term funding for the National Institutes of Health. We decided to sit down with the Foundation’s senior vice president of research affairs to learn more about why the work being done at NIH is so important in the search for a cure for CF and…

01/20/2016

Just a little insight into what we do & who we are here at the Oregon Health and Science University.

We do things differently here, including research. Oregon Health & Science University scientists share their enthusiasm for biomedical research and for life ...

10/01/2014