A summary of our student bloggers for the Protein Journal Club and their blogs for spring semester 2012

Christie Cade: PhD student who studies caspase activation and cancer drug development

 How hats, baby toys, and amber help us learn more about the nature vs. nurture debate

And: Scientist gives birth to T. Rex

 

Rashid Riboul: PBS student interested in protein structure and X-ray crystallography

Cellular motor city muscle: A small look at even smaller motors

 

 

Xun Lu: PhD student who studies transcription factors by X-ray crystallography

“Watch” lysozyme chopping bacterial cell wall

Joe Maciag: PhD student who studies caspase activation and allostery

Spring break for graduate students

And: The epigenetic crystal ball

Laura Edwards: PhD student who studies protein modifications by mass spectrometry

Sh*t graduate students say

And: Another reason to love mass spectrometry

Joe Magliocca: PhD student who studies virus assembly and vaccine development

Will Tamiflu save the world from avian flu?

Chunxiao Ma: PhD student who studies caspase assembly and activation
Finding biomarkers for human cancer: miRNA profiling

And: Using computer simulation to find hub proteins as biomarkers for human cancer

Laura Greeley: PhD student who studies replication of geminiviruses

Feeling the curves of biology: How the advances in atomic force microscopy are opening new techniques to microbiology

Fan Liu: PhD student who studies protein modifications by mass spectrometry

Discovering underneath a “MudPit”