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Seminars:
Thursday, April 29, 2009
12:00 pm, CMG Auditorium
Lester Lau, PhD
UIC
Extracellular Matrix Signaling in Inflammation and Cancer

Tuesday, May 11, 2009
12:00 pm, Leichtag Bldg, Room 107
C. Ronald Kahn, MD
Harvard
Developmental Heterogeneity of Adipose Tissue and Its Impact on Metabolism

Department News:

March 10, 2010
Dr. Michael Karin is featured in 2 articles about hormone resistant prostate tumors
-US News and World Reports
-Business Week

March 5, 2010
Dr. Michael Karin (with Mark Ellisman) has a new high profile paper published in, and featured on the cover of, Science showing that sestrin, a protein whose expression is turned on by stress, delays the onset of age-related pathologies.
-Perspective
-Sestrin as a Feedback Inhibitor of TOR That Prevents Age-Related Pathologies

Dr. Susan Taylor Elected to National Academy of Sciences Governing Council

March 1, 2010
Dr. Roger Tsien is featured in Technology Review
Multipurpose molecule for cancer surgery

February 19, 2010
Dr. Kun-Liang Guan and collaborators have discovered and published in Science that widespread acetylation of metabolic enzymes, suggesting that this protein modification may be as important as phosphorylation in controlling cell function.
-Perspective
-Regulation of Cellular Metabolism by Protein Lysine Acetylation
-Acetylation of Metabolic Enzymes Coordiantes Carbon Source Utilization and Metabolic Flux


December 9, 2009
Congratulations James Halpert on receiving the prestigious Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism for 2010

November 3, 2009
Susan Taylor was awarded the FASEB 2010 Excellence in Science Award

October 16, 2009
Susan Taylor awarded Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science

September 24, 2009
Sylvia Evans receives a 2009 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program

September 18, 2009
J. Craig Venter receives the 2008 National Medal of Science - President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators

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