Past Events

MBD Research Day 2009

The fifth annual MBD Research Day was held on Friday, May 22nd 2009 at the Georgia State Student Center ball room. The Key Note Address was “Computational Approaches to Accelerate Drug Discovery” presented by Dr. William J. Welsh, Norman H. Edelman Professor in Bioinformatics and Molecular Design Department of Pharmacology Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Director, Informatics Institute of UMDNJ University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. 

Research Day Photo Album

MBD Fellow oral presentations were given by: 

  • Bin Fang, Guoxing Fu, Johnson Agniswamy, Robert W. Harrison and Irene Weber “Structural basis of substrate specificity of caspase-3 at S4 and S5 revealed by crystallography and kinetic study” (First place winner) 

  • Goksel Durkaya, Lei Zhong, Vincent Rehder and Nikolaus Dietz  "Surface Morphological Studies on Nerve Cells by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)" 

  • Shirlene Jackson Beckford and Dabney Dixon  “Anthraquinone-DNA Binding: A Look at Entropy” (Second place winner) 

  • Mughda Vasireddi and Julia Hilliard  “Regulation of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class-I Expression in B Virus Infection in HFF Cells” 

  • Amrita M. Nargund and John E. Houghton "Metal induced apoptosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" (Third place winner) 

  • Catharine Collar, Binh Nguyen, Moses Lee, W. and David Wilson “How to Communicate with DNA: Biophysical and Computational Studies of Polyamide-DNA Complex Interactions” 

  • Kelly Westbrooks, Irina Astrovskaya, David Campo Rendon, Yury Khudyakov, Piotr Berman and Alex Zelikovsky   "HCV Quasispecies Assembly using Flow Networks” 

Over 60 MBD posters were also presented and the following posters were awarded prizes for their presentations:

  • Michael Kirbergerfrom from Dr. Jenny J. Yang’s lab in the Department of Chemistry received 1st place for his poster presentation, “Allosteric Pb2+-Binding with Calmodulin: A Molecular Basis for Metal Toxicity”

  • Agnieszka D. Truax, from Dr. Susanna F. Greer’s lab in the Department of Biology received 1st place for her poster presentation “The 19S ATPase S6a Regulates Expression of the Critical Immunoprotein, CIITA: Potential Applications in Cancer Therapy” 

  • Kavita Bhat from Dr. Susanna Greer’s lab in the Department of Biology received 1st place for her poster presentation, “What Can Brown Do For You? The Many Roles of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System (UPS) and Monoubiquitination in Regulating Mammalian Transcription”

  • Sarah Spencer from Dr. Zhen Huang’s lab in the Department of Chemistry received 2nd Place recognition for her poster "Development of RNA Microchip for Detection of Pathogens" 

  • Xueliang Gao, from Zhi-Ren Liu’s lab in the Department of Biology received 2nd place recognition for his poster entitled "p68 Regulates Glycolysis Activity by Binding to PKM2 " 

  • Olivia Koues, from Dr. Susanna Greer’s lab in the Department of Biology received 2nd Place recognition for her poster “The 19S Proteasome Positively Regulates the Chromatin Structure of Cytokine Inducible Genes”