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Katherine Luzuriaga named one of TIME magazine’s TIME 100
TIME’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world - link to article Eduardo Torres Named 2013 Searle Scholar
FIFTEEN SEARLE SCHOLARS NAMED FOR 2013
April 3, 2013: Chicago, Illinois - Fifteen researchers in the chemical and biological sciences have been named as the 2013 Searle Scholars. Each will be awarded $300,000 to support his or her work during the next three years. (Full Article)
(Youtube Interview) Researchers describe first 'functional HIV cure' in an infant A team of researchers from UMMS, Johns Hopkins and the University of Mississippi have reported the first case of a so-called “functional cure” in an HIV-infected infant, which may help pave the way for eliminating HIV infection in children. (Full Article)
Bitter taste receptors in airway cells could help treat asthma attacks UMMS research answers why substances that give some foods their bitter flavor also act to reverse the contraction of airway cells. (Full Article)
Two Molecular Medicine Scientists honored by National Academy of Inventors
January, 9 2013
Roger Davis and Craig Mello were recently named as 2012 Charter Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The NAI recognized 101 top scientists, innovators, and leaders from the academic world for their exceptional achievements "in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society."
The newly elected class of Fellows is made up of inventors and innovators from 56 prestigious research universities and non-profit research institutes across the U.S. and around the world. All are named inventors on patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Collectively, they hold an impressive number of U.S. patents—over 3,200. Dr Robert Brown and Dr John Ware from UMMS were also named as Charter Fellows.
Included among the Fellows are eight Nobel Laureates, 14 presidents of research universities and non-profit research institutes, 53 members of the National Academies (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine), 11 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, two Fellows of the Royal Society, five recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, four recipients of the National Medal of Science, and 31 AAAS Fellows, among other major awards and distinctions.
Roger Davis elected a Fellow of AAASIn October, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Council elected Roger Davis, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, H. Arthur Smith Chair in Cancer Research and professor of molecular medicine and biochemistry & molecular pharmacology to the section on biological sciences. Fellows are nominated and selected by their peers for their meritorious efforts to advance science and its applications. The 701 fellows elected in 2012 will be recognized at the AAAS annual meeting in Boston in February. | Recent Molecular Medicine Publications
Gene silencing in adipose tissue macrophages regulates whole-body metabolism in obese mice.
Aouadi M, Tencerova M, Vangala P, Yawe JC, Nicoloro SM, Amano SU, Cohen JL, Czech MP.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Apr 29. Paper
A histone acetylation switch regulates H2A.Z deposition by the SWR-C remodeling enzyme.
Watanabe S, Radman-Livaja M, Rando OJ, Peterson CL.
Science. 2013 Apr 12;340(6129):195-9. Paper
CapSeq and CIP-TAP identify Pol II start sites and reveal capped small RNAs as C. elegans piRNA precursors.Gu W, Lee HC, Chaves D, Youngman EM, Pazour GJ, Conte D Jr, Mello CC.
Cell. 2012 Dec 21;151(7):1488-500. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.11.023.
PMID: 23260138 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Efficiency of bridging-sheet recruitment explains HIV-1 R5 envelope glycoprotein sensitivity to soluble CD4 and macrophage tropism. O'Connell O, Repik A, Reeves JD, Gonzalez-Perez MP, Quitadamo B, Anton ED, Duenas-Decamp M, Peters P, Lin R, Zolla-Pazner S, Corti D, Wallace A, Wang S, Kong XP, Lu S, Clapham PR.
J Virol. 2013 Jan;87(1):187-98. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01834-12. Epub 2012 Oct 10.
PMID: 23055568 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Paper HERV-H RNA is abundant in human embryonic stem cells and a precise marker for pluripotency.
Santoni FA, Guerra J, Luban J. Retrovirology. 2012 Dec 20;9(1):111. [Epub ahead of print] Paper A Synthetic Interaction Screen Identifies Factors Selectively Required for Proliferation and TERT Transcription in p53-Deficient Human Cancer Cells.
Xie L, Gazin C, Park SM, Zhu LJ, Debily MA, Kittler EL, Zapp ML, Lapointe D, Gobeil S, Virbasius CM, Green MR.
PLoS Genet. 2012 Dec; Epub 2012 Dec 20. Paper
β3-adrenergic receptor stimulation induces E-selectin-mediated adipose tissue inflammation. Roth Flach RJ, Matevossian A, Akie TE, Negrin KA, Paul MT, Czech MP. J Biol Chem. 2012 Dec 12 Paper
Translational control of mitochondrial energy production mediates neuron morphogenesis.
Oruganty-Das A, Ng T, Udagawa T, Goh EL, Richter JD. Cell Metab. 2012 Dec 12 Paper
JNK Expression by Macrophages Promotes Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance and Inflammation.
Han MS, Jung DY, Morel C, Lakhani SA, Kim JK, Flavell RA, Davis RJ. Science. 2012 Dec 6 Paper
Specific miRNA Stabilization by Gld2-Catalyzed Monoadenylation.
D'Ambrogio A, Gu W, Udagawa T, Mello CC, Richter JD.
Cell Rep. 2012 Nov 28. doi:pii: S2211-1247. Paper
Identification of Map4k4 as a novel suppressor of skeletal muscle differentiation. Wang M, Amano SU, Roth Flach RJ, Chawla A, Aouadi M, Czech MP.
Mol Cell Biol. 2012 Dec 3. [Epub ahead of print] Paper
An MBoC Favorite: Role of GTP hydrolysis in microtubule dynamics: information from a slowly hydrolyzable analogue, GMPCPP. Chen CT, Doxsey SJ.
Mol Biol Cell. 2012 Oct;23(19):3775. Paper
PTEN loss in the Myf5 lineage redistributes body fat and reveals subsets of white adipocytes that arise from Myf5 precursors. Sanchez-Gurmaches J, Hung CM, Sparks CA, Tang Y, Li H, Guertin DA.
Cell Metab. 2012 Sep 5;16(3):348-62. Paper Transcription factor ATF5 is required for terminal differentiation and survival of olfactory sensory neurons. Wang SZ, Ou J, Zhu LJ, Green MR.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Oct 22. Paper
An Unusual Two Step Control of CPEB Destruction by Pin1. Nechama M, Lin CL, Richter JD. Paper
Mol Cell Biol. 2012 Oct 22.
JNK and PTEN cooperatively control the development of invasive adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
Hübner A, Mulholland DJ, Standen CL, Karasarides M, Cavanagh-Kyros J, Barrett T, Chi H, Greiner DL, Tournier C, Sawyers CL, Flavell RA, Wu H, Davis RJ.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jul 24;109(30):12046-51. Paper
More | Molecular Medicine Awards More Welcome to Molecular Medicine...
Dr. Jeremy Luban joins the Program in Molecular Medicine Faculty Drs. Amy Walker, Rene Maehr, Manuel Garber and Eduardo Torres. Dr Juleen R. Zierath joins Molecular Medicine as Adjunct Professor
Juleen R. Zierath is presently Professor of Clinical Integrative Physiology and Head of the Section of Integrative Physiology at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery and the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden, where she is Director of the The Strategic Research Programme in Diabetes. She is also Professor of Integrative Physiology at University of Copenhagen, where she is a Scientific Director at the Marie Krogh Center for Metabolic Research, Copenhagen Denmark. |