Notables

Of note

Dewey Holten, PhD, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, and Christine R. Kirmaier, PhD, research associate professor of chemistry, have received a five-year, $894,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Primary Electron Transfer Processes in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers.” …

Jason C. Mills, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of developmental biology, has received a two-year, $100,000 grant from the American Gastroenterological Association Foundation’s R. Robert & Sally D. Funderburg Research Scholar Award in Gastric Biology Related to Cancer for research titled “The Role of Mucous Neck Cells in Gastric Cancer.” …

Yinjie Tang, PhD, assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a five-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Development of 13C-Assisted Metabolic Flux Analysis Tools for Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria.” …

Herbert W. Virgin, MD, PhD, the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and chair of Pathology and Immunology, director and principal investigator of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, and professor of molecular microbiology and of medicine, and Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of developmental biology, have received a five-year, $1,900,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Susceptibility of Gene-Virus Interactions in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.”

Speaking of

Pier Marton, senior lecturer in Film and Media Studies in Arts & Sciences, took part in a panel discussion about the documentary film The Horse Boy at the Missouri History Museum April 8 as part of the museum’s Community Cinema Series. The film chronicles the attempts of one family to deal with their son’s autism.