Barnes named Packard Fellow
Jonathan Barnes, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was among 18 leading young researchers across the United States honored Oct. 16 as a 2017 Packard Fellow.
Blankenship wins 2015 Midwest Award from American Chemical Society
Robert Blankenship, PhD, the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society’s 2015 Midwest Award.
Hayes wins American Chemical Society’s 2015 Saint Louis Award
Sophia Hayes, PhD, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington
University in St. Louis, has won the American Chemical Society St. Louis Section’s 2015 Saint Louis Award.
Scientist Patti receives teacher-scholar award
Gary Patti, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been recognized with a 2015 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for his contributions to metabolomics at the bench and in the classroom.
Student wins grant to attend chemical education meeting
Erica Majumder, a graduate student in chemistry, won a travel grant from the American Chemical Society International Office to attend the International Symposium in Chemical Education Research in Lima, Peru, in October.
From the provost: Lab safety — going beyond compliance to a positive culture
H. Holden Thorp, PhD, provost of Washington University in St. Louis, led a National Research Council committee that published a report July 31 on lab safety in academic research. He says the most important takeway is that a holistic approach is needed.
Slaying bacteria with their own weapons
A novel antibiotic delivery system would exploit small molecules called siderophores that bacteria secrete to scavenge for iron in their environments. Each bacterium has its own system of siderophores, which it pumps across its cell membrane
before releasing the iron the siderophores hold. If an antibiotic were linked to one of these scavenger molecules, it would be converted into a tiny Trojan horse that would smuggle antibiotics inside a bacterium’s cell membrane.
2014 Leopold Marcus lecture by Nobel laureate
Roger Tsien, one of three chemists who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein, will give the Leopold Marcus lecture at Washington University in
St. Louis. His talk, “Fluorescent Molecules for Fun and Profit,” is intended for a general audience and will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, in the Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300. The talk is free and open to the public.
National Academy of Inventors elects Chancellor Wrighton as Fellow
Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and the holder of 16 patents, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He will be inducted during the academy’s annual conference in March.
A chance to explore the hottest research topic in St. Louis
The International Society of Photosynthesis
Research, meeting this August in St. Louis, is offering an afternoon of
talks and demonstrations about the original “green” chemistry invented
by bacteria and plants and its relevance to our energy future. Intended for teachers, students and the public, “Photosynthesis in
our Lives” will take place from 3- 5 p.m. the afternoon of Sunday,
August 11, 2013 in the Parkview room at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch. RSVP to: http://parc.wustl.edu/outreachRSVP by August 7, 2013.
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