Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar

Mechel Desjardings, Ph.D.
Canadian Chair in Cellular Microbilogy
Universite de Montreal

"ER-mediated phagocytosis: more than evER"

Monday, May 16th, 2005
4:00 P.M.
Weill Auditorium

Anna Mulgrew, a graduate student in the laboratory of Diana Murray, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. These awards are very prestigious and will cover Anna's stipend and tuition for the next three years. Of 900 awards made, only eight went to computational biologists, and additionally Anna is the only student from Weill Medical College to receive an NSF award this year. Anna belongs to the Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Program and her thesis describes the membrane association of phosphoinositide modifying enzymes.

Olga Steinberg-Neifach, a post doctoral associate in the laboratory of Neal Lue, has been granted a Scholar-in-Training Award and invited to speak at an upcoming AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Special Conference on "The Role of Telomeres and Telomerase in Cancer" , to be held in San Francisco from Nov. 3 through 7. She will be presenting a paper entitled "Telomere protection by telomerase components in Candida albicans". Her work illustrates the importance and utility of using model systems to gain understanding of fundamental cellular processes that became disrupted in human diseases.