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Saturday, May 21, 2005

UTMB Structural Biology Symposium Features Dr. Karplus as Keynote Speaker

This years structure biology symposium held at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Texas was kicked off by a talk from Dr. Martin Karplus. Dr. Karplus is famous for many things, the one in which I am most familiar is the Karplus equation, J=A+Bcos(dihedral)+Ccos2(dihedral) for J-coupling in NMR spectroscopy. Scalar J coupling in through bond interactions between spin 1/2 nuclei. I also noticed that Dr. Karplus was not centered only around his science but took a keen interest in the research done and presented in the graduate student poster contest. I also admired his balance in life as I watched him walk through the rose garden just below the dining room in Levin Hall. I am also trying to balance all the parts of my life. A wonderful wife, kids, exercise, and research all fill up my time, but I also like to leave some for music, reading, and writing (Note my last post on how little writing I have been doing!).






Many other great speakers also shared areas to new progress. Dr. Bill Goddard, III has a great library of theoretical structures of G-Protein Coupled Receptors that are predicting binding site and gross activity in blind tests. As these results are validated, the payoff in drug design is immense. Dr. Tom Ellenberger presented results that showed a result for DNA repair the involved two conformations of the same domain for activity. The morph movie that he showed reminded me of a robot on an assembly line.


This year the symposium also choose three of the best abstracts from the poster competition for presentation. I enjoyed that very much and hope that do that again next year.

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Sigma Xi

Both Mehmet and I presented posters at the Sigma Xi poster competition.


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Friday, May 13, 2005

Swish, The Semester is Gone!

Wow, I have hardly written an entry over the last two semesters, and I can barely catch my breath, .... but today is the last day of the semester. There is a lot of catching up, if you have been following my blog (probably it is not on you short cuts lists anymore, as there have been so few updates). but I will try to give some highlights over the next few days. First of all, my son is now seven months old. You can go the Sea to Shining Sea to catch up on the family. Anyway, I finished my paper and submitted it back at the beginning of the semester. A number of MATLAB and Perl script were written to rotate my library components. I also learned a great amount this semester from my classes in membranes, signal transduction, and advanced nucleic acids. I have a lot of catching up with other people in the program because my background as an undergraduate was aerospace engineering not biology or chemistry. On the other hand, I am like a kid in a candy shop, seeing every new! Below, is Dr. Legge and myself finishing up the paper with the help of Jacob!


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