News |
Suzannah Williams, a Postdoc in
Dr. Pamela Stanley’s lab has accepted a lecturer’s
position in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and
Genetics at the University of Oxford, London. The best
of luck, Suzannah!
June 18th, 2007 --
the Department of Cell Biology hosted a one-day
symposium honoring the scientific achievements of Dr.
Jonathan R. Warner, the Joseph & Gertrud Buchler Chair
in Translational Medicine in the Department of Cell
Biology and Chairman of the department from 1983 to1998.
After the opening remarks by Dean Allen Spiegel and Dr.
Arthur Skoultchi, the current Chairman of Cell Biology,
a number of distinguished guests reflected on Dr.
Warner’s seminal discoveries in the field of ribosomal
biogenesis as well as ongoing scientific pursuits in
their own laboratories: Dr. James Darnell, Rockefeller
University. "Four-plus decades of science and
friendship"; Dr. Elaine Elion, Harvard University.
"Tailoring mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades for
differentiation and survival"; Dr. Alexander Rich, MIT.
"The biology of proteins that bind to left-handed
Z-DNA"; Dr. Stephen Udem, International AIDS Vaccine
Initiative. "Vaccines: so much we now can do but too
damned scared to do it!"; Dr. Joan Steitz, Yale
University. "Regulatory RNPs: Altering outcomes in gene
expression"; Dr. Ke Shuai, UCLA. "Protein SUMO ligases
in the regulation of cytokine signaling and immunity";
Dr. Masayasu Nomura, University of California-Irvine
School of Medicine. "Transcription of rRNA by RNA
polymerase I is functionally coupled to rRNA processing
and ribosome assembly". The scientific program concluded
with a talk by Dr. Warner entitled “Ribosomes, RNA, and
Friends.”
Photo Gallery
May, 2007
-- Michael Papetti, a Postdoc in
Dr. Art Skoultchi’s lab and
a good friend and colleague to many students and
postdocs in this department, will move to his new
position as an instructor in the Department of Medicine
at Montefiore Hospital. The best of luck, Mike!
December 15, 2006
- Dr. Yuhong Fan, an Instructor from Dr. Arthur
Skoultchi's Lab will soon start at her new position as
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the
Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Let's wish
her GOOD LUCK and SUCCESS in her own lab!!
December 18, 2006 -
Dr. Margaret
Kielian is named a member of the Editorial Board of
Cell Host & Microbe, a new journal in the Cell Press
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New Ph. D |
April 22, 2008
- Lily Wu of Dr. Rick Kitsis' Lab successfully
defended her Ph.D. thesis. Our warmest
congratulations to Dr. Lily Wu and the Kitsis
laboratory.
September 20, 21, 2007
- Ja Young Kim and Zhao Wang of Dr. Philipp
Scherer's Lab successfully defended their Ph.D.
thesis. Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Ja Young
Kim, Dr. Zhao Wang and the Scherer laboratory.
September 17, 2007
- Yingfeng Deng of Dr. Robert Singer's Lab
successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Our warmest
congratulations to Dr. Yingfeng Deng and the Singer
laboratory.
November 6, 2006
-
Erhu Cao of Dr. Stanley
Nathenson's Lab successfully defended his Ph.D.
thesis. Our warmest
congratulations to Dr. Erhu Cao and the Nathenson
laboratory.
October 27, 2006
--
Lourdes Mendez of Dr. B. Hilda Ye's
Lab successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Our
warmest congratulations to Dr. Lourdes Mendez and
the Ye laboratory!”
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Awards |
December 18, 2007
-- Dr.
Charles Query, Associate
Professor of Department of Cell
Biology, was awarded an "Irma T.
Hirschl Career Scientist Award".
November
5, 2007 --
Dr. Stanley G. Nathenson,
Distinguished Professor of
Microbiology & Immunology, and
of Cell Biology, and Samuel H.
Golding Professor of
Microbiology, has been selected
as the recipient of the second
annual Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D.
Faculty Prize for Research
Excellence. The award ceremony
and lecture will take place on
Wednesday, January 16, 2008, at
4:00PM in the Robbins
Auditorium.
November
1, 2007 --
The Belfer
Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies recently held
a competition for the fourth annual Outstanding
Postdoctoral Research Scholar Prizes.
Dr.
Alexander Konev (laboratory
of Dr. Dmitry Fyodorov) and
Dr.
Yong-Zhen Xu (laboratory of
Dr. Charles Query) are among the
six winners to receive this prize. They will present
their award winning work at a ceremony on Monday,
December 3, 2007 at 3:00 pm in Robbins Auditorium.
October, 2007
-- Dr. Pamela Stanley was
appointed last October as a
permanent member of the
Intercellular Communications and
interactions (ICI) NIH study
section.
October 20, 2007 -- Dr.
Kerri McIntosh, a Post-doc in Jon Warner's lab, was
recently awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from NSERC,
the Canadian equivalent of the NSF.
Septemner 6, 2007 --
Laura Norwood, a
postdoctoral associate in Arthur Skoultchi's lab was
recently awarded an NIH fellowship.
May 30, 2007
-- Dr. Michael Keogh, Assistant
Professor of Department of Cell Biology, was awarded a
"New York Academy of Medicine Speakers Fund for
Biomedical Research award".
April 18, 2007
-- Dr. Dmitry Fyodorov,
Assistant Professor, received a "Scholar of the Sidney
Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research".
April 11, 2007 -- Dean
Allen Spiegel announced several endowed chairs for
distinguished AECOM faculty members. Among these,
Dr Pamela Stanley is the
recipient of a chair established by the Horace Goldsmith
Foundation. Dr. Eric Bouhassira
will occupy another chair in Stem Cell Biology
established by a generous gift from Ira and Ingeborg
Rennert. Cheers to both Pamela and Eric!
February 16, 2007 -- Erhu Cao, who recently defended his
PhD thesis and is now a postdoctoral associate in
Stanley Nathenson's lab, is one of the three recipients
of 2007 Julius Marmur Research Awards. He will present
his work at the 11th Annual Julius Marmur Symposium on
Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 9:30 am.
January 25, 2007
-- Dr. Rick Kitsis, Professor,
Departments of Cell Biology and Medicine, is being
chosen Chair of the
Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences of the American
Heart Association.
January 22, 2007 --
Dr. Matthew
Scharff, Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and
Medicine, has received the
Faculty Mentoring Award for Research Excellence. Awards
to be presented by Dean Allen Spiegel at Davidoff Day,
Tuesday,
January 30, 11:00AM, in the Riklis Auditorium
concert hall.
November 8, 2006 –
Dr. Belinda Ding, a Postdoctoral
associate in Dr. B. Hilda Ye’s
lab, is the recipient of a one
year fellowship grant from the Lauri Strauss Leukemia
Foundation.
October 16, 2006 --
Dr. Matthew
Scharff, professor of cell biology and the Harry
Eagle Professor of Cancer Research, has received the
first annual Marshall S. Horwitz, M.D. Faculty Prize for
Research Excellence.
He will present his inaugural lecture on Wednesday,
November 15, 2006, 4:00PM, in the Robbins Auditorium
concert hall.
February 16, 2006 --
Maofu Liao, a graduate student from
Dr. Margret Kielian's lab, was selected
for the 2006 Julius Marmur Research
Award.
Dr. Yuhong Fan,
Dr. Ziqiang Li and
Dr. Yuxun Wang received the second
annual Outstanding Postdoctoral
Research Scholar of the Belfer
Institute for Advanced Biomedical
Studies of year 2005.
September 10, 2005 --
Dr. Stanley G. Nathenson, Samuel H.
Golding Chair in Immunology and
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology/Cell Biology
was recently elected to become an honorary member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
May 2,
2005 --
Dr. Barbara Birshtein received the
Harry Eagle Award for Outstanding
Basic Science Teaching.
April
7, 2005 --
Dr. Philipp Scherer has been
named the 2005 recipient of the Outstanding Scientific
Achievement Award of the American Diabetes Association
(ADA). The award recognizes research in diabetes that
demonstrates particular independence of thought and
originality. It is the highest honor given by the
association and will be presented on June 13, at the
65th Annual Scientific Sessions of the ADA.
April 5, 2005
-- Utpal Pajvani, an MSTP student who carried out his
thesis work in the Scherer lab
studying adiponectin, is one of the four recipients of
the 2005 Julius Marmur Awards at AECOM.
Christina Medina, a PhD student in
Dr. Rick Kitsis' lab, who was
recently awarded a Ford Foundation
Diversity Fellowship.
October
16, 2003 -- (BRONX, NY) --
Dr. Matthew Scharff, professor
of cell biology and the Harry Eagle Professor of Cancer
Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
Yeshiva University, has received the City of New York's
highest honor for achievement in the biological and
medical sciences.
The award, known as the Mayor's Lifetime Achievement
Award for Excellence in Biological & Medical Sciences,
was presented to Dr. Scharff by Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg at a ceremony held at the Brooklyn Botanical
Gardens on Oct. 8.
January 12, 2003
-- Dr. Pamela Stanley received The Karl Meyer Award for Glycoconjugate
research
 and
International Glycoconjugate
Organization Award.
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New Faces |
On March 3, 2008,
Ms. Maria Chevere joins the Cell Biology Office as an
Administrative Assistant effective. Maria comes to us
from Berkley College.
In February 2006,
Dr. Ulrich Steidl joins the Department of Cell Biology
as an assistant professor.
On October 30, 2007, Alexis Huffman joins the Department
of Cell Biology as our new Facilities Manager.
Ms. Stephanie Velasquez was hired as Administrative
Assistant effective April 2, 2007.
Stephanie comes to us from the Department of Human
Resources.
Ms. Danielle Crane and Ms. Jacqueline DiDomenico will
join the administration staff on
April 16, 2007. Danielle is our new Assistant
Administrator replacing Diana Santanello.
In September 2006,
Dr. Michael-Christopher Keogh
joins the Department of Cell
Biology as an assistant professor.
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Top Notch Papers |
Ge C, Stanley P.
The O-fucose glycan in the ligand-binding domain of
Notch1 regulates embryogenesis and T cell
development.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Feb
5;105(5):1539-44.
Ding BB, Yu JJ, Yu RY, Mendez LM, Shaknovich R, Zhang Y,
Cattoretti G, Ye BH.
Constitutively activated STAT3 promotes cell
proliferation and survival in the activated B-cell
subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas. Blood.2008
Feb 1;111(3):1515-23.
Foo RS, Nam YJ, Ostreicher MJ, Metzl MD, Whelan RS, Peng
CF, Ashton AW, Fu W, Mani K, Chin SF, Provenzano E,
Ellis I, Figg N, Pinder S, Bennett MR, Caldas C, Kitsis
RN.
Regulation of p53 tetramerization and nuclear export by
ARC. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Dec
26;104(52):20826-31.
Xu, Y.-Z. and Query, C.C. (2007). Competition between
the ATPase Prp5 and branch region-U2 snRNA pairing
modulates the fidelity of spliceosome assembly.
Molecular Cell, 838-849.
Yan Q, Malashkevich VN, Fedorov A, Fedorov E, Cao E,
Lary JW, Cole JL, Nathenson SG, Almo SC. Structure of
CD84 provides insight into SLAM family function. Proc
Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jun 19;104(25):10583-8.
Ronai D, Iglesias-Ussel MD, Fan M, Li Z, Martin A,
Scharff MD. Detection of chromatin-associated
single-stranded DNA in regions targeted for somatic
hypermutation. J Exp Med. 2007 Jan 22;204(1):181-90.
Murga M, Jaco I, Fan Y, Soria R, Martinez-Pastor B,
Cuadrado M, Yang SM, Blasco MA, Skoultchi AI, Fernandez-Capetillo
O. Global chromatin compaction limits the strength of
the DNA damage response. J Cell Biol. 2007 Sep
24;178(7):1101-8.
Konev AY, Tribus M, Park SY, Podhraski V, Lim CY,
Emelyanov AV, Vershilova E, Pirrotta V, Kadonaga JT,
Lusser A, Fyodorov DV.
CHD1 motor protein is required for deposition of histone
variant H3.3 into chromatin in vivo.
Science. 2007 Aug 24;317(5841):1087-90.
Liu L, Query CC, Konarska MM.
Opposing classes of prp8 alleles modulate the transition
between the catalytic steps of pre-mRNA splicing.
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2007 Jun;14(6):519-26. Epub 2007
May 7.
Cao E, Ramagopal UA, Fedorov A, Fedorov E, Yan Q, Lary
JW, Cole JL, Nathenson SG, Almo SC.
NTB-A Receptor Crystal Structure: Insights into
Homophilic Interactions in the Signaling Lymphocytic
Activation Molecule Receptor Family.
Immunity. 2006 Oct;25(4):559-70.
Li Z, Zhao C, Iglesias-Ussel MD, Polonskaya Z, Zhuang M,
Yang G, Luo Z, Edelmann W, Scharff MD.
The mismatch repair protein Msh6 influences the in vivo
AID targeting to the Ig locus.
Immunity. 2006 Apr;24(4):393-403.
Konarska MM, Vilardell J, Query CC.
Repositioning of the reaction intermediate within the
catalytic center of the spliceosome.
Mol Cell. 2006 Feb 17;21(4):543-53.
Fan Y, Nikitina T, Zhao J, Fleury TJ, Bhattacharyya R,
Bouhassira EE, Stein A, Woodcock CL, Skoultchi AI.
Histone H1 depletion in mammals alters global chromatin
structure but causes specific changes in gene
regulation.
Cell. 2005 Dec 29;123(7):1199-212.
Huttelmaier S, Zenklusen D, Lederer M, Dictenberg J,
Lorenz M, Meng X, Bassell GJ, Condeelis J, Singer RH.
Spatial regulation of beta-actin translation by Src-dependent
phosphorylation of ZBP1.
Nature. 2005 Nov 24;438(7067):512-5.
Norio P, Kosiyatrakul S, Yang Q, Guan Z, Brown NM,
Thomas S, Riblet R, Schildkraut CL.
Progressive activation of DNA replication initiation in
large domains of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus
during B cell development.
Mol Cell. 2005 Nov 23;20(4):575-87.
Stopka T, Amanatullah DF, Papetti M, Skoultchi AI.
PU.1 inhibits the erythroid program by binding to GATA-1
on DNA and creating a repressive chromatin structure.
EMBO J. 2005 Nov 2;24(21):3712-23. Epub 2005 Oct 13.
Liao M, Kielian M.
Domain III from class II fusion proteins functions as a
dominant-negative inhibitor of virus membrane fusion.
J Cell Biol. 2005 Oct 10;171(1):111-20.
Wang Y, Putnam CD, Kane MF, Zhang W, Edelmann L, Russell
R, Carrion DV, Chin L, Kucherlapati R, Kolodner RD,
Edelmann W.
Mutation in Rpa1 results in defective DNA double-strand
break repair, chromosomal instability and cancer in
mice.
Nat Genet. 2005 Jul;37(7):750-5.
Pajvani UB, Trujillo ME, Combs TP, Iyengar P, Jelicks L,
Roth KA, Kitsis RN, Scherer PE.
Fat apoptosis through targeted activation of caspase 8:
a new mouse model of inducible and reversible
lipoatrophy.
Nat Med. 2005 Jul;11(7):797-803.
Rudra D, Zhao Y, Warner JR.
Central role of Ifh1p-Fhl1p interaction in the synthesis
of yeast ribosomal proteins.
EMBO J. 2005 Feb 9;24(3):533-42.
Gibbons DL, Vaney MC, Roussel A, Vigouroux A, Reilly B,
Lepault J, Kielian M, Rey FA.
Conformational change and protein-protein interactions
of the fusion protein of Semliki Forest virus.
Nature. 2004 Jan 22;427(6972):320-5.
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