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News
New Faculty
Dr. Piyali Dasgupta joined the Department in August, 2007
from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Florida.
Recent Accomplishments/Activities July 1 – December 31,
2007
Dr. Piyali Dasgupta has been awarded a Pharmaceutical
Manufacturer’s Research Starter Grant beginning in January, 2008. The title of
her project is entitled “α7-Nicotine receptor signaling in non small cell lung
cancer”.
Dr. Larry Grover has been awarded a grant from Wyeth
Pharmaceuticals. The title of his project is “The effects of venlafaxine
administration on central and peripheral brain-derived neurotropic factor in
rats”.
Dr. Grover’s graduate students Eunyoung Kim and Jennifer
Cooke attended the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society of
Neuroscience, November 3-7 in San Diego, CA and were co-authors on a poster
entitled “Efficient LTP induction in hippocampal area CA1 over a wide range of
burst intervals, with a peak near delta frequency”.
Dr.
Nalini Santanam presented a poster at the 14th Annual Meeting of
Society for Free Radical in Biology and Medicine held at Washington DC, November
14-18, 2007.
Dr.
Santanam has been nominated as the Chair of the Leadership Committee of the
Women in Science Organization of the Society for Free Radical in Biology and
Medicine
Two CAPSTONE students, Miriah Gillespie and Nafeeza Hussein, working with Dr.
Santanam have received 2007 NASA Scholarships.
Dr. Monica Valentovic Chaired NIH Study Sections reviewing
SBIR applications in July and November.
Dr. Gary Rankin participated in two NIH Study Sections:
the RCMI-IDeA Study Section and the CMBK Study Section.
Mindy Asbury, a graduate student working in Dr. Kelley
Kiningham’s laboratory, won the “Best Oral Presentation” award at the 82nd
meeting of the West Virginia Academy of Sciences. | 