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A winning Cystarter team (l to r): John LaMarche, Scott Cogdill, Denis and Paige Furman
Denis Tamiev, a graduate student in biochemistry in Professor Nigel Reuel's (CB&E) research group, participated in CYstarters this summer and his team's final...
Dipali Sashital - photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University
Dipali Sashital is passionate about her research uncovering the molecular makeup of bacterial immune systems. She also thrives on instilling a love of biochemistry in undergraduate and graduate students. Her dedication to...
Denis Tamiev, a graduate student in biochemistry in Professor Nigel Reuel's (CB&E) research group, was selected to join a cohort of 15 entrepreneurs who will participate in the CYstarters program this summer. The 11–week intensive program, coordinated by the Iowa State...
Reuben Peters, professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, was among 19 faculty members of Iowa State University to be awarded the 2019 Exemplary Faculty Mentors Award on May 2nd in recognition of faculty mentors who go above and beyond the formal...
Dr. Scott Nelson, Associate Professor of the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology, has been elected to represent the Biological and Agricultural Sciences division for the Graduate Council from Fall 2019 to Spring 2022.
Dr. Dipali Sashital has been named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program provides an unrestricted research grant of $100,000 to support the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. The criteria...
Marit Nilsen-Hamilton
An Ames Tribune article focuses on the research being lead by Marit Nilsen-Hamilton, an Iowa State University professor with the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on how plants...
Several BBMB undergraduate students are among the 62 students representing 30 different majors from Iowa State University at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, the largest undergraduate research conference in the U.S., taking place this week, April 11-13th, at Kennesaw...
Ryan Andrews and Daniel Kramer
Ryan Andrews and Daniel Kramer, Ph.D. candidates in Biochemistry, have each been awarded a Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Award for 2019. This award is to recognize meritorious performance by a...
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, has committed more than $3.5 million to transform biomolecular research at Iowa State University (ISU) to advance the second phase of the ISU Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology’s Initiative in...
Daniel Kramer, a Ph.D. candidate in Biochemistry, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Brown Graduate Fellowship in the amount of $10,000. The purpose of the fellowship program, administered by the Office of the Vice President of Research of Iowa State University, is to assist ...
The BBMB Graduate Learning Community monthly lunch meeting included an ugly holiday sweater contest. A photo of the winner can be found at the Graduate Learning Community website.
The BBMB scholarship committee is proud to announce the 2019-2020 Stupka Scholars: Spydel Nardy (nominated by Dipa Sashital), Kayla Uthe (nominated by Olga Zabotina) and Sarah Zelle (nominated by Eric Underbakke).
The Rob Stupka Scholarship is the most prestigious award...
Kristen Johansen, Department Chair of BBMB, is among seven ISU researchers who are being honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for their work in agriculture, biological sciences, chemistry and engineering. The seven are among 416 researchers...
Stories of thanks for unforgettable faculty and staff from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Dr. Daniel Robison, from West Virginia University-Morgantown, is the new endowed dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as the director of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station.
Lauren Kueffer, a Ph.D. student in Biochemistry in Professor Andreotti’s research group, was the first graduate student in several years to invite and host a BBMB department seminar speaker. Lauren invited Professor Thomas Smithgall to speak ...
The weather forecast for Ames on August 30th was sunny with a high of 80, a perfect day for a picnic at Emma McCarthy Lee Park for the 2018 BBMB Department Annual Picnic. Bocce ball was added to this year's game agenda. Fortunately, it didn't look like anyone was keeping...
Iowa State University and the University of Iowa new seed grant program has awarded seed grants to help investigators build teams, collect data, grow projects and win grants.
The new seed grant is one of 15 internal funding programs offered by the Office of Research and Economic...
For the past 10 years, Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids have received a great deal of research attention as a nutritional food supplement because of their many demonstrated and putative benefits for human health.
A task force has been created to understand how each member of...
Amy Andreotti
Raji Joseph
Over 60 Iowa State faculty and staff will be honored during the university's annual awards ceremony on Friday, September 14, that will be held in the Memorial Union Great Hall. Included in the awards are two BBMB members, Amy...
Natalie Whitis
Natalie Whitis, an Iowa State alumna, was recently awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides three years of full financial support during a five-year fellowship period. The goal of the program is to...
For 20176, 64 employees reached 25 consecutive years of service at Iowa State University. For more than 100 years, the 25 Year Club has recognized faculty and staff who have worked at Iowa State a quarter century or more. A honoree, Donald Beitz, started working at Iowa State in 1967 and is...
[Photo left to right: Basil Nikolau, Naazneen Sofeo and Liza Alexander]
Liza Alexander, a Ph.D. candidate in MCDB, and Naazneen Sofeo, a Ph.D. candidate in Biochemistry, both graduate students in Professor Basil Nikolau’s research group, are headed off to internships in industry for...
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