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Fall 2006, Vol. 2, No. 2 | Index
Research Briefs
From the Bordenstein Laboratory
Baldo, L., J. Dunning-Hotopp, S.R. Bordenstein, S.A. Biber, K. Jollie, H. Tettelin, M. Maiden, C. Hayashi, and J.H. Werren. A Multilocus Sequence Typing system for the endosymbiont Wolbachia. In press. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Sanogo, Y.O., S.L. Dobson, S.R. Bordenstein, and R.J. Novak. The Wolbachia surface protein gene wspB is disrupted by a transposable element in Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus but not in North American Culex pipiens pipiens populations (Diptera: Culicidae). In press. Insect Molecular Biology.
From the Furie Laboratory
Czerwiec E., D.E. Kalume, P. Roepstorff, B. Hambe, B. Furie, B.C. Furie, J. Stenflo. Novel gamma-carboxyglutamic acid-containing peptides from the venom of Conus textile. FEBS J. 2006 Jun:273(12):2779-88.
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April Shiflett Defends Doctoral Thesis
April Shiflett made history last month as the first student in the Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences to defend a doctoral thesis. April presented the talk “Susceptibility and resistance to human TLF in African trypanosomes” on August 31 at Brown University’s Eddy Auditorium.
April’s research specialty is the African trypanosome, the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness. The disease, which threatens sixty million people in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, was arrested for a time, but has recently reemerged in the face of political instability, population displacement, war, and poverty.
Brown University only confers degrees once a year, so April will officially graduate in May 2007. In the meantime, she is busy submitting research manuscripts and is assisting Stephen Hajduk with the set-up of his new lab at the University of Georgia while she prepares to interview for post-doctoral positions. Congratulations, April! |
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