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 From
the Dean
The
Groundbreaking ceremony for the
Bioscience Research Building was
a landmark for the College and
for the University, ushering in
a new era for the College. The
presence of the Governor, Speaker
of the House and President of the
Senate was clear evidence of the
importance that the state attaches
to this project. Many have commented
on the good will and good humor
that pervaded the event; I attribute
this at least in part to the fact
that everyone was united in feeling
relief that the question of funding
this building is behind us. We
anticipate the first major event
in construction, the demolition
of the large lecture hall, around
the beginning of November. (For
more information on the groundbreaking,
see the article below.)
State,
university and biosciences industry
leaders ceremonially break ground
for the new Bioscience Research
Building.
The
major event for November will be
Bioscience Day on November 4. We
have an exceptionally rich program
this year (see lineup of speakers,
below),
including a keynote address by
Leon Cooper, a Nobel Prize winner
who has now turned his attention
to modeling the function of the
nervous system. Please mark your
calendars and try to incorporate
appropriate components of the program
into your classes.
The College Advisory Council,
chaired by Leslie Pick, is preparing
the ballot on the name change for
the College and is also developing
a section on the Board of Visitors
for the Plan of Governance.
I have appointed a Faculty Advisory
Committee to act as a sounding
board for me on matters concerning
the faculty and to act as an interface
between the Board of Visitors and
the faculty. Its members are Neil
Blough, Gerry Borgia, Leslie Pick
and Jerry Wilkinson, from the College
Advisory Council, and Margaret
Palmer, Betsy Quinlan, Anne Simon
and Larry Sita, to provide additional
expertise on our strategic research
initiatives.
I have asked
Lorraine Charity, who is representing
exempt staff on the College Advisory
Council this year, to organize
three Conversations with the Dean
for staff. If you are interested
in assisting in organizing these
events, please contact Lorraine
(lcharity@umd.edu).
 The
College is a partner, with the
Clark School of Engineering and
the College of Computer, Mathematical
and Physical Sciences, in the University's
initiative in nanoscience. This
is a major priority of the University,
and investments are being made
in both nanofabrication and materials
characterization. Larry Sita and
Jeff Davis are our representatives
on the Faculty Steering Committee,
chaired by Pat O'Shea.
I look forward
to seeing you at the next All-College
Meeting on Wednesday, October 6
from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in 1407
Chemistry Building.
 Academic
Calendar and Upcoming Events
October
2: Academically
Talented Open House
October
6: All-College
Meeting, 3:30 p.m.
to 5 p.m.,
1407 Chemistry Building
October
11: Visit
Maryland Day
October
12: Faculty
and Staff Convocation,
3 p.m., Memorial Chapel
October
20-21: Board
of Visitors Meeting
October
23: Academically
Talented Open House
November
2: Lecture by 2004-2005
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Dr.
Bryan Eichhorn, Chemistry and Biochemistry: “Fuel
Cells and the Hydrogren Economy:
Science and Politics,” 3:30 p.m.,
1402 Chemistry Building
November
4: Bioscience
Research and Technology
Review Day. Includes a keynote
address by Nobel laureate
Leon Cooper, symposia
by university and corporate
experts, a program for high school
teachers,
a career fair and a poster
session. More information and
to register:
www.bioscienceday.umd.edu.
LFSC contact: Gene Ferrick
(gene@umd.edu)
November
4-5: Graduate
Partners Visit
November
8: Last Day to
Drop with a W
November
11: Visit
Maryland Day
December
10: Last Day of
Classes for Fall
December
18: Campus Commencement,
7 p.m., Comcast Center
December
19: College of Life
Sciences Commencement, 9 a.m.,
Memorial Chapel. The speaker will
be Dr. Cecil B. Pickett, President
of the Schering-Plough Research
Institute and a member of the College's
Board of Visitors.
March
4 and 11, April 1 and 15, 2005: Spring
Open House, Undergraduate
Admissions.LFSC contact:
Eden Garosi (egarosi@umd.edu)
April
30, 2005: Maryland
Day. More information:
www.marylandday.umd.edu.
LFSC contact: LFSC contact: Gene
Ferrick
(gene@umd.edu)
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 Governor
Robert L. Ehrlich (right) addresses
the crowd at the groundbreaking.
Sharing the stage were, from left,
Dr. Sarah Tishkoff, Dr. Wayne Hockmeyer,
Dr. Norma Allewell, and President
C.
D. Mote, among other state and
university leaders.
More
than 300 state leaders, biosciences
industry representatives, members
of the university community and
friends of the College gathered
on Hornbake Plaza September 14
to celebrate the groundbreaking
of the Bioscience Research Building.
Governor
Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., told attendees
that construction of the building
represents a “serious
commitment on behalf of the state
to this campus.” He called University
President C. D. Mote “head cheerleader” for
the building, saying that President
Mote “was like a dog with a bone” because
he never gave up fighting for support
for the project. Governor Ehrlich
said the building is crucial because
bioscience research will allow
us to live longer and better, feed
the world, and improve our lives.
Maryland Senate President Thomas
V. “Mike” Miller and Maryland House
Speaker Michael E. Busch also spoke
in support of the building, President
Miller calling it an asset that
will “make a very great university
even greater.”
President
Mote said construction of the building
is a “pivotal step” for
the university, reminding the audience
that all great research universities
in the future will attain excellence
in the biosciences. He used Benjamin
Franklin's words to indicate the
importance of the state's support
for the new building: “An investment
in knowledge pays the best interest.” Dean
Norma Allewell expressed appreciation
to state and university leaders,
the business community, and members
of the university community for
supporting the building project.
She remarked: “We are working aggressively
to raise the College of Life Sciences
at the University of Maryland into
the top echelon of bioscience programs
in the United States . This building
is a major catalyst in that effort.”
 Dr. Wayne
Hockmeyer, Chairman of the Board
of Directors of MedImmune, Inc.,
noted that the Bioscience Research
Building “will provide
intellectual capital that will
grow business in this state.” Dr.
Hockmeyer is a former member of
the College's Board of Visitors
and a current member of the UM
Foundation Board of Trustees. Dr.
Sarah Tishkoff, Biology, pointed
out other benefits of the new building:
it will provide cutting-edge resources
for faculty; it will allow us to
compete effectively with other
universities for funding as well
as new faculty, students and postdocs;
and it will promote interaction
and collaboration of researchers
across disciplines.
For media reports
on the groundbreaking, see the
story in
the September 15 Gazette
Newspapers and the September
9 press
release on UM's online Newsdesk.
Cllick here for
more information on the Bioscience
Research Building.
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 Be sure to attend
one or more of the seven symposia
on Bioscience Day November 4, as
well as the keynote talk by Nobel
laureate Leon Cooper. Below you'll
find the schedule for the event,
including the speakers for each
symposium. All locations are in
the Stamp Student Union. Click
here to
register for the event, which
will also include an all-day poster
session, with researchers attending
their posters from 11:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. (Grand Ballroom), and
an internship and career fair from
10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Colony
Ballroom).
9:30
a.m.—11:30 a.m.:
Four concurrent symposia:
Bioinformatics:
The Current State of the Art and
a Look to the
Future (Pyon-Su Room),
organized by Dr. Michael
Cummings, Biology and
Center
for Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology [Click
here for
more information.][PDF
of talk titles]
Speakers:
Dr. Michael Cummings (Biology
and Center for Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology, UM)
Dr. Sorin Istrail (Informatics
Research Division, Celera/Applied
Biosystems)
Dr. David Lipman (National
Center for Biotechnology Information,
NIH)
Keeping
Our Food Safe: Challenges and Responses (Nanticoke
Room), organized by Dr.
David Lineback, JIFSAN
[Click
here for
more information.][PDF
of talk titles and speaker schedule]
Speakers:
Dr. Daniel
Dennison (Center for Food Safety,
University of Georgia)
Dr. Arthur
Miller (Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition—CFSAN)
Dr. Robert Sprinkle (School
of Public Affairs, UM)
Moving
Toward an Ecologically Sustainable
Future (Prince
George's Room), organized by Dr.
Margaret Palmer, Entomology
and Biology [Click
here for
more information.][PDF
of talk titles and speaker schedule]
Speakers:
Dr. Galen
Dively (Entomology, UM)
Dr. William
Fagan (Biology, UM)
Dr.
Mary Carol Hunter (School of Environmental
Design, University of Georgia)
Dr. Margaret
Palmer (Entomology and
Biology, UM)
Dr. Eric Sachs (Monsanto)
Nanotechnology
for the Life Sciences (Margaret
Brent Room), organized by Dr.
Lawrence Sita, Chemistry
and Biochemistry [Click
here for
more information.][PDF
of talk titles and speaker schedule]
Speakers:
Dr. William Bentley (Chemical
Engineering, UM, and Center for
Biosystems Research, UMBI)
Dr.
Philip DeShong (Chemistry
and Biochemistry, UM)
Dr. Marcey Waters (Department
of Chemistry, University of North
Carolina )
1:30
p.m. — 2:30 p.m., Keynote
Address (Hoff
Auditorium): “Theoretical
Neuroscience: Is It Possible? Can
It Be Useful?” by Dr. Leon Cooper,
Departments of Physics and Neuroscience,
Brown University, and Director
of the Brown University Institute
for Brain and Neural Systems and
Brain Science Program. [Click here for
more information.]
2:30
p.m.—4:30 p.m.:
Three concurrent symposia:
The
Endless War: Pathogens vs. Hosts (Margaret
Brent Room), organized by Dr.
Raymond St. Leger, Entomology
[Cllick here for
more information.][PDF
of talk titles and order of speakers]
Speakers:
Dr.
Paul Ewald (Department of Biology,
University of Louisville)
Mr. Joe Hernandez (Innovative
Biosensors, Inc.)
Dr. David
Mosser (CBMG, UM)
Evolutionary
Genomics: From Microbes to Mammals (Nyumburu
Multipurpose Room), organized by Dr.
Gerald Wilkinson, Biology
[Cllick here for
more information.][PDF
of talk titles and order of speakers]
Speakers:
Dr.
Jocelyn DiRuggiero (CBMG,
UM)
Dr.
Thomas Kocher (Hubbard Center
for Genome Studies, University
of New Hampshire)
Dr. Stephen
O'Brien (Laboratory of Genomic
Diversity, National Cancer Institute)
Dr. Steven Salzberg (The Institute
for Genomic Research; the Johns
Hopkins University)
Molecular
Insights into Nervous System Development,
Memory Storage and Disease (Prince
George's Room), organized by Dr.
Elizabeth Quinlan, Biology
[Click here for
more information.][PDF
of talk titles and order of speakers]
Speakers:
Dr. Richard Huganir (Department
of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute; Johns Hopkins
University)
Dr. Matthew Kelley (Section on
Developmental Neuroscience, National
Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders)
Dr. Barbara Slusher (Guilford Pharmaceuticals)
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Faculty
Recognition and In
the News
Dr. Norma Allewell,
Dean and Professor of Chemistry
and Biochemistry, has been appointed
to a three-year term of the Board
of Directors of FASEB (Federation
of American Societies for Experimental
Biology) by the Biophysical Society.
 Dr.
Herman Ammon,
Chemistry and Biochemistry, received
a 6-month, $89,000 grant from the
University of Missouri for “Structure-Density-Heat
of Formation-Sensitivity.”
Dr. Michael
Cummings,
Biology and Center for Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology, gave
lectures and computer demonstrations
at the Workshop on Molecular Evolution,
Biodiversity and Bioinformatics,
Korea Ocean Research and Development
Institute, South Sea Institute,
and a research seminar, “Application
of Tree-Based Statistical Models
to the Analysis of Genotype-Phenotype
Relationships,” at the Korea Research
Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
in September. His recent publications
include:
Cummings, M. P., D. S. Myers.
2004. Simple statistical models
predict
C-to-U edited sites in plant mitochondrial
RNA. BMC Bioinformatics
5:132.
Cummings, M. P. 2004.
A book like its cover - The Phylogenetic
Handbook: A Practical Approach
to DNA and Protein Phylogeny, Edited
by M. Salemi and A.-M. Vandamme. Heredity 93:234-235.
 Dr.
Jocelyne DiRuggiero,
CBMG, and her lab's research staff
earned a September 13 feature
story
in SpaceDaily (an article that
also appears on the NASA Web site,
dated September 10)
for their NASA-funded research
on the microbe Halobacterium. The
researchers are hoping the microbe can
give them insights about biotechnology,
cancer, possible life on other
planets and how to protect astronauts
from space radiation. Dr. DiRuggiero
and graduate assistant Adrienne
Kish are quoted. In addition,
Dr. DiRuggiero received a 24-month,
$500,000 grant from NSF for “QSB:
Modeling Predictive Biological
Networks in Halobacterium sp. ” This
project is being carried out in
collaboration with Nitin Baliga
at the Institute for Systems Biology.
Drs.
Galen Dively and Amy
Brown, Entomology, received
a $95,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency for the "University
of Maryland Pesticide Regulatory
and Policy Training Program." The
grant is expected to continue at
that level for an additional 4
years. It provides graduate assistantships
and undergraduate fellowships for
students to participate in a combination
of structured course work and internship
experiences to prepare them for
public service careers in pesticide
and environmentally related fields.
Dr.
Michele Dudash, Biology,
was the Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology graduate student choice
as a guest seminar speaker at Brown
University in spring 2004. Dr.
Dudash spoke on "Historic
inbreeding, phenotypic plasticity,
and founding population size as
predictors of establishment success
in native and non-native habitats
of Mimulus guttatus."
 Dr.
Bryan Eichhorn,
Chemistry and Biochemistry, who
was named a 2004-2005 Distinguished
Scholar-Teacher, is among the honorees
at the annual Faculty and Staff
Convocation on Tuesday, October
12 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial
Chapel. As part of the Scholar-Teacher
Lecture Series, Dr. Eichhorn will
give a talk on “Fuel Cells and
the Hydrogren Economy: Science
and Politics” on November 2 at
3:30 p.m. in 1402 Chemistry Building.
Dr.
Charles Fenster and Dr.
Michele Dudash, Biology,
received a 12-month, $30,000 ROA
grant for an ongoing 5-year
NSF award on “Quantifying the Role
of Pollinator Mediated Selection
in the Evolution of Pollination
Syndromes in Silene.” This ROA
supplement allows Dr. Susan Kephart
from Wilamette College in Oregon
to collaborate on fieldwork at
Mountain Lake Biological Station
in summers 2004 and 2005 with Drs.
Fenster and Dudash.
Dr. Eric Haag,
Biology, received a 3-year, $375,000
award from NSF for “Evolution of
Nematode Sex Determination.” This
project uses the nematode genus Caenorhabditis to
study how sex determination evolves
over short time scales.
Dr. David Inouye,
Biology, is
co-PI with four other researchers
from the Rocky Mountain
Biological Laboratory (RMBL) on
a grant ($429,695) from NSF's Major
Research
Instrumentation program. The award
will support acquisition of GIS
and GPS
equipment by RMBL to enable high-resolution
spatially explicit research and
training.
In a September
2 Baltimore
Sun article, Dr.
Bruce Jarvis,
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
and Biochemistry, examines a court
house office
for mold, finding mold and Chaetomium
globosum.
 Dr.
William Jeffery, Biology,
was honored for his 5+ years as
the Chair of the Department of
Biology at a reception at the Rossborough
Inn onSeptember 14.
Dr.
Zhongchi Liu, CBMG, and two members of
her lab—postdoc Dr.
Vaniyambadi Sridhar and
graduate student Anandkumar
Surendrarao —published
a paper in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences in
August:
Sridhar, V. V., A. Surendrarao,
D. Gonzalez, R. S. Conlan, and
Z. Liu. Transcriptional repression
of target genes by LEUNIG and SEUSS,
two interacting regulatory proteins
for Arabidopsis flower
development. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 101 (31):
11494-11499. August 2004.
Dr. Alice Mignerey,
Chemistry and Biochemistry, received
a $12,000 grant from the Department
of Defense for “Development of
Techniques in Accelerator Mass
Spectrometry.”
Dr. Cynthia
Moss,
Director of the Neuroscience and
Cognitive Science (NACS) program
and an affiliate professor in Biology,
and NACS doctoral student Kaushik
Ghose won the top prize
in the international competition “2004
Science and Engineering Visualization
Challenge,” sponsored by NSF and Science magazine.
The winning entry used slow-motion
video, animation and sound to show
how bats use sound to probe their
environment and to process information.
For more information, see the article on
the UM Newsdesk Web site.
Dr. John Ondov,
Chemistry and Biochemistry, received
a 1-year, $4,000 grant from NIST
for “Homeland Security Radionuclide
Reference Materials for E.”
 Dr.
David Poeppel, Biology,
is the first scientist to win the
Daimler Chrysler Berlin Prize.
The award provides a fellowship
at the American Academy in Berlin,
Germany. Until this time, Berlin
scholars have represented only
the cultural and public policy
disciplines. While at the Berlin
Academy, Dr. Poeppel will write
papers on speech recognition and
do a brain-imaging experiment involving
magnetoencephalography (MEG) in
collaboration with German colleagues.
As the UM
Newsdesk reports, "Poeppel
is the first scientist to receive
a Berlin Prize and, as such, marks
a great step forward for our institution," said
Miranda Robbins, Fellows Selection
Coordinator for the Academy. "He
impressed the selection committee
enormously with the seriousness
of his work in both linguistics
and neurobiology. He is a genuinely
interdisciplinary scholar, perfect
for the community here."
The paper by
Dr. Sarah
Tishkoff and former postdoc
Dr. Brian
Verrelli that has
been receiving prepress media attention
has been published in the American
Journal of Human Genetics:
Verrelli
B. C. and, Tishkoff, S. A. (2004)
Signatures
of selection and gene conversion
associated with human color vision
variation. American
Journal of Human Genetics 75
(3): 363-375.
Staff
News
Welcome
to Donna Brown,
the new administrative assistant
for the MOCB Program and for the
Entomology Department, and Diane
McGee, the new executive
administrative assistant to Dean
Allewell who previously worked
in the University's College of
Arts and Humanities.
Undergraduate
Student Recognition and News
 Anselm
Tintinu,
a junior biochemistry major, was
one of 53 students nationwide selected
to participate in the Exceptional
Research Opportunities Program
(EXROP), sponsored by the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute. The award
enabled him to spend the summer
conducting research under the guidance
of HHMI Investigator Dr. Thomas
Sudhof at University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center. Anselm studied the biochemical
processes that regulate the release
of neurotransmitters across nerve
synapses.
 Dr.
Bill Higgins led
17 College Park Scholars on a travel-study
program to Australia in August. Dr.
Reid Compton and Ms.
Stacy Richardson also
accompanied the group. This is
the fourth year that Dr. Higgins
has taken this trip, which encompasses
three distinct areas of a biologically
rich and diverse country. The first
portion of the trip was spent in
Kakadu National Park (Northern
Territory). The park is listed
as a World Heritage Area for both
cultural and natural characteristics.
Students visited Aboriginal rock
sites and observed a variety of
animals, ranging from kangaroos
to saltwater crocodiles to exotic
birds. The second part of the experience
focused on the tropical environment
of the Daintree River and Cape
Tribulation. This area is one
of the few in Australia where rainforest
and coast meet. The final leg of
the trip was spent on Lizard Island
, which is situated on the outer
Great Barrier Reef. Group members
stayed on the island's research
station and devoted most of their
time to snorkeling and reef walking.
Graduate
Student and Postdoc Recognition
 Dr.
Leslie Ries received
a 2-year, $120,000 NSF Postdoctoral
Fellowship in Bioinformatics for “Longterm
Changes in the Distribution and
Abundance of North American Butterflies:
An Ecoinformatic Analysis of the
4th of July Butterfly Counts.” She
is advised by Dr. William
Fagan, Biology.
 Mike
Seganish,
a fourth-year graduate student
in Chemistry, received an American
Chemical Society Organic Division
Fellowship. Mike's fellowship is
one of only 18 awarded annually
under the sponsorship of Proctor & Gamble.
Mike conducts graduate research
under the direction of Dr.
Philip DeShong.
For information
about the paper that postdoc Dr.
Vaniyambadi Sridhar and
graduate student Anandkumar
Surendrarao coauthored,
see Dr. Zhongchi
Liu under “Faculty
Recognition and In the News.”
Alumni
News
Advanced
special student Jeff Liesch (BS'04,
Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
with High Honors) was interviewed
September 7 on PBS's News Hour
at the beginning of a special
report on pollution. (His
named is spelled “Leach” in
the program manuscript.) Liesch
is affiliated with meteorology
(Computer, Mathematical and Physical
Sciences) and the Earth Systems
Interdisciplinary Science Center.
For
publication information about the
recently published paper that Dr.
Brian Verrelli,
a former postdoc, coauthored, see
Dr. Sarah
Tishkoff under “Faculty
Recognition and In the News.”
 Alumni
Day BBQ
At right:
A crowd of alumni, faculty and
staff enjoyed the College's pregame
BBQ September 11 before watching
the Maryland Terrapins trounce
the Temple Owls , 45-22. Below
left: Dr.
Robert Zaner (BS'78 Zoology)
and family pose with the terrapin
mascot. Below right: Lisa
Osborne (BS'02
Chemistry), Eric
Schwartz (BS'01
Microbiology) and McKenzie
Clement (BS'01 Biological
Science, MS'02 Business and Management)
spend time with two fellow Terps:
Assistant to the Dean Gene
Ferrick (BA '84,
MGA '92) and Lauren Ruff, a doctoral
candidate in the College of Education.
 
In
Memoriam
Dr.
Rudolph (Rudy) C. White (PhD'59
Chemistry), 75,
of Glen Allen, VA (formerly of
Victoria, VA), died September
26. Survivors include his wife,
Sue B. White; his son, Brinson
Carter White, and his daughter,
Rebecca Fox. Dr. White graduated
from Virginia Military Institute
in 1951, where he was captain of
the basketball team and later served
in the Korean Conflict.
 Weddings
Dr. David
W. Dempsey , DDS (BS'69
Zoology) and Rebecca Loder-Gray
were married June 26 in Tarpon
Springs, FL. Dr. Dempsey is a self-employed
dentist.
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Thank you to
the following associations, corporations
and foundations for their support:
- American Chemical Society ($80,000)
- BASF Corporation ($1,000)
to the Department of Entomology
Research Fund
- BSF ($12,480)
- Ecological Society
of America ($12,698)
- Fresh Water Institute ($50,000)
- FritoLay, Inc. ($5,000)
to the Joint Institute for Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition
- ILSI North America ($40,000)
to the Joint Institute for Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition
- Leakey Foundation ($12,000)
- LycoRed Natural Product
Industries, Ltd. ($11,840)
- Tree Research & Education
Endowment Fund ($7,000)
Thank you to
these individuals for their support:
- Annual fund
gifts: Dr. Lisa Bradley for
undergraduate scholarship support, Libby
Mikesell (BA'79) for
Department of Biology Fund, and Dr.
Richard Payne* for the
Eugenie Clark Scholarship Fund.
- Annual fund
pledges: Dr. Patricia E.
Ganey (BS'79 Biological
Sciences) for the Dean's Fund; Dr.
Charles Mitter for the
Gahan Scholarship Fund, and Robert
M. Najewicz (BS'79) for
the Dean's Fund.
* University
of Maryland Colonnade Society,
which recognizes donors of $1,000
or more annually.
If
you are interested in learning
more about supporting the College
of Life Sciences, please contact
Bruce Shatswell, Assistant Dean
for Development and Corporate Relations, bashatswell@umd.edu,
301-405-0295.
Licenses
and Patents
Beginning
with this issue of the newsletter,
we will be recognizing faculty
members who have recently executed
technology licenses and/or obtained
patents.
Active
licenses executed in the past two
years for technologies disclosed
by Life Sciences
faculty:
- Dr. Spencer Benson (CBMG):
Nereus Pharmaceuticals
- Dr. Daniel Falvey (Chemistry
and Biochemistry): Pixelligent
Technologies
- Dr. Catherine Fenselau (Chemistry
and Biochemistry): Stratagene
- Dr. Fred Khachik (Chemistry
and Biochemistry): Kemin Foods
- Dr. Larry Sita (Chemistry
and Biochemistry): WR Grace
- Dr. Daniel Stein (CBMG):
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
Patents
(January 1, 2003 – August,
2004):
- 6,524,811 Genes of Carotenoids
Biosynthesis and Metabolism and
Methods of Use Thereof: Dr.
Francis Cunningham and Zarien
Sun (CBMG)
- 6,541,607 Sublancin 168, A
Lantibiotic Produced by Bacillus
Subtilin 168: Dr. J. Norman
Hansen (Chemistry and
Biochemistry)
- 6,551,807 Biological Production
of Carotenoids with Ketocarotenoid-like
Absorption Properties: Dr.
Francis Cunningham (CBMG)
- 6,579,998 Olefin Polymerization
Catalysts with High Activity for
the Polymerization of alpha-Olefins
and in a Living and Stereoselective
Manner: Dr. Lawrence Sita and Dr.
Kumudini Jayaratne (Chemistry
and Biochemistry)
- 6,642,021 Genes of Carotenoid
Biosynthesis and Metabolism and
Methods of Use Thereof: Dr.
Francis Cunningham (CBMG)
- 6,732,569 System and Method
for Collecting Samples of Atmospheric
Aerosol Particles for Near-Real
Time Analysis: Dr. John
Ondov (Chemistry and
Biochemistry), Dr. Christopher
Kidwell, Dr. Thomas Michael Tuch
- 6,759,040 Preparation and Use
of Biofilm-Degrading, Multiple-Specificity,
Hydrolytic Enzyme Mixtures: Dr.
Ron Weiner (CBMG)
Biology
Department at Woods Hole, 2004
 Biology
Department faculty and students
were well represented at the Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
(MBL) over the summer. Dr.
Mike Cummings served
as Director of the Workshop on
Molecular Evolution in which Holly
Mortensen, a Biology
graduate student working in the
laboratory of Dr. Sarah
Tishkoff, was a student. Dr.
Catherine Carr continued
to serve as Codirector of the Neural
Systems and Behavior (NS&B)
Course. Dr. Kate MacLeod,
a postdoctoral student in the Carr
laboratory, assisted her in the
course. Dr. Carr also delivered
a prestigious MBL Friday Night
Lecture titled “Sound Localization
in Owls and Alligators.” Dr.
Jonathan Simon was an
Instructor in the NS&B course. Dr.
William Jeffery was
an Investigator in the Whitman
Institute and also lectured in
the Embryology Course. Dr.
Daphne Soares, a postdoctoral
fellow in the lab of Dr. Jeffery,
served as the Associate Director
of the Grass Fellows Program. Biology
graduate students and Jeffery laboratory
members Allen Strickler and Ernie
Hixon visited to conduct
research with Dr. Soares. Near
the end of the summer, Drs. Soares
and Jeffery won second prize in
the annual MBL Photography Contest
for their photograph of a three-siphoned
ascidian (Ciona). Ascidians normally
have only two siphons, so this
one might be a homeotic mutant,
the first ever found in an ascidian.
All in all, it was a fine summer
at Woods Hole.
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Thanks
to Internship Mentors
The College of Life Sciences
would like to express its appreciation
to the
following individuals, who served
as mentors to undergraduate students
enrolled in our off-campus internship
course, BSCI 289, during the spring
and summer semesters:
- Sufian Al-Khaldi, Center For
Food Safety and Applied Nutrition,
FDA
- Michelle
Clarke, Alcohol & Tobacco
Tax & Trade Bureau, U.S. Department
of
the Treasury
- Dennis Drayna, National Institute
on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders, NIH
- Deborah Fravel, Plant Sciences
Institute, USDA
- F. Scott Hall, National Institute
on Drug Abuse, NIH
- Seth Harper, National Aquarium
in Baltimore
- David Kaplan, Center for Devices
and Radiological Health, FDA
-
Beth Manning, National Aquarium
in Baltimore
- Jeffery Mazique, Walter Reed Army
Medical Center
- Micheal Mittelholzer, Environmental
Policy, National Association of
Home
Builders
- Christine Montouri, Second Chance
Wildlife Center
-
Ramachandra Naik, Division of Biochemistry,
Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research
-
Anu Puri, Center for Cancer Research,
National Cancer Institute
- Laura Reiser, Food Safety and Inspection
Service, USDA
- Diana Reiss, Wildlife Conservation
Society, New York Aquarium
- Kathy Siegfried, National Aquarium
in Baltimore
- Janet Slovin, Plant Sciences Institute,
USDA
- Lori Smith, National Aquarium in
Baltimore
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Update
on Fall College Committees
College
Advisory Council
In addition to
the faculty members serving on
the College Advisory Council, as
reported in the September
newsletter,
the College would like to thank
the following staff and students
who are members of the Council:
- Lorraine
Charity, Business
Manager in CBMG
- Lisa
Pfeifer,
a doctoral student in the Department
of Biology
- Alya Raphael,
a senior majoring in Cell and Molecular
Biology and Genetics
- Cathy
Rosenfelder, Administrative
Assistant in Chemistry and Biochemistry
College Undergraduate
Program Committee (CUPC)
The College appreciates the
service of the following faculty
on CUPC:
- Dean's Office: Dr.
Norma Allewell (Chair),
Dr. Robert Infantino, Dr. Joelle
Presson
- Biology: Dr. Alexandra
Bely, Dr. Reid Compton, Dr. William
Fagan, Dr. Dennis O'Connor
- Chemistry and
Biochemistry: Dr.
Herman Ammon, Dr. Michael Montague-Smith,
Dr. John Tossell, Dr. Andrei Vedernikov
- CBMG: Dr. Charles Delwiche,
Dr. Patricia Shields, Dr. Ann Smith,
Dr. Robert Yuan
- Entomology: Dr. David
Hawthorne, Dr. Brett Kent, Dr.
William Lamp, Dr. Judd Nelson
How
to Post Your News
If
you would like to share your accomplishments
or other news, please send a note (and
any accompanying photos)
to Meredith Brittain at
brittain@umd.edu. Issues are usually sent at the beginning
of each month.
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