News from the Winkel lab
Ramirez starts EIG postdoctoral fellowship at the CDC. This week, our own Melissa Ramirez reported for duty at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, starting a two-year stint as a prestigious Emerging Infectious Disease Postdoctoral Fellow. She will be working on leading-edge genomics approaches to understanding drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We miss you - and the plants do, too!
posted 9/19/08 |
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Crosby is back! Graduate student, Kevin Crosby, has returned from a 4.5-month international internship in the laboratory of Dorus Gadella at the Swammerdam Institute in Amsterdam. He brought back spectacular new evidence for the physical interaction of flavonoid enzymes in living cells, generated using FLIM-FRET microscopy. It's great to have him back at lab meeting in person, though the iCHATs were fun...
posted 9/19/08 |
Winkel Lab undergrads head to graduate school... This fall two of our former undergrads headed back to school - Ashley (Duda) Foster (2003-2005) has enrolled in the Political Science graduate program at Kansas State University, after several years serving as Assistant Coach and then Hunter Seat Equitation Coach at KSU (see photo at left), while Sabriya Stukes (2004-2005) has started work on a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Deborah Kwon (2003-2005) is already in her second year in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Brown University. We look forward to seeing where these new paths will take you!
posted 9/19/08 |
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New member of the Hokie Nation welcomed into the world. On August 19th, former Winkel lab graduate student, Chris Dana, and his wife, Kim, announced the birth of their daugther, Katherine Rose. Though born in Michigan, she's clearly already a Hokie at heart. Congratulations, Chris and Kim!!! More photos at this link.
posted 9/18/08 |
Ramirez successfully defends her dissertation. Melissa Ramirez defended her dissertation entitled, "Probing Plant Metabolism:
The Machineries of [Fe-S] Cluster Assembly and Flavonoid Biosynthesis" on August 6th. Many friends, family members, and colleagues helped celebrate afterwards!
posted 9/18/08 |
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Alerding, Watkinson, and Pelletier move up the academic ranks... Former Winkel lab postdoc, Anne (Walton) Alerding, has started down the tenure track this fall as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Virginia Military Institute, while postdoc Jonathan Watkinson is now a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Roanoke College. And, believe it or not, but Matt Pelletier, who earned his Ph.D. in the lab in 1997, is serving as DEPARTMENT HEAD of Biology at Houghton College in New York. We are proud of them all!!!
posted 9/18/08 |
Kulkarni back in town. In Fall of 2007, we had a visit from former Winkel lab undergraduate researcher, Shalini Kulkarni (2003-2004) - and her mom! Following graduation, Shalini worked at the NIH Institute for Alcohol Abuse for one year as a Fellow, then held positions at GL Communications and the Institute for Global Tobacco Control. She is currently with the PR firm, Fleishman-Hillar, working on a malaria advocacy initiative for the Gates Foundation, which sounds fascinating! Shalini is in the process of applying to medical school - we wish her all the best!
posted 9/19/08
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Bowerman, Crosby, Ramirez, and Watkinson travel to Plant Biology & Botany 2007 in Chicago. Four posters and a talk were presented describing current research in the Winkel lab. A great time was reportedly had by all!
posted 8/30/07 |
Ramirez and Bowerman represent Winkel Lab at Bonnaroo
Melissa and Pete traveled to the 2007 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN, this past weekend, where they joined 80,000 others for a camping and music extravaganza. A reliable source reports that, on at least one occasion, they danced until dawn. The two have now returned, safe and sound, to tackle the metabolon with new resolve!
posted 6/19/07 |
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Dr. Pelletier participates in Houghton commencement.
Former Winkel lab Ph.D. student, Matt Pelletier, was in the thick of things this past weekend, helping celebrate the achievements of some of the top students at Houghton College, where he is currently an Associate Professor. We look forward to a visit from Matt and his family this summer.
posted 5/17/07 |
Ramirez and Bowerman win GRDP grants!
Ph.D. students, Melissa Ramirez and Peter Bowerman, have just been awarded grants from Virginia Tech's Graduate Research Development Project to support their dissertation research. Congratulations to them both!!!
posted 5/10/07
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Sabriya Stukes pays a visit!
On Friday, May 4th, former undergraduate researcher Sabriya Stukes stopped by to say hello while in town for a friend's graduation from RU. After a successful stint at NIH working on HIV in macaques, Sabriya starting working at a big research lab at NYU six months ago. She's still the same great person, but a serious scientist now - we are watching to see where her career takes her next...
posted 5/7/07
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Peter Bowerman prevails, joins "doctoral candidate" ranks
On Thursday, April 26th, Pete
passed his oral prelim exam. Now it's back to the bench for more crosslinking, plant transformation, and some ITC!
posted 4/30/07
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Dr. Watkinson to speak at ASPB Congress in Chicago
Our own Jonathan Watkinson has been invited to participate in the Plant Secondary Metabolism Minisymposium at Plant Biology & Botany 2007. He will be discussing his discovery of novel proteins that interact with CHS and may point to new connections between flavonoid metabolism and auxin transport.
posted 4/30/07 |
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Chris Dana ties the knot!
Chris Dana was married this past weekend in Detroit. Chris earned his Ph.D. with us in 2004 and is now a postdoc with Dean Dellapenna at MSU. Details of the big event are forthcoming, but he has sent us a sneak preview...
posted 4/24/07
Alison Smith named VT Undergraduate Woman of the Year
Alison Smith, who is completing an honor's research project in our lab, has been awarded one of Virginia Tech's top undergraduate awards. More details.
posted 4/24/07 |
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Melissa Ramirez and Jonathan Watkinson awarded ASPB travel grants
Two members of the lab have been awarded travel grants from ASPB to participate in Plant Biology & Botany 2007 in Chicago this summer. Pete Bowerman and Kevin Crosby will also attend.
posted 3/20/07
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Renata Christian crowned Miss Virgin Islands, to compete in the 2007 Miss Universe pageant
Former Winkel lab undergraduate researcher, Renata Christian (2003-2004), is wearing a different hat these days. Details...
posted 3/07 |
Dr. Warek presents keynote talk at Department's 4th Annual Research Day
Ujwala Warek, who earned her Ph.D. in 2003 while a member of the Winkel lab, was our Distinguished Alumni Speaker for Research Day 2007. Her talk on 2/24/07 was entitled, "Dolly to Dali - thinking outside the box."
posted 5/07
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