Lab News

August, 2008: Angel Villahoz Baleta joins the laboratory to work on the new Minimotif miner HIV website. Angel comes to us from the Bioinformatics department at the University of Alabama whre he received a Masters. Debbie Jiang and Matt had a good time in their summer lab fellowships. We all wish them well.

July, 2008: Paper on the role of Kalirin spectrin repeats published in Experimental Cell research and listed as a featured article. Marty was elected to Research Council. RJ Nowling, finishes his sucessful summer project to, yes, study dolphin fins. He will be back. First Schiller-Gryk lab summer beach party at Rocky Neck State Park was a lot of fun. Some Pics are below:

The Krishna-Jay horseshoe grudge match was won by Krishna (middle pic), Jays horseshoe rolling technique will need some work. As the loser, Jay will contribute to the general lab fund for buying a summer beach house for next year.

June, 2008: Matt Babcock and Debbie Jiang join the lab for the summer to work on the relationship of Kalirin and TrkA. Lab is awarded Grant to identify potential motif drug targets in HIV R21AI078708-01

May, 2008: RJ Nowling, joins the lab to work on an interaface to the expert system for annotating motifs in Minimotif Miner.

April, 2008: Jay Vyas and Marty Schiller present Minimotif Miner projects at the Molecular, Microbial, and Structural Biology retreat. Krishna Kadaveru presented his poster, and Martin Schiller was a Co-organizer of this event.

March, 2008: Krishna Kadaveru and Jay Vyas get their first paper. See here. Schiller lab joins with the Gryk and Maciejewski labs to form the Biological System Modeling Group

February, 2008: Shahana Abdullah joins the lab.

Winter, 2008: Martin Schiller gets promoted to Associate Professor

Fall, 2007: Krishna Kadaveru recieves Fellowship from UConn Partnership for Excellence in Structural Biology

Fall, 2007: Jay Vyas comes to the lab for a research rotation

Summer, 2007: Krishna Kadaveru joins the lab. Go Krishna

Spring, 2006: Kaiser J (2006) News report about Minimotif miner website. Science 311:925 PDF

Spring, 2006: J. Proteome Res. (2006) News report about Minimotif miner website. PDF