News for the front page
Tullius Research Featured in C&E News
The C&E News article, “Putting DNA in a Bind,” gave an overview of a symposium at the Fall ACS Meeting in Boston on how small molecules interact specifically with DNA and regulate gene expression.
Chemistry Alumnus Elected ACS President
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Professor of Chemistry and the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was elected 2011 ACS President-Elect.
Grinstaff Receives BU’s First “Innovator of the Year” Award
Professor Mark W. Grinstaff has won the inaugural Innovator of the Year Award from BU’s Office of Technology Development, recognizing a faculty member who translates research into innovations that benefit humankind.
Over 700 People from 40 Countries Gather in Boston to Share the Latest in Raman Spectroscopy
Professor Larry Ziegler (BU Chemistry and the BU Photonics Center) and Professor Paul Champion (Northeastern Physics) co-organized the highly successful 22nd International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS 2010 www.icors2010.org).
Wang Research Featured in Journal of Chemical Physics and Honored at the ACS National Meeting
The cover of the Aug. 28th, 2010 issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics, highlights a free-energy diagram calculated with a new enhanced sampling method developed by Professor Feng Wang and his Group (J. Chem. Phys. 113, 084101 {2010]). Their method mimics features of a coarse-grained simulation at the atomic scale. Recent validations performed by […]
Successful ACS Reception Brings together Chemistry Alumni, Friends, Faculty, and Students
One of the boons of having the ACS national meeting in Boston is that it allows us to host a reception and reach out to friends, old and new. Over 150 people attended our Monday, August 23rd reception, co-hosted by BU Chemistry and the BU Alumni Association.
Deborah Perlstein joins Chemistry Faculty
Professor Deborah Perlstein, an enzymologist whose research is at the interface of biology and chemistry, has joined the Department (July 2010). As a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Professor Suzanne Walker at the Harvard Medical School (2006-2010), she studied the sugar polymerases that build the bacterial cell wall. This work, which was recently featured […]
Finding NEMO: Multidisciplinary Team Searches for the Drugs of the Future
There are many medically important drug targets that current drug discovery technology is not able to address. Collaborative basic research in Chemistry, Biology, and Biochemistry is key to solving these intractable problems to enable the discovery of new classes of drugs. A multidisciplinary team at Boston University, led by Associate Professor of Chemistry Adrian Whitty, […]
Chemistry Faculty Receive BU Ignition Awards to Develop Promising Cancer & Tuberculosis Drugs
The Ignition Award Program provides funds to evolve BU research to the stage where it can be licensed, form the basis of a new company, or be used to create a new, non-profit social enterprise. In June 2010, two Chemistry faculty, John Porco and John Snyder, received these highly competitive awards for their respective commercially […]
Tom Tullius and His Research Profiled in The Scientist
The work of Professor Tom Tullius and his collaborators, including former student, Dr. Steven Parker, now a scientist at the NIH, has revealed that DNA shape is even more conserved than its sequence, leading to the ground breaking conclusion that the shape of a DNA segment is important for its function. Written by Karen Hopkin, […]