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Barbara Alving Named Director of NIH's National Center for Research Resources |
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Written by Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga
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From the announcement:
NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. has named Barbara Alving, M.D. to be the director of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). As Acting Director of NCRR, Alving has overseen the launch of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program — a new national consortium of academic health centers that will transform the conduct of clinical and translational research to ensure that biomedical discoveries are rapidly translated into prevention strategies and clinical treatments for rare and common diseases.
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Written by Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga
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The HPCf BiRC provided Rio Piedras researchers with technical help to perform phylogenetic analysis of the ependymin protein family. Edna Suarez Castillo and Jose E Garcia Arraras of the Department of Biology, UPR-RRP, published a paper[1] in BioMed Central Evolutionary Biology. The publication is available online.
Phylogeny runs were done in part on espresso, the BiRC linux cluster. Carlos Rodriguez and Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga also provided help with UNIX and the batch envirinment to Ms. Suarez.
[1] Molecular evolution of the ependymin protein family: a necessary update, Edna C Suárez-Castillo and José E García-Arrarás, BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:23 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-23.
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/23
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Written by Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga
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The UPR-RRP RISE Program cordially invites you to a seminar titled Protein Folding
by Dr. Harold Scherega from the
Cornell University
Chemistry Department
To be given Friday, October 20, 2006 at 1:00 PM
in the New Natural Science Building
NCN 142 Amphitheatre
Rio Piedras Campus
University of Puerto Rico
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Written by Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga
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Register now for the 10th annual RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities: Pathways to Discovery: Multidisciplinary Translational Research.
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Society for Toxicology Resources |
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Written by Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga
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The Society for Toxicology (SOT) has funding available for undergraduate students and their mentors to attend the SOT annual meeting in October.
More information is available at the SOT site. |
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