Open Positions
The Department of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas invites applications for two faculty positions as tenure-track assistant or associate professors. One position is in the area of Biochemistry and another in the area of Microbial Pathogenesis. Candidates are expected to develop an internationally visible, rigorous, and well-funded research program and to effectively teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students. Included for the Microbial Pathogenesis faculty position are specific resources and support mechanisms associated with the NIH Chemical Biology for Infectious Disease Center of Biomedical Research Excellence. As such, preference will be given to those applicants with current or future plans that incorporate an aspect of chemical biology into their research.
September 2017 News
David Davido (associate professor) served as selection committee chair for the Priscilla Schaffer Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Travel Awards at the 42nd International Herpesvirus Workshop in Ghent, Belgium, from July 29-August 2, 2017. He also gave a talk entitled "Inhibition of Viral DNA Replication Limits the Efficacy of an HSV-1 Neuro-attenuated Vaccine in Mice.”
Ilya Vakser (professor) received the competitive renewal of his National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH Research Project Grant (R01) entitled "Integrated resource for protein recognition studies." The goal of this four- year project is to develop protein docking methodology and an accompanying molecular recognition data resource for studies of protein interfaces and development of docking and scoring techniques.
Dr. Sonia Hall, who obtained her PhD from Rob Ward's lab in Molecular Biosciences, was recently profiled by the KU College of Graduate Affairs for their Alumni Spotlight series. Dr. Hall currently works for the Genetics Society of America as their Director of Engagement and Development.
Dr. Adam Norris, a 2011 Ph.D. graduate of the Lundquist lab, has started a position as assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Adam was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. John Calarco in the FAS Institute for Systems Biology at Harvard University, where he studied regulation of RNA processing in neurons and developed CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing techniques in C. elegans.
Jeff McFarlane (graduate student, Lamb lab) is the recipient of the Borgendale Award for his talk at the 2017 Graduate Student Symposium. Jeff’s research talk was entitled “Biosynthesis of opine metallophores by bacterial pathogens.”
Christian Gomez (graduate student, Neufeld lab) was the recipient of a travel award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to help defray expenses associated with attending the Gastrointestinal Tract XVII: Current Biology of the GI tract, Mucosa, Microbiota, and Beyond FASEB Science Research Conference. At the Conference, held July 30 - August 4 in Steamboat Springs, CO, Gomez gave an oral presentation entitled “Increased Levels of APC in Goblet Cells Linked to Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Non-O Glycosylated Muc2.”
Taybor Parker (graduate student, Neufeld lab) was the recipient of a travel award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to help defray expenses associated with attending the Gastrointestinal Tract XVII: Current Biology of the GI tract, Mucosa, Microbiota, and Beyond FASEB Science Research Conference. At the Conference, held July 30 - August 4 in Steamboat Springs, CO, Parker presented a poster entitled “Wnt-dependent asymmetric distribution of the ß-catenin destruction complex in the mammalian intestine.”
The Annual MB Graduate Student Symposium was held at The Oread on August 18th with guest speaker Mary Dasso as this year’s John C. Davis Memorial Lecture speaker. Her seminar was entitled, “Poring over the Nuclear Pore: Nucleoporin functions in interphase and mitosis.”
