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Sharona Gordon and Bill Zagotta co-chair Biophysical Society Program Committee
Sharona Gordon and Bill Zagotta are co-chairs of the Program for the 2012 Biophysical Society Meeting in San Diego. With more than 3,700 abstracts submitted, the meeting is expected to attract about 9,000 registered attendees from all over the world. Sharona and Bill worked with their Program committee to plan 21 symposia, 3 mini-symposia, and…
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Department ranks 2nd in grant support nationwide
According to data compiled by the ACDP, our department ranks 2nd in the nation in total grant support among Physiology departments nationwide. The ranking is up from 5th place last year. Funding from all sources, including NIH, NSF, HHMI and private foundations totaled almost $11.1 million in 2010.
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Albert Berger appointed Emeritus Professor
After 33 years on the PBIO faculty, Albert Berger has joined the ranks of Emeritus Professor, effective July 1, 2011. Albert joined the department in 1978, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1980 and to Professor in 1985. Trained in chemical engineering (Bachelors degree from Cornell and PhD from Princeton), he worked as a research…
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2011 Physiology & Biophysics Retreat
On September 14-15, the Department held its annual retreat (officially the H.D. Patton Symposium) at the Sleeping Lady Resort in Leavenworth, WA. Presentations by faculty, students and postdoctoral fellows and a poster session introduced their latest research results. Our featured speaker was Paul Wiggins from the UW Department of Physics. The evening featured skits by…
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Sullivan lab publishes Nature Neuroscience paper on homeostatic synaptic scaling in Alzheimer’s Disease
Jane Sullivan and her colleagues describe a new function of presenilin-1 in their paper in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience. Mutations in presinilin-1 are known to cause Familial Alzheimer’s Disease but the mechanism has remained elusive. This paper provides evidence that presenilin mutations impair the ability of neurons to recalibrate to changes in network…
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Allen Myron Scher 1921-2011
Allen M. Scher, Emeritus Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, died May 12, 2011. He was 90. His specialties were regulation of blood pressure and the physical basis of the electrocardiogram. Dr. Scher graduated with a B.A. in English from Yale, was decorated for his service in the Pacific theatre in the Marine Corps in WWII,…
Dissertation Defense
Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong