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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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2012 Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award Symposium
In honor of Kensal E. van Holde, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University
P. Shing Ho, Colorado State University
George Rose, Johns Hopkins University - “Ken van Holde, Organic Osmolytes, and Protein Folding”
Sanford Leuba, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - “Chromatin, Nucleosomes and Molecular Motors, One-at-a-time”
Raquel Lieberman, Georgia Institute of Technology - “Structural and Biophysical Insights into the Glaucoma-associated Olfactomedin Domain of Myocilin”
Cynthia McMurray, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - “Genetics and Pathophysiology of Huntington's Disease: A Two-state Mechanism”
Barbara Shaw, Duke University - “Seminal Discoveries from Ken's Lab on Nucleosomes and Their Relevance Today
Nicholas Hud, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Biophysical Studies of Nucleic Acid Assembly in Natural and Unnatural Systems”
Jeffrey Hansen, Colorado State University - “Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Defined Chromatin Model Systems”
Adegboyega Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology - “Zinc Metalloproteins, Epigenetic Histone Acetylation and mRNA Splicing - Lesson from Small Molecule Probes”
Patrick Varga-Weisz, Nuclear Dynamics ISP, Babrahim Institute - “Peter Pan, Boys and Girls: Lessons from Chromatin Remodeling”
RSVP by Friday, October 19
Cecelia Jones at sigmaxi@me.gatech.edu
