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    The following is a listing of persons earning MS and PhD degrees through the graduate program in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota. The date column contains the date of the thesis defense examination. The name of the major advisor is given in parentheses. The academic year is defined as 9/1 through 8/31. Dates in brackets indicate official University of Minnesota Degree Award date.

    2000-2001 Academic Year
    Name Date Thesis Comments
    Chang, Shou-Lin 1/26/01 [1/31/01] (Mayo, Lipscomb) Structure, dynamics and interaction of component B from Methane monooxygenase Shou-Lin is a Postdoctoral Associate at the National Institute of Health in February.
    Cheung, Wan-Cheung (Gabriel) 7/13/01 [7/31/01] (Van Ness) Interleukin-6 signal transduction in Multiple Myeloma Gabriel has accepted a postdoctoral, industrial position at Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. in Boston beginning August 1.
    McCornack, Melissa 4/27/01 [5/31/01] (Armitage) Structural and functional studies on Cyclophilin A, bacteriophage lambda protein phosphatase, and the DNA-binding domain of the vitamin D receptor by multinuclear, multidimensional NMR Melissa will begin postdoctoral research at Texas A&M, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in May.
    Monroe, David George 9/7/00 [9/29/00] (Sanders) Estrogen opposes apoptosis by repressing BMP-7 and initiator caspase gene transcription David Monroe is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Thomas Spelsberg at the Mayo Clinic. He is working on the role of estrogen in bone homeostatis.
    Nasevicius, Aidas 5/9/01 [5/31/01] (Ekker) Wnt signaling pathway in early zebrafish development NA
    Oz, Gulin 6/15/01 [7/31/01] (Armitage) Structural and dynamic studies of a brain specific growth inhibitory factor: Metallothionein-3 Gulin will begin postdoctoral work in the area of in vivo NMR at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at the University of Minnesota.
    Patzlaff, Jason S. 12/14/00 [12/29/00] (Barry, Brooker) Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy studies of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli Jason is doing postdoctoral work at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands with the group of Dr. Bert Poolman.
    Peterson, Aidan 11/16/00 [11/30/00] (Simon) SPM domain interactions are required for transcriptional repression during fly development NA
    Raymond, Christopher 12/1/00 [12/29/00] (Zarkower) Conservation of sex-determining mechanisms NA
    Reese, Amy J. 12/12/00 [9/28/01] (Banaszak) Adipocyte lipid binding protein mutations: In search of binding determinants Amy is a Postdoctoral Associate at Washington University in St. Louis.
    Sakai, Keiko 6/26/01 [7/31/01] (Siliciano) Prp40p functions in the fidelity of pre-mRNA splicing and early spliceosome assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Keiko will now begin a postdoctoral position with the National Institutes of Health.
    Stamm, John 8/31/01 (Thomas) Structural studies of phospholamban and its interactions with the Ca-ATPase John completed work in the Thomas lab and is now a Postdoctorial Associate at UCLA with Wayne Hubbell.
    Sumanas, Saulius 11/8/00 [11/30/00] (Ekker) Xenopus frizzled-7 is required for vertebrate axis specification NA
    Vetting, Matthew W. 3/12/01 [5/31/01] (Ohlendorf) Crystallographic studies of intradiol dioxygenases Matt is currently working at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the lab of Steve Roderick.
    Wallar, Bradley J. 12/21/00 [12/29/00] (Lipscomb) Probing the interactions between component B and the hydroxylase of methane monooxygenase Bradley is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Van Andel Research Institute in Michigan.
    Wolfe, Matt 12/12/00 [12/29/00] (Lipscomb) Kinetic and spectroscopic studies of Rieske Dioxygenase Catalysis Matt is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Health.
    Yi, Woelsung 2/27/01 [2/28/01] (Zarkower) The molecular analysis of the male sexual regulator mab-3 in C. elegans male development NA
    Zhao, Fangyi 3/28/01 [7/31/01] (Louis) Structural and functional studies of ryanodine receptor Ca2 + release channel Fangyi wiill begin postdoctoral work in the Brian Van Ness laboratory for an indeterminate period of time.