March 18th, Workshops and Poster Session:
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The St. Jude – SER–CAT Structural Biology Symposium website is live; Full Agenda is available on website!
Endogenous DNA 3' Blocks Are Vulnerabilities for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Deficiency and Are Reversed by the APE2 Nuclease.
The 2021 SER-CAT Outstanding Science Award will be presented to Dr. R. Scott Williams, of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC, USA, for his outstanding work entitled: Endogenous DNA 3' Blocks Are Vulnerabilities for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Deficiency and Are Reversed by the APE2 Nuclease.
Award will be presented by: SER-CAT Director Professor Bi-Cheng Wang.
Disruption of evolutionarily correlated tRNA elements impairs accurate decoding.
The 2021 SER-CAT Young Investigator Award will be presented to Ha An Nguyen, of Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA, for her outstanding work entitled: Disruption of evolutionarily correlated tRNA elements impairs accurate decoding.
Award will be presented by: SER-CAT Director Professor Bi-Cheng Wang.
Inhibition of the Complement Alternative Pathway by Chemically Modified DNA Aptamers That Bind with Picomolar Affinity to Factor B.
The complement system is a conserved component of innate immunity that fulfills diverse roles in defense and homeostasis. Inappropriate activation of complement contributes to many inflammatory diseases, however, which has led to a renewed emphasis on development of therapeutic complement inhibitors. Activation of complement component C3 is required for amplification of complement and is achieved through two multisubunit proteases called C3 convertases...
Foundational Role in Development of COVID-19 Vaccines.
While the rapid availability of COVID-19 vaccines, so soon after the outbreak of the disease, stands as a truly amazing achievement, many of the foundational steps underpinning the development of these drugs were based upon research dating back several years. Parts of that work were performed by Dr. Peter Kwong and his colleagues, of the NIH Vaccine Research Center, using the SER-CAT beamlines located at the APS, and operated by the University of Georgia.
An APS User News review, outlining the progress of this research, was recently published online by the APS.
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