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Judith Frydman (Stanford), Michael Hall (Biozentrum, Basel) and Erin Schuman (MPI Brain Research, Frankfurt) named as new VVPs.
Clockwise from top left: Elaine Fuchs, Gunnar von Heijne, Stephen Sligar and Wade Harper.
for his pioneering work on the structure and function of extracellular surface layers that surround and protect prokaryotic cells.
Edward Dennis spoke about how membranes interact allosterically with enzymes in his Vallee Lecture at the ASBMB Annual Meeting in April.
in recognition of their outstanding work in the fields of bio-organic chemistry (Benkovic) and RNA and structural biology (Conti).
Talking Science
Talking Science with Dr Melissa Harrison
Vallee Scholar Melissa Harrison, PhD, talks about the research in her lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr Harrison's lab uses the fruit fly - drosophila melanogaster - to look closely at the developmental transitions from DNA to adult cells. Her lab shut down for three months in early 2020 because of the pandemic, but - with some modifications - has been able to function pretty much at capacity since then.
Talking Science With Dr Andrew Kruse
While many research laboratories around the country were shut down last spring, work related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus has continued apace. Vallee Scholar Andrew Kruse, PhD, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, who is interested in the mechanistic basis for protein-to-protein interactions, recently spoke about his work using a library of synthetic, yeast-based antibodies he has developed.