RECENT HAPPENINGS AT SER-CAT
Dear Visitor,
This page is used to update you on SER-CAT related activities that occur between issues of our biannual newsletter The SER-CAT Spectrum. These items will be covered in more detail in our next issue. Back issues of our newsletter are also available. We are always looking for additional topics and interviews, so if you have a news item or recent achievement you would like to be published, please let me know. Thank you!
Best Regards,
Lisa Horanyi
Assistant Editor, The SER-CAT Spectrum
Streaming Video now available at www.ser-cat.org:
For those of you who missed our segment on the TV program World Business Review, which aired in February on the Bravo network, you can now view the segment at our website or by following the links below. We have already received a lot of positive feedback on the film, which has proven to be a valuable publicity tool for our program. If you would like a copy on CD or DVD for your personal use or to distribute to others, please let us know.
SER-CAT Symposium
Our second annual symposium, held Friday, March 18, at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, brought in a diverse group of approximately 50 participants from both member and outside institutions, from senior scientists to graduate students. In addition to the scientific program, attendees had the opportunity to tour the facilities and learn more about the history behind the founding of St. Jude Hospital. Thank you to Stephen White and Dayna Baker at St. Jude and others who organized this enjoyable event. More details about the symposium will be reported in our summer issue of The SER-CAT Spectrum.
SER-CAT Science and Young Investigator Awards
The SER-CAT Science Awards were presented for the first time at our scientific symposium. Lorena Beese of Duke University received the SER-CAT Outstanding Science Award recognizing the scientific impact of her work in DNA polymerase studies related to the understanding of cancers and aging, as published in Nature and Cell. The SER-CAT Young Investigator Award was presented to Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc of the National Cancer Institute recognizing her work on RIO serine kinases, which was recently published in Structure. Both award recipients gave an overview of their research at the symposium.