Columbus Labs

Ashely Keller receives the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award

Linda — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:32:36 +0000

The Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards Program, administered by the Faculty Senate, funds outstanding undergraduate research projects in the spring and/or summer for current second and third-year undergraduate students. Ashley received her award to continue her successful work on Inc proteins (IncA) of Chlamydia trachomatis. Forty awards of up to $3,000 each are granted on a competitive basis.

Ashley Keller

Linda — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:03:28 +0000

Undergraduate Student - Third Year

Chemistry major

Ashley is working on expressing and purifying a clean sample of Inclusion Membrane Protein A (IncA) of Chlamydia Trachomatis. She plans to develop an effective purification protocol that will result in a gratifying sample for NMR structural studies. She would like to determine the structure of IncA.

Undergraduates receive summer research awards

Linda — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:45:03 +0000

Thien Nguyen (Bass Scholarship), Rita Digrazia (Bass Scholarship), and Ashley Keller (Departement Fellowship) received awards to conduct research this summer.

Lab Featured on UVA Today

Linda — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:35:51 +0000

Linda Columbus Investigates Cell Membranes With Large New Grants

Dan presents at the SCBB Biophysics Retreat

Linda — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:28:56 +0000

On January 15th, Dan Fox was invited to give a talk at the UVA Structural & Computational Biology and Biophysics Biophysics Program Retreat. He presented his progress towards the NMR structure determination of OpaI

Ryan Lo

Linda — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:04:52 +0000

Graduate Student

BA: Chemistry, Franklin and Marshall College (2009)
Ryan worked with Dr. Rick Moog on determining the Kamlet-Taft solvent parameters for various micellar environments.

Ryan’s research aims to investigate the effects of detergents on the structure and function of membrane proteins.

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Alison receives travel award

Linda — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:57:55 +0000

Alison received a Biophysical Society 2010 Student Travel Award and was chosen for a platform talk”The Spontaneous Refolding of Opacity-Associated Proteins into Lipid Membranes” at the 54th annual meeting in February

Adrian Gaty

Linda — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:39:18 +0000

Visiting Scientist

BA: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2007)

Current research: Adrian is working on optimizing mixed detergent conditions to facilitate structural studies of membrane proteins.

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Columbus Lab receives NSF CAREER Award

Linda — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:32:08 +0000

CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education.

CAREER: An Innovative Study of Membrane Protein - Detergent Interactions was awarded through the Biomolecular Systems Program through the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.

Golda Harris

Linda — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:44:25 +0000