Grad students and postdocs: Tell us what resources you need and enter to win a $150 Amazon gift card. Take the survey. July 24: Membrane-Anchored Serine Proteases Symposium late breaking deadline. Kinases and Pseudokinases Symposium: Now accepting abstracts for oral programming consideration. JBC Thematic Minireview Series - Metals at the Host-Pathogen Interface

June 9, 2015This seventh Metals in Biology Thematic Series deals with the metal-based interactions of mammalian hosts with pathogens. Both pathogens and host have complex regulatory systems for metal homeostasis. Understanding these provides strategies for fighting pathogens, either by excluding essential metals from the microbes, by delivery of excess metals to cause toxicity, or by complexing metals in microorganisms. Intervention is possible by delivery of complexing reagents or by targeting the microbial regulatory apparatus.

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May 15, 2015The study of cytoskeletal polymers has been an active area of research for more than 70 years. Yet, despite decades of pioneering work by some of the brightest scientists in biochemistry, cell biology and physiology, many central questions regarding the polymers themselves are only now starting to be answered. In this thematic series of mini-reviews, these topics are covered by some of the very same scientists who generated these recent insights, thereby providing us with an overview of the State of the Cytoskeleton in 2015.

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced 15 scientist-educators who have been named HHMI professors. Each will receive $1 million over five years "to create activities that integrate their research with student learning in ways that enhance students' understanding of science." Forty scientists have been named HHMI professors since the program began in 2002.

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