News http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/home.aspx http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification mojoPortal Blog Module 120 Professor Ramamoorthy receives a Faculty Recognition Award The Faculty Recognition Awards recognize those who have demonstrated substantive contributions to the University through significant achievements in scholarly research and/or creative endeavors; excellence as a teacher, advisor and mentor; and distinguished participation in service activities.

 

Congtratulations, Rams!

]]> http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/professor-ramamoorthy-receives-a-faculty-recognition-award.aspx http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/professor-ramamoorthy-receives-a-faculty-recognition-award.aspx http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/professor-ramamoorthy-receives-a-faculty-recognition-award.aspx Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:27:00 GMT Preventing Diabetes Damage: Zinc's Effects On a Kinky, Two-Faced Cohort Read the ScienceDaily Science News article published on Samer's recent paper: here.

We also wish Samer farewell and wish him the best in medical school!

]]> http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/preventing-diabetes-damage-zincs-effects-on-a-kinky-two-faced-cohort.aspx http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/preventing-diabetes-damage-zincs-effects-on-a-kinky-two-faced-cohort.aspx http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/preventing-diabetes-damage-zincs-effects-on-a-kinky-two-faced-cohort.aspx Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:53:00 GMT The JACS Image Challenge #106 was drawn from Pieter's recent dendrimer publication! Try to see if you can solve the challenge here!

You can also access the original publication here.

]]> http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/the-jacs-image-challenge-106-was-drawn-from-pieters-recent-dendrimer-publication.aspx http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/the-jacs-image-challenge-106-was-drawn-from-pieters-recent-dendrimer-publication.aspx http://rams.biop.lsa.umich.edu/the-jacs-image-challenge-106-was-drawn-from-pieters-recent-dendrimer-publication.aspx Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:09:00 GMT Avanti Polar Lipics, Inc. Begins Selling a New Type of Lipids Based on Research Done in Our Lab! Avanti is now selling 14:0 PE-DTPA(Cu) lipids. The addition of these lipids to their catalog was inspired by exciting research performed in our lab! This is outstanding vallidation that the research done in the Ramamoorthy lab is extremely important and relevant in both the NMR and biological fields. A detailed pdf brochure can be downloaded by following this link.

"Inclusion of copper (Cu2+) ions in bicelles in the form of a lipid chelate resulted in a 10-fold T1 reduction and 2.7-fold increase in S/N of spectra for static experiments. This improvement would allow 2D experiments on membrane proteins in aligned lipid bilayers that typically take 3 days to be completed in <1.5 days. The technique is particularly beneficial to the study of membrane disrupting/permeating systems (such as antimicrobial peptides, toxins, amyloid peptides, and fusion peptides) whose concentration cannot be increased, as they result in nonlamellar conditions."

 

Copper

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- Covered in the News Service of the University of Michigan

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