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Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Areas of Strength at UNL. Microbiology Virology Bacteriology Redox Biology Biochemistry Vet Biomedicine. MICROBIOLOGY at UNL. HIV HSV EBV KSHV VSV PRRSV HPV Bacteria Fungi. Nebraska Center for Virology.

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Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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  1. Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  2. Areas of Strength at UNL Microbiology Virology Bacteriology Redox Biology Biochemistry Vet Biomedicine

  3. MICROBIOLOGY at UNL HIV HSV EBV KSHV VSV PRRSV HPV Bacteria Fungi

  4. Nebraska Center for Virology 40 Members on 3 campuses UNL

  5. Funded by Grant P20RR15635 from the COBRE of the National Center for Research Resources $10,950,000/ 5yrs (2005-2010) Extramural Funding by NCV members since year 2000 Over 39 million (PHS funding) since incept. NIH Graduate Student and Postdoc Training Grant T32 - Training grant in Virology (UNL) Fogarty International Training Grant $2, 100,000

  6. New Virology Building Ken Morrison Research Building Groundbreaking October 4th, 2006

  7. What’s Going on in the Beadle Center?

  8. In the Beadle Center Biology Nebraska Center for Virology Biochemistry Center for Redox Biology Plant Science Biotech Center

  9. Dr. James Alfano Dr. Marjorie Lou Dr. Ruma Banerjee Dr. Stephen Ragsdale Dr. Joseph Barycki Dr. Ashraf Raza Dr. Donald Becker Dr. George Rozanski Dr. Liang-cheng Du Dr. Harold Schultz Dr. Howard Gendelman Dr. Greg Somerville Dr. Vadim Gladyshev Dr. Julie Stone Dr. Jonathan Kipnis Dr. Mark Thomas Dr. Jaekwon Lee Dr. Mark Wilson Dr. Ming-Fong Lin

  10. Microscopy Core Facility Dr. Joe Zhou, Director • microscopy imaging systems • technical support in bio-imaging • state-of-the-art equipment three new electron microscopes a BioRad MRC1024ES confocal laser scanning microscope two advanced fluorescence microscopes with video

  11. Biosafety Level 3 Facilities Beadle Center Live HIV and other virus studies East Campus Soon to be commissioned Ken Morrison Building Future

  12. Flow Cytometry Director: Dr. Charles Kuszynski Facscalibur Bead-Array 2 Locations: Danielle Shea Beadle East Campus

  13. UNL Genomics Facility Gene-chips DNA Sequencing Hybridization

  14. Structural/Protein Core UNL Department of Chemistry Director: Dr. Ronald Cerny • Exact Mass Measurement – Electron Ionization MS • Low Resolution Fast Atom Bombardment (FAB) MS • Exact Mass Measurement – FAB MS • Direct Injection (single component) Electrospray Ionization (ESI) • Liquid Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) • Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization MS (MALDI) Peptide Chrystallography Core H. Moriyama

  15. VBMS Biomedical Sciences (Animals and Humans) Epidemiology Bacteriology Virology Cell Biology Parasitology Toxicology Barletta, Raul Duhamel, Gerald E., Jones, Clinton J. Lou, Marjorie F. Moxley, Rodney A. Osorio, Fernando A. Pattnaik, Asit K., Somerville, Greg, Herpesvirus PRRSV Bacterial Path

  16. Etsuko Moriyama Steve Ladunga Mike Fromm Computer Science

  17. Pesticide Absorption into the Body Fuzzy Modeling of Skin Permeability Coefficients Transdermal Delivery of Antisense Oligonucleotides Biosignals & Systems Medical Imaging Biomedical imaging Noninvasive blood flow velocity measurement Single molecule imaging and tracking DNA sequencing instrumentation

  18. The Future at UNL? Multidisciplinary Cross-department, Cross-campus Collaborations. More Growth in Funding (despite recent NIH budget dips). Unique Niches. Areas of Collaboration? Cross-field: Nanotechnology and molecular biology, Computer modelling; complex systems Microbiology of pathogens, drug and vaccine development (Strong Chemistry and Animal Sciences).

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