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Redox Biology Center (RBC)

2012 Annual Retreat

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Summer REU Program

REU Program begins June 4, 2012

International Redox Biology Graduate Course

Come to Sweden with the Redox Biology Center June 11-15, 2012.

The Redox Biology Center (RBC) is organized as a broad-based interdisciplinary and multi-institutional entity involving researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha (UNMC). The RBC is funded by the National Institute of Health grant P20 RR017675 from the COBRE program of the National Center for Research Resources.
 

The specific aims of the COBRE-supported Redox Biology Center (RBC) are to buttress and expand the existing strengths in redox biology in Nebraska by mentoring junior faculty to success, recruiting new faculty with complementary research interests and strategically enhancing biomedical research structure. Scientists are amalgamated from two major research institutions in the state (UNL and UNMC).
 

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 Research Technician Position Available

Dr. Nicole Buan is currently accepting inquires for a research technician to join her lab.

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The Redox Biology Center currently has several postdoctoral opportunities available.

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Membership

The Redox Biology Center welcomes applications from faculty at UNL or UNMC who are interested in being considered for membership. We are particularly interested in further broadening our base to include members whose research interests are in the general area of redox biology and who would benefit from and contribute to the activities sponsored by the RBC. Faculty interested in becoming a member of the Center should contact Dr. Donald Becker (dbecker3@unl.edu or 402-472-9652).

 

 

Biochemistry Department/Redox Biology Center Presents: Dr. Carol Casey

Dr. Carol CaseyAs part of the Biochemistry Department and Redox Biology Center Spring Seminar Series, Dr. Carol Casey, Research Career Scientist at the Omaha Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.  Dr. Casey will present “Trapping the Fats: Role of Alcohol in Impaired Lipid Droplet Trafficking and Metabolism in Liver” May 8, 2012 at 4PM room N172 Beadle Center. The lectures in the series are free and open to faculty, staff and students.

Dr. Casey has been actively involved in the field of alcoholic liver injury for the past 25 years, with special emphasis on alcohol’s deleterious effects on protein trafficking. Her laboratory is well known for its contributions in this area, especially on a role for functional asialoglycoprotein receptor in the pathogenesis of liver injury. In particular, Dr. Casey has used in vitro biochemical-based experimentation combined with in vivo animal models to define important effects of toxin (including ethanol) exposure on endocytic internalization and recycling of hepatocyte receptors. In 2009 Dr. Casey received funding through the Challenge program (RC1) to extend her lab’s studies to effects of ethanol on the trafficking of lipid droplets. This grant was funded for 2 years as part of a Multiple PI (MPI) application with Dr. Mark McNiven at Mayo, and has recently received a new NIH grant (through September of 2016) in this area of research. Currently, in addition to work on trafficking of lipid droplets in liver cells, her lab is examining a link between functional hepatic asialoglycoprotein receptor and progression of colon cancer.

 

Up Coming Events

May 8, 2012- Biochemistry Department/Redox Biology Center Spring Seminar Series: Trapping the Fats: Role of Alcohol in Impaired Lipid Droplet Trafficking and Metabolism in Liver, Dr. Carol Casey, Research Career Scientist at the Omaha Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. 4 pm, N172 Beadle Center.

 May 15, 2012 - Biochemistry Department/Redox Biology Center Spring Seminar Series: Central Oxidative Stress in Chronic Heart Failure: Modulation by Exercise Training, Dr. Irving Zucker, Professor and Chairman, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, UNMC.  4 pm, N172 Beadle Center.

May 21, 2012 - Redox Biology Center Work-in-Progress Seminar: Dr. Oleh Khalimonchuk will present "Mechanisms of heme biosynthesis and assembly".  11:30 am, E228 Beadle Center.

More seminars are scheduled for Spring 2012, for more information please visit our events page.

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