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<h2>Recent Lab News</h2>
<p>6/2009</p>
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<li><name>Shan Gao</name> and <name>Oren Shur</name> both presented poster presentations at the 3rd Annual Advances in Biomolecular Engineering: Protein Design Symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences.</li>
<li><name>Mark Blenner</name> gave a talk entitled "Intrinsically Disordered RTX Motifs as Scaffolds for Engineering Allosterically Controlled Biomolecular Recognition" at the Chemical Biology: Year End Discussion Meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences.</li>
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<p>5/2009</p>
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<li><name>Doris Glykys</name> successfully defended her PhD thesis, the second from the Banta group. Her thesis was entitled "Modeling and engineering of oxidoreductase proteins for miniaturized energy applications". Congratulations Dr. Glykys!</li>
<li><name>Professor Banta</name> gave a research seminar entitled "Protein Engineering for Biosensors and Biofuel Cells" in the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.</li>
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<p>4/2009</p>
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<li><name>Oren Shur</name> and <name>Flora Felsovalyi</name> both successfully defended their thesis proposals. And, <name>Asli Sahin</name> passed her qualifying exam. Congratulations guys!</li>
<li>A paper entitled "Development of a bacteriophage-based system for the selection of structured peptides" by <name>Chockalingam, Lu and Banta</name> was published in <journal>Analytical Biochemistry</journal>.</li>
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<p>3/2009</p>
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<li><name>Professor Banta</name> has been awarded a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for a new state-of-the-art Fast Performance Liquid Chromatography (FPLC) system.</li>
<li>A paper entitled "Bifunctional chimeric fusion proteins engineered for DNA delivery: Optimization of the protein to DNA ratio" by <name>Gao, Simon, Morrison III and Banta</name> was published in <journal>Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects</journal>.</li>
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<p>2/2009</p>
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<li>A paper entitled "Metabolic Control Analysis of an Enzymatic Biofuel Cell" by <name>Glykys and Banta</name> was published in <journal>Biotechnology and Bioengineering</journal>.</li>
<li><name>Ian Wheeldon</name> successfully defended his PhD thesis, the first from the Banta group. The thesis was entitled "Bifunctional protein building blocks for functional hydrogel assembly" and Ian was awarded a Dissertation with Distinction. Congratulations Dr. Wheeldon!</li>
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<p>1/2009</p>
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<li>A platform talk and two posters from the Banta Lab were presented at the Society for Biological Engineers Second International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering in Santa Barbara, CA. The talk, given by <name>Professor Banta</name> was entitled "Enzymatic and Bioactive Hydrogels from Proteinaceous Bifunctional Building Blocks". <name>Mark Blenner</name> presented a poster entitled "The Beta Roll Peptide as a Reversible, Calcium Sensitive, and Modular Scaffold for Engineering Allosteric Control of Biomolecular Recognition" and <name>Professor Banta</name> presented the second poster entitled "Protein Engineering of a Thermostable Alcohol Dehydrogenase to Alter Cofactor and Substrate Specificities".</li>
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