March 5th, 2014 "Chemical Biology"
Dr. Helen Berman is the director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank – one of the member organizations of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank and a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. A structural biologist, her work includes structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes, and the role of water in molecular interactions. She is also the founder and director of the Nucleic Acid Database, and leads the Protein Structure Initiative Structural Genomics Knowledgebase. Dr. Berman received her Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh in 1967.
Links to the Protein Database and Teaching Resources.
Links to the Protein Database and Teaching Resources.
January 22nd, 2014 "Soil Microbial Ecology"
Dr. Craig Phelps is a professor of Environmental Science at the Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus. His research interests include soil microbial biology and systems science. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 1998. He served as co-chair of the North Eastern Microbiologists: Physiology, Ecology, and Taxonomy society from 2001-2011.
Dr. Craig Phelps's Website
Dr. Craig Phelps's Website
February 5th, 2014 "Microbiology: Bacteria & Phytoplankton Interactions"
Dr. Kay Bidle is an Assistant Professor at IMCS, Rutgers University . Dr. Bidle is one of several IMCS scientists who extensively study microbes in the oceans, especially phytoplankton. He came to Rutgers in 2001 from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla , CA where he received his PhD in Marine Biology. Kay won the 2005 Raymond A. Lindeman Award, an international recognition given by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, for the best scientific research paper by a young oceanographer.
Dr. Kay Bidle's Website
Dr. Kay Bidle's Website