Congratulations to EMRLab students Manuela Ayee and Charles Roth on their recent (and first, for both students!) publication, Structural perturbation of a dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayer by warfarin and its bolaamphiphilic analogue: A molecular dynamics study . The manuscript appears in the April 2016 issue of the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science.
Strategic enrichment grant for interdisciplinary work in systems biology and quantitative genetics
PI Akpa and colleagues have been awarded funds to support an interdisciplinary research effort blending systems biology, quantitative genetics, and immunology. (Announcement)
Project title: A systems biology approach to assess host transcriptomics and virus kinetics in reproductive gilts in the face of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome.
Lead PIs: Belinda Akpa (CVM) & Nick Serão (CALS)
Co-PIs: Johnathan Fogle, Glen Almond, Mark Knaeur
Our thanks to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Veterinary Medicine for their support!
Seminar @Clemson University’s Department of Chemistry
Dr Akpa thanks the wonderful people at Clemson Chemistry for hosting her for a day of discussing fluorescent nanoparticles, peptoids, antioxidants and more before her seminar on ‘Math + Biochemistry + Physiology: An examination of toxicity and lipid-mediated toxicity reversal using integrative physiological models’.
NCSU Biomathematics Seminar
Tuesday, Oct 13 @ 4:15PM. Dr Akpa will join NCSU’s mathematical biologists to discuss the use of math, biochemistry, and physiology to interrogate differential toxicity.
Seminar @ the University of Iowa’s Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
On October 1st, Dr Akpa spent a day with engineers and pharmaceutical scientists at the University of Iowa, where she gave a talk entitled: “Physiologically based dynamic models reveal the multi-functional nature of antidotal lipid emulsions”. She thanks the faculty and students of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering for a great day in Iowa City.
Setting up shop with the Synthetic and Systems Biology Cluster and the College of Veterinary Medicine
Dr Akpa joins the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at North Carolina State University. Hired as an Assistant Professor of Integrated Synthetic and Systems Biology, Prof Akpa joins engineers, biologists and others as part of an interdisciplinary cluster through the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program.