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‘Life as Research Scientist’: Angel Byrd, Cell Biologist

By BlogArenaJuly 10, 2013Education, Interview, Media, Scienceadult obesity, african american population, angel byrd, anti fungal response, asbmb, behavioral factors, Bible, brown university, callaway high school, candida albicans, capitol hill, cell biologist, childhood, diabetes, ecm, edwards, eli lilly, evening of stars, extracellular matrix, fn, gates millennium scholarship, genada, genome, growth in christ, hall of fame, hbcu, hiv, homotypic aggregation, human neutrophils, jackson, jackson heart study, jhs, jonathan byrd, lattice of dna, letitia wallace, life, marcus wallace, matrix component fibronectin, md, microbicidal enzymes, Mississippi, ms, myron smith, net release, nets, neutrophil aggregation, neutrophil extracellular traps, neutrophil respiratory, neutrophils, pathobiology program, pathogens, pathophysiology, phd, protein tyrosine phosphatase, ptp 1b, regina ranavirus, research in china, research scientist, risk factor, rrv, stepfather, tougaloo college, type 2 diabetes, uncf, united states, willie jean byrd, β glucan

For years, Brown University M.D./Ph.D. student Angel Byrd had dedicated herself to studying how immune system cells capture invading fungal pathogens. Like those cells, called neutrophils, she had seized on seemingly every opportunity that had come her way.

In high school she was the valedictorian and won a 10-year Gates Millennium Scholarship. As an undergrad at Tougaloo College she earned the opportunity to do summer research in China on gene expression and was named a Leadership Alliance scholar. Later at Brown she earned a research internship at drug giant Eli Lilly, and has piled up awards for research posters. Twice she met with senators and representatives on Capitol Hill on behalf of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. And after she won a coveted United Negro College Fund/Merck Graduate Fellowship in 2011, she sparkled on televisions around the country in a segment featuring her on BET.

Recently we spoke with Miss Byrd to know more about her research work, why this is important, and how life as a research scientist is. But before proceeding with our questions to Miss Byrd, let us learn on her childhood from her own words: (more…)

Above other awards: the pride of publication

By Guest PostMay 22, 2013Scienceangel byrd, brown university, candida albicans, China, clumping behavior, courtney johnson, cr3, DNA, dna like spiderman, ecm, ecm protein fibronectin, eli lilly, extracellular matrix, fungal pathogens, gates millennium scholarship, gene expression, hiv patients, immune system cells, jonathan reichner, liz lavigne, neutrophils, pathology in washington, paul kubes, phd student, publication, receptor on neutrophils, rhode island hospital, tendril like hyphae, tougaloo college, united states, xian obrien

Dedicated, passionate and energetic, M.D./Ph.D. student Angel Byrd has earned many accolades and research opportunities. But she only recently won a young scientist’s most coveted prize: publication as lead author of a paper highly esteemed by her colleagues.

Well on her way to fulfilling her dreams both in research and medicine, Brown University M.D./Ph.D. student Angel Byrd nevertheless had recently begun to define herself by what was missing, said her adviser, Dr. Jonathan Reichner, associate professor of surgery (research) at Rhode Island Hospital. She still wasn’t a published author.

For years she had dedicated herself to studying how immune system cells capture invading fungal pathogens. Like those cells, called neutrophils, she had seized on seemingly every opportunity that had come her way. (more…)

A Better Way to Culture Central Nervous Cells

By Guest PostJanuary 31, 2013Sciencealzheimer's disease, alzheimers patients, amyloid plaques, apoe2, apoe3, apoe4 apolipoprotein, apolipoprotein e 4, better way, biomaterials, brain, brown university, central nervous cells, cholesterols, cns, culture, ecm, extracellular matrix, growing neurons, hallmarks, implant, janice vicenty, kwang min kim, lab grown cells, laminin, leadership alliance, mammalian cns neurons, method, model, natural environment, nerve cells, nerve signals, neurodegenerative diseases, neurofibrillary tangles, neuron damage, palmore lab, protein, protein rich scaffold, puerto rico, rat hippocampal cells, spinal cord, summer research fellow, tayhas palmore, university

A protein associated with neuron damage in Alzheimer’s patients provides a superior scaffold for growing central nervous system cells in the lab. The findings could have clinical implications for producing neural implants and offers new insights on the complex link between the apoE4 apolipoprotein and Alzheimer’s disease. Results appear in the journal Biomaterials.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A protein associated with neuron damage in people with Alzheimer’s disease is surprisingly useful in promoting neuron growth in the lab, according to a new study by engineering researchers at Brown University. The findings, in press at the journal Biomaterials, suggest a better method of growing neurons outside the body that might then be implanted to treat people with neurodegenerative diseases. (more…)

Berkeley Lab Researchers Discover a Rotational Motion of Cells that Plays a Critical Role in Their Normal Development

By Guest PostJanuary 29, 2012Science3d gel, acini, actomyosin, alexandre bruni cardoso, berkeley lab, breast cancer, breast feeding, camo, cell biology, cellular motion, coherent angular motion, component, counterclockwise, cytoskeleton, ecm, embryogenesis, evolutionary phenomena, extracellular matrix, function, hidetoshi mori, human epithelial cell, kandice tanner, laminin, mammary cell, mammary gland, microenvironment, mina bissell, multicellular organism, phenotypic reversion, protein, rana mroue, rotation, spherical structure, tissue polarity

In a study that holds major implications for breast cancer research as well as basic cell biology, scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a rotational motion that plays a critical role in the ability of breast cells to form the spherical structures in the mammary gland known as acini. This rotation, which the researchers call “CAMo,” for coherent angular motion, is necessary for the cells to form spheres. Without CAMo, the cells do not form spheres, which can lead to random motion, loss of structure and malignancy.

”What is most exciting to me about this stunning discovery is that it may finally give us a handle by which to discover the physical laws of cellular motion as they apply to biology,” says Mina Bissell, a leading authority on breast cancer and Distinguished Scientist with Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division. (more…)

IBM Acquires Datacap

By Guest PostAugust 10, 2010Technologydatacap, ecm, electronic health record, enterprise content management, healthcare, her, ibm, petabytes, ron ercanbrack, sarbanes-oxley, scott blau, tarrytown

ARMONK, N.Y. – 10 Aug 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the acquisition of Datacap Inc., a privately-held company based in Tarrytown, NY. Datacap is a leading provider of software that enables organizations to transform the way they capture, manage and automate the flow of business information to improve business processes, reduce paper costs or manual errors and meet compliance mandates. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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‘Life as Research Scientist’: Angel Byrd, Cell Biologist

Above other awards: the pride of publication

A Better Way to Culture Central Nervous Cells

Berkeley Lab Researchers Discover a Rotational Motion of Cells that Plays a Critical Role in Their Normal Development

IBM Acquires Datacap