Lab News
December, 2009: Our University of Connecticut collaborators came to visit UNLV. This was a productive visit. Marty gave a short talk to the Nevada Board of Reagents on the labs research. Our lab proposed a new Bioinformatics division in the School of Life Sciences, which is supported by serveral faculty in the deparment.
November, 2009: The lab had a party for Thanksgiving. The laboratory presented a poster at the Human Proteome Organization on minimotif semantics. Marty went to the school of Life Sciences faculty retreat.
October, 2009: We welcome Sandeep Deverasetty to the lab who will be working as a computer programmer/Database Administrator. The laboratory also received and ARRA supplement for our grant on minimotifs in HIV. An article in the Las Vegas Sun featured the resarch of our lab.
September, 2009: We welcome a bunch of new undergraduates (Sahar Azim , Izua Alaniz , Caroline Chang , Farah Chowdhury , Keith Chung , Teinesha Irvey , Kate Keesling , Dave Lacambacal , Darlene Lara , Brian Lempa , Kyle Martin , Thomas Meusburger , Shruti Patel , Jacqueline Phan , Viraj Rathnayake , Brandon Roe , , Sherrie Serranno , Briana Sugihara , Thao Hoang , Paula Watts , Dayne West , Anike Zalyte , Stephanie Zobrist , Mike Rogers , Melissa Cope , Alex Spelman) to the new UNLV lab. Dave Sargeant from Computer Science also joined the laboratory as a graduate student. We also moved into our new lab in WHI 119 and new Office in WHI 117.
August, 2009: Dr. Prashant Singh joined the lab to work on a Stem cell related project. Welcome aboard. We also released a new application called Venn (download page, publication). Our paper proposing a functional syntax for Minimotifs was also accepted. Congrats to student Jay Vyas who was the first author on both papers which were accepted on the same day, forever designated as JayDay. We formed a grant club of investigators at UNLV that meets weekly with the goal of increasing UNLV funding and resources. A description of Marty Schiller lab moving to UNLV
July, 2009: The Schiller Lab has moved the University of Nevada Las Vegas in the School of Life Sciences.
June, 2009: An abstract for the HUPO 2009 congress on Minimotif semantics was accepted. Marty Schiller is serving on NIH study section for review of Challenge Grants. Marty will give a talk on the new release of MnM-HIV at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Groups Studying the Structures of AIDS-Related Systems and Their Application to Targeted Drug Design sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The 2nd annual Gryk-Schiller beach party was a success. We enjoyed some frisbee in the surf, shrimp and filet on the barby and some great company. For the second year running Jay Vyas from the Gryk lab came up short in the horse shoe competition losing to the rookie Marek Barwinski.
May, 2009: Angel Villahoz Baleta presents the MnM-HIV website at the Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling.
April, 2009: Angel Villahoz Baleta will present his work on the MnM-HIV website at the yearly MMSB retreat. MnM reaches 31,000 searches.
March, 2009: Angel Villahoz Baleta gets a beta version of MnM-HIV running. We are anticipating the first release this summer. Several groups have agreed to share data with us for the MnM-HIV website. This includes the Los Alamos National Laboratory HIV database, the Stanford HIV Drug Resistance Database, Southern Research Institute HIV Protein-Protein Interaction database, and NIST HIV Structure database. We welcome these new collaborations. Shawn Li will visit UCHC and give a talk on his work on minimotifs. Diana Finzi, our NIAID program officer has been a great asset in helping us on the MnM-HIV project- Thank you. We welcome Rinu Thomas to the lab who will be working on the new stem cell database project. Schiller/Gryk labs start a joint weekly journal club.
February, 2009: Marty Schiller gives talk at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Bioinformatics Department. Marek Barwinski joins the lab and is starting a project solving the structure of several SH2 domains in collaboration with a long time collaborator in MMSB, Mark Maciejewski. Welcome Marek. Marty Schiller serves on the Connecticut Academy of Science Review Panel.
January, 2009: Marty Schiller gives talk at University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Life Sciences.
December, 2008: A new version of Minimotif Miner was released MnM 2. The new release was published in the Database issue of Nucleic Acids Research. Jay Vyas and Krishna present their progress talks in the MMSB department.
November, 2008: Lab recieves a collaborative University grant with Drs. Craig Nelson at the University of Connecticut and Michael Gryk, a long time collaborator in the MMSB deparment. This goal of this seed grant is to develop a stem cell database.
October, 2008: Marty Schiller gives talk on motifs and the New England Structure Biology Symposium.
August, 2008: Angel Villahoz Baleta joins the laboratory to work on the new Minimotif miner HIV website. Angel comes to us from the Bioinformatics department at the University of Alabama whre he received a Masters. Debbie Jiang and Matt had a good time in their summer lab fellowships. We all wish them well. People (from left to right) Mike Gryk, Jay Vyas, MArty Schiller, Debbie Jiang, Matt Babcock, Krishna Kadaveru, Sonali Kadaveru.
July, 2008: Paper on the role of Kalirin spectrin repeats published in Experimental Cell research and listed as a featured article. Marty was elected to Research Council. RJ Nowling, finishes his sucessful summer project to, yes, study dolphin fins. He will be back. First Schiller-Gryk lab summer beach party at Rocky Neck State Park was a lot of fun. Some Pics are below:
The Krishna-Jay horseshoe grudge match was won by Krishna (middle pic), Jays horseshoe rolling technique will need some work. As the loser, Jay will contribute to the general lab fund for buying a summer beach house for next year.
June, 2008: Matt Babcock and Debbie Jiang join the lab for the summer to work on the relationship of Kalirin and TrkA. Lab is awarded Grant to identify potential motif drug targets in HIV R21AI078708-01
May, 2008: RJ Nowling, joins the lab to work on an interaface to the expert system for annotating motifs in Minimotif Miner.
April, 2008: Jay Vyas and Marty Schiller present Minimotif Miner projects at the Molecular, Microbial, and Structural Biology retreat. Krishna Kadaveru presented his poster, and Martin Schiller was a Co-organizer of this event.
March, 2008: Krishna Kadaveru and Jay Vyas get their first paper. See here. Schiller lab joins with the Gryk and Maciejewski labs to form the Biological System Modeling Group
February, 2008: Shahana Abdullah joins the lab.
Winter, 2008: Martin Schiller gets promoted to Associate Professor
Fall, 2007: Krishna Kadaveru recieves Fellowship from UConn Partnership for Excellence in Structural Biology
Fall, 2007: Jay Vyas comes to the lab for a research rotation
Summer, 2007: Krishna Kadaveru joins the lab. Go Krishna
Spring, 2006: Kaiser J (2006) News report about Minimotif miner website. Science 311:925 PDF
Spring, 2006: J. Proteome Res. (2006) News report about Minimotif miner website. PDF