Hitchhikers Guide: 2016

We would like to thank everyone for their support for our second annual symposium! The symposium took place on May 11-12, 2012, on the campus of Purdue University. The 2016 symposium organizers were: Satarupa Bhaduri, Chen Chen, Samantha Lee, Yvon Rugema, Phillip Rushton, Valentyn Stadnytski, and faculty advisor Dr, Nicholas Noinaj.

We would also like to extend a thank you to Dr. Dr. Peter Kwong joined the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center as chief of the Structural Biology Section in the Laboratory of Virology. Dr. Kwong comes to the Washington area from New York City, where he conducted research in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University. He is joined by the two co-heads of the core, Drs. Cinque Soto and Gwo-Yu Chuang. Dr. Soto received his Ph.D. training under the mentorship of Dr. Barry Honig, Columbia University. Dr. Gwo-Yu Chuang received his Ph.D. training under the mentorship of Dr. Sandor Vajda, Boston University.​

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Internal funding sources for 2016 included: 

Department of Biological Sciences (Dr. Richard Kuhn)

Department of Biochemistry (Dr. Andrew Mesecar)

Department of Physics and Astronomy (Dr. John Finley)

Department of Chemistry (Dr. Timothy Zwier)

Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (Dr. Zhong-Yin Zhang)

The Purdue Center for Cancer Research

The Graduate School – Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

PULSe - Interdisciplinary Life Science

PGSG (Purdue Graduate Student Government) 

We would also like to thank our corporate donors for their generous sponsorship:

Millipore(Jim Henderson)

Carl Zeiss Microscopy LLC (Sam Byerly)

Molecular Dimensions (Issa Isaac)

Qiagen (Andrew Fritts)

Rigaku (Angela Criswell)

TTP Labtech (Melanie Adams)

Anatrace (Ed Pryor)

Hinds Instruments (Connie Wimmer)

Beckman Coulter (Jona Kristo)

Mitegen (Ben Apker)

Fisher Scientific (Keven Peterson)

Sigma Aldrich (Rick Belcher)