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Steve A. Kay
Martin F. Yanofsky
Two Plant Biologists at UC San Diego Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Biological Sciences Dean and Biology Professor Receive One of the Highest Honors in Science
Steve A. Kay, dean of the Division of Biological Sciences, and Martin F. Yanofsky, chair of the division’s Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, were among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to the academy today “in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”
They join 67 current members of the UC San Diego faculty who previously had been named to membership in the academy, which was established by Congress in 1863 to serve as an official adviser to the federal government on matters of science and technology.
BSSA will hold its 2008 Life Sciences Career Expo at the UC San Diego Price Center from May 5 through May 8. This signature event of the Biological Sciences Student Association, in collaboration with the Division of Biological Sciences, will bring life science leaders and companies together with the campus’s nearly 7,000 life sciences majors to talk about career options and employment opportunities.
The 3-D structure of the immunoglobulin locus in B cells is shown, with the relative positions of the different portions of the immunoglobulin genes. Grey objects indicate constant regions. Blue objects indicate proximal variable regions. Green objects indicate distal variable regions. Red line indicates the linker connecting the proximal variable and joining regions.
UC San Diego Scientists Show First 3-D Image of Antibody Gene
Using a multidisciplinary mix of geometry, biological research and techniques developed to solve problems on supercomputers, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have shown for the first time how a genome is organized in three-dimensional space.
Researchers led by Cornelis Murre, a professor of biology at UC San Diego, and Steve Cutchin, senior scientist for visualization services at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), used the gene encoding the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus – responsible for generating diverse kinds of antibodies – to demonstrate the structure of the genome.
The observations, the researchers say, permit an insight into the structure of the human genome, which until now has remained elusive.
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