Posted on May 21, 2019 in News
On a recent Friday evening inside the reclaimed planetarium of The City College of New York’s Marshak Science Building, a group of students, faculty, local artists and other guests sat transfixed by a constantly morphing liquid light show projected onto the domed ceiling. In the corner of the room, artist Steve Pavlovsky mixed a bit […] Read More…
Posted on February 26, 2019 in Uncategorized
The discovery could help in the development of novel, more effective antibiotics NEW YORK, February 25, 2019 – From the complex to the simple, all life forms have mechanisms for translating environmental cues into cellular behavior that helps them survive. This universal activity may hold the key to understanding how common bacteria transform into virulent, […] Read More…
Posted on October 11, 2018 in News
Dr. Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle appeared in a recent article from Nature which explores biologists’ growing understanding of how liquid phase separation might impact the development of cancers and other diseases in cells. […] Read More…
Posted on September 4, 2018 in News
Many proteins, the workhorses of the cell, can be artificially controlled for biotech and therapeutic applications using small chemical compounds. With a three-year, $633,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York are exploring ways to speed up […] Read More…
Posted on March 20, 2018 in News
See the original post here Living well into advanced age is a true blessing — but one that is ever threatened by the looming risks of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other age-related dementia. Despite billions of dollars spent on finding a cure, Alzheimer’s continues unabated, claiming more and more lives in our aging population. But […] Read More…
Posted on July 13, 2017 in News
Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle has joined the faculty of the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) of the Graduate Center, CUNY as the fourth and final tenure-track faculty member with the ASRC’s Structural Biology Initiative. Elbaum-Garfinkle—who will hold the title of assistant professor—joins initiative director Kevin H. Gardner and fellow assistant professors Amedee des Georges and Daniel Keedy […] Read More…
Posted on June 6, 2017 in News
The Structural Biology Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center of the Graduate Center at The City University of New York (ASRC) welcomes Dr. Daniel Keedy as an assistant professor, the third faculty member to join the initiative along with Initiative Director and Professor Kevin H. Gardner and Assistant Professor Amedee des Georges. Keedy—who will […] Read More…
Posted on March 16, 2017 in News
Igor Dikiy, a postdoctoral researcher with the CUNY ASRC’s Structural Biology Initiative (SBI), was recently awarded a Ruth A. Kirchstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health, a program that funds research and training for predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers throughout the US. Dikiy studies how bacterial proteins detect environmental changes and pass […] Read More…
Posted on September 22, 2016 in News
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center’s Amedee des Georges is co-first author on a paper shedding light on the structure and function of an intracellular receptor which controls the contraction of skeletal muscle, the findings of which are published today in Cell. Des Georges’s role in the research began while a Howard Hughes postdoctoral associate at […] Read More…
Posted on September 13, 2016 in News
New insights into the potential for new classes of HIF inhibitors to restore control of the hypoxia response—representing the potential foundation of a new cancer-fighting strategy—are the focus of recently published articles in Nature and Structure featuring work by Kevin Gardner of the City University of New York’s Advanced Science Research Center (CUNY ASRC). Some […] Read More…