The HARC Center

Charles Craik was a plenary lecturer at Amgen Scholar's Program Symposium
July 20th, 2008. Dr. Craik was a plenary lecturer at the National Amgen Scholar's Program Symposium, held at UCLA.

Congratulations to Bob Stroud, on being awarded the Hans Neurath Award
July 19, 2008. Dr. Stroud will receive the Hans Neurath Award of the Protein Society. Read more.

Yifan Cheng will be an Instructor at the First KH Kuo Summer School of Electron Microscopy and Crystallography-Beijing Workshop of cryo-Electron Microscopy in Structural Biology
July 14-16 , 2008. Beijing, China.

Bob Stroud, Matija Peterlin and Alan Frankel to speak at AIDS Meeting
June 26-27, 2008. Drs. Stroud, Peterlin and Frankel will present at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Groups Studying the Structures of AIDS-Related Systems and Their Application to Targeted Drug Design.

Yifan Cheng will speak at the CNIO Cancer Conference: Structure and Mechanism of Essential Complexes for Cell Survival
June 23-25, 2008. Madrid, Spain.

Charles Craik speaks at Bioinorganic Chemistry Gordon Conference
June 15, 2008. Dr. Craik spoke about his work on proteases and antibodies at the conference, held in Andover, NH

HARC Center Collaborator Daphne Koller was featured in a NY Times article
May 3, 2008 Read the article

John Gross to speak at Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions
April 11, 2008 Dr. Gross will give a seminar at a workshop hosted by the PCHPI.

Physics Today features article on HARC and Sister HIV Centers
February, 2008 Download PDF

Gerard Cagney Joins the HARC Center-November 2007
Dr. Cagney joined the HARC Center in November of 2007 as a Visiting Scientist in Nevan Krogan’s lab at UCSF. Dr. Cagney received his PhD from Queens University Belfast in 1994 and since then has worked in industry and academia with a focus on studying protein-protein interactions using arrays, proteomics and mass spectrometry. He was previously the project manager at the Genome Canada Yeast Protein Interaction Project at the University of Toronto and also worked as Director of Proteomics at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He presently holds an appointment as Assistant Professor at University College Dublin.

Charles Craik seminar for MORE Programs Scholars-October 2007
Dr. Craik spoke to MORE Programs Scholars at Cal State Los Angeles in October. The MORE Programs Scholars include undergraduates who participate in several NIH-funded student development initiatives: Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC), Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE). Also in attendance were students in the NIH Bridges to the Doctorate Program, NIH RISE MS-to-PhD program, the NSF Lewis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate Program and NIH Post-baccalaureate Research and Education Program (PREP).

B. Matija Peterlin speaks at 14th West Coast Retrovirus Meeting
Sept. 13, 2007. Dr. B. Matija Peterlin will give an invited talk at the 14th West Coast Retrovirus Meeting to be held October 11-13 in Palm Springs, California

NIH awards a major center grant to the HARC Center
August 27, 2007 - Press Release

Robert Stroud lecture in Crete, Greece
July 2007. Dr. Stroud spoke in the Physical Interrogation of Proteinaceous Assemblies Session at the meeting on Protein Assembly in Materials, Biology and Medicine: Direct Impact on Biological Nanosciences.