The Meyerhoff Alumni Advisory Board will host online elections from June 1st to June 8th. For detailed information on all officer, cohort representative and committee chair positions, and to vote beginning June 1st, please visit the website by clicking here.
For questions or more information, contact the elections committee at meyerhoff.elections@gmail.com.
Applications for the 2008 Summer Biomedical Training Program (SBTP) at UMBC are currently being accepted. Please contact Justine Johnson at j.johnson@umbc.edu with questions. To apply, please visit:
http://www.umbc.edu/meyerhoff/Undergrad/summer/programs.html
On February 20, 2009, The Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program in collaboration with PROMISE will host Dr. Damian Young, from the Broad Institute. Location and time of event will be announced.
In January 2009, Meyerhoff Graduate Fellow Michael Harrington passed his Ph.D. defense. Michael received his bachelor's degree from Benedict College in Columbia South Carolina. Michael earned his Ph.D. under the mentorship of Dr. Rachel Brewster in the area of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Michael will begin a post doc in April 2009 in Paris, France.
The Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have invited Dr. Gary Dotson, an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, to give a talk on "Characterization and Selective Inhibition of Bacterial Phosphopantothenoylcysteine Synthetase" on Monday, March 23, 2009.
For more information, please e-mail Justine Johnson at j.johnson@umbc.edu.