2008 Events
October - International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics
Kathy Meneely presents a poster at the
International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics
in San Diego, CA.
September
Natasha DeVore successfully defends her Master's thesis research titled
"The Human Cytochrome P450 2A Family: Functional Comparisons and Identification of Amino Acids Essential for Substrate Recognition".
July
Scott lab Summer 2008 Canoe Trip (left to right): Dr. Scott and Hazel Scott; Matt and Natasha DeVore and Romulus;
Kathy, Lexi, and Anthony Meneely; Patrick and Michelle Porubsky; Linda Blake; Summer Amundsen.
Kathy Meneely presents a poster at the Microsomes and Drug Oxidations Meeting in Saratoga Springs, NY.
May - Southwest P450
Patrick Porubsky presents the first structures of human cytochrome P450 2E1 in a talk at the
7th Southwest P450 Meeting
in Navasota, TX.
April - MIKI Meeting
Melanie Blevins both successfully defends her Master's thesis and presents a talk describing her work at the
MIKI meeting
at the University of Iowa.
Natasha DeVore's poster
"Identification of active site residues essential for the metabolism of acetaminophen in human 2A cytochromes P450"
was also selected for a talk at Experimental Biology 2008. This poster also won a poster award two weeks later at the
46th Annual Medicinal Chemistry Meeting-in-Miniature (MIKI)
.