Highlights
2008
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LSU Biological Science Professor is Resisting Resistance.
Dr. Waref Azmeh, an infectious disease specialist in Baton Rouge, discusses the origin and the dangers of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, and Dr. Grover Waldrop, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at LSU, describes how he and his lab are designing ways to overcome this desperate situation. Dr. Waldrop discusses the importance of the CAMD X-ray-crystallography research station in his research.
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Disabling a Killer Virus
Dr. Andrew Russo, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, used the protein crystallography beamline at CAMD to study the structure of a protein called nsp2 protease in the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus. He will use this knowledge to develop an inhibitor that will prevent the virus from replicating and killing countless humans and farm animals.
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Sifting Slush
Hurricane Katrina (2005) left an abundance of tragic waste in its wake: broken lives and mangled city artifacts that only a city as old as New Orleans can generate. In an attempt to investigate what else it left behind in New Orleans, CAMD-LSU researchers, Amitava Roy and John Pardue, along with their respective research teams, use X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy to study the speciation of heavy metals and their sources in the flood sediments.
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Reducing Dimensions: Wiry Metals and Skinny Oxides
One-dimensional nanomaterials are fertile building blocks for manufacturing devices in nanoelectronics and photonics. CAMD-LSU researchers, Orhan Kizilkaya, Richard Kurtz, Yaroslav Losovyj, Phil Sprunger, and Wei Chang Zhao, in two separate studies, explore exciting possibilities with silver nanowires and ultra-thin oxides, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy.
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Detecting Cancer
LSU’s CAMD and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in a collaborative effort led by Challa Kumar and Carola Leuschner, are developing unique nanoparticles designed to detect cancer cells efficiently. Read more to find out about nanoscience at CAMD.
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