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Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building Opens
Sept. 22, 2009
Contact: Bill Gibbs, 979-777-0171, billgibbs@tamu.edu
COLLEGE STATION—Texas A&M University’s largest-ever construction project, the $100 million Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB) will officially open on Sept. 24. Two faculty members from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics will be among those moving into the building.
Ping Wei Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics, and James Sacchettini, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and biophysics, along with their research teams, will join 17 other faculty members from in a cross department/cross college cooperative interdisciplinary effort bringing together experts from a wide range of academic disciplines.
According to the ILSB website, http://ilsb.tamu.edu, “The research teams will include biologists, chemists, psychologists, computer scientists, statisticians and others, and will focus on several key interdisciplinary efforts: behavioral and structural neuroscience, structural biology and bioinformatics to begin with, and other interdisciplinary initiatives to follow.”
Li and Sacchettini will be in the structural biology group that will research protein structures, bioanalytical chemistry, chemical-biology (natural products/synthesis) and drug discovery.
The three-story, 220,000-square foot building is located on Old Main Drive on the Texas A&M campus in College Station, between the Bell Tower and Houston Street.
For more information:
Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building website
About the college:
With an enrollment of almost 6,700 students in 14 academic departments, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees and has a faculty of nearly 400 members, including two Nobel laureates. Research programs include food sustainability and safety, human and animal health, genetics, renewable natural resources and bioenergy. Mark Hussey is Vice Chancellor and Dean.
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