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Welcome to mikeblaber.org This site is produced and maintained by Dr. Michael Blaber. Feel free This web site is intended to provide access to information and resouces as*ociated with, or produced by, Dr. Michael Blaber, and was The old site was supported by the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University, but was retired after Dr. Blaber moved to Dr. Blaber decided to register the domain name mikeblaber.org and transfer the material to this site. This site is not affiliated with Florida State University, and all opinions are those of the author, Dr. Michael Blaber. report include Drs. Nobuo Okazaki, Michael Blaber and Ryota Kuroki. This report describes the structure of an enzyme responsible for the first step in the biosynthesis of the sugar trehalose from the storage polysaccharide amylose. The authors are at the Quantum Beam Science Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, where Dr. Blaber was an invited research fellow from 2009-2014. Congratulations Dr. Tamada! MS. CONNIE TENORIO WINS HURT LEADERSHIP AWARD Ms. Connie Tenorio (grad student in the Blaber lab) received the 2018 Hurt Leadership award in Biomedical Science. This award recognizes a student that makes exceptional contributions as an emerging leader. Connie has mentored a total of 15 students including High School students, Undergraduate students and Medical students; she was the chair of the Biomedical Sciences retreat for 2018; she has been the Vice President of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student As*ociation for 2 years and will be as*uming the role of President for the upcoming year; in addition, she has served as the Chair of the addition to these leadership duties, Connie has maintained excellent research progress. Congratulations Connie! DR. MICHAEL BLABER APPOINTED AS*OCIATE CHAIR FOR RESEARCH Dr. Michael Blaber was appointed As*ociated Chair for Research of the Biomedical Sciences department for 2018-2019. This position is part of the department's Executive Committee and is tasked with enhancing and