"May We Have Peace" bronze statue of Native American holding a peace pipe by Allan Houser is located on the North Oval of the OU campus
How to acknowledge COBRE support:
"Research reported in this [publication, release] was supported by Institutional Development Awards (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant numbers P20GM103640 and P30GM145423."
Contact
Ann H. West
Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center
101 Stephenson Parkway
Norman, OK 73019
Phone: 405-325-1529
Email: awest@ou.edu
Oklahoma COBRE in Structural Biology
Welcome to the website of the Oklahoma Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Structural Biology (OCSB). This NIH-funded center supports research groups on the OU-Norman and OUHSC campuses that utilize a structural approach to study important biological macromolecules, in particular, proteins or nucleic acids that are promising targets for rational drug design.
Structural biology lies at the intersection of many different areas of biological sciences and thus has the potential of impacting numerous biomedically important fields. The OCSB was established in 2012 with an NIH COBRE Phase I award (1P20GM103640-01) and a Phase II renewal grant (2P20GM103640-06) was awarded 2017.
In May 2022, the OCSB was awarded the NIH COBRE Phase 3 grant (P30GM145423) which will continue to provide resources for investigators at OU, OUHSC, and other institutions throughout the State of Oklahoma for structure-based biomedical studies as well as guide the OCSB-supported core facilities to a sustainable future.
View the OCSB COBRE's publications on PubMed.gov.
Job Opening
The Laboratory of Biomolecular Structure and Function (LBSF) in Oklahoma City, which is part of the Biomolecular Structure Core of the COBRE, has a job opening for a Staff Scientist position. The candidate should be an experienced crystallographer. More position and application information can be found here.
New Equipment
The Protein Production and Characterization Core (PPCC) facility in Norman has a few new instruments available to users: a microplate reader, a sonicator, and an automated cell counter. More information about each can be found on the PPCC instrument website.
The Biomolecular Structure Core (BSC) facility in Norman has a new Formulatrix Rock Imager available to use for storing and viewing crystallization trials. It is equipped with UV imaging and Multi-Fluorescence Imaging (MFI) technology. More information can be found here.
Events and Dates
COBRE Group Meetings Spring 2023 will take place via ZOOM.
Monday, March 20, 2023, 2 pm: Wei-Qun Ding and Anthony Burgett presenting
Friday, April 7, 2023, 2 pm: Vijay Somalinga and Erika Lutter presenting
COBRE Seminar Series
Friday, April 21, 2023, 4:15 pm: Erica Ollman Saphire (La Jolla Institue for Immunology) - "Antibody defense against emerging infectious disease"
Location: National Weather Center, Rm 1313
EAC Meeting
The June 2023 EAC meeting is scheduled for June 1-2, 2023.
Important COBRE Dates
RPPR reports are due: Friday, March 17, 2023
Central Region IDeA meeting: June 7-9, 2023 in Kansas City, KS
