Dr. William Duax, Crystallographer, Sage, Rapper, ...

Dr. Duax traveled from Buffalo, NY to visit family and friends in New Orleans and to give a compelling talk on the function, structural characterization and bioinformatic isolation of a 50 member family of short-chain oxidoreductases. At our regular Thursday seminar he introduced many or our students to the utility of the PDB to scientists armed with a background in biochemistry and crystallography. Like before a wise and well traveled grandfather we sat and listened to a convincing characterization of a rare catalytic amino acid "heptad" and a substrate binding motif as it was teased from the dark corners of hypervariable protein sequences in the ever expanding protein sequence database.

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It was my pleasure to get sneak peek at his presentation and learn of his sincere desire to get African American students to Buffalo to work in his lab. I share our conversation with you in My Office Hours.

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