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BREAKING NEWS

	Sept 2008 Boston Globe Piece. August 18^th 2008, Qi Wang’s manuscript Selected as “ARF Recommend” paper. August 17^th 2008, TriCounty Times Article on Jeff Agar. July 30^th 2008 Alzheimer forum feature. July 29^th 2008 Washington Post, Forbes, US News and World Report, Atlanta Journal Constitution feature Qi Wang’s article “ Scientists ID 'Jekyll-Hyde' Protein in Lou Gehrig's Disease” Other (~20) articles featuring Qi’s manuscript. July 28‘08 Qi Wang’s manuscript, “Protein Aggregation and Protein Instability Govern Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patient Survival” is chosen as an Editor’s Pick in PLoS Biology, and highlighted in a Primer article by Prof. Elizabeth M. Meiering entitled, “The Threat of Instability: Neurodegeneration Predicted by Protein Destabilization and Aggregation Propensity.” Read the press releases, “Predicting patient survival from protein stability and aggregation propensity” and “Protein plays Jekyll and Hyde role in Lou Gehrig's disease”



	SEMINARS Sept 19^th ’08 Jeff Agar to speak at the University of Texas At Austin Health Science Center. June 09^th ’08 Jennifer Cobb speaks at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Symposium. April 21^st ’08 Jeff Agar speaks at Colorado State University. Dec 21^st ’07 Jeff Agar speaks at the ALS/MND symposium in Toronto, Canada.
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Read the press releases, “Predicting patient survival from protein stability and aggregation propensity” and “Protein plays Jekyll and Hyde role in Lou Gehrig's disease”