First Female Biochemistry PhD Supports Department
The first woman to receive a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has bequeathed $1,000 to the Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Noranna Burridge Warner had earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at UT in 1968 before continuing her studies in biochemistry under Professor Kenneth Monty, who founded the department just a few years earlier and was its first chair. After earning her doctorate in 1971, she completed medical school at the UT Health Science Center in Memphis in 1975.
Warner served her internship and residency in Memphis. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California, she joined the faculty of the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Texas. Shortly after her retirement, the Dr. Noranna B. Warner Endowed Chair was established at what is now the McGovern Medical School
Warner died after a brief illness in 2023.
By Amy Beth Miller
Inter-Collegiate Collaboration Develops New Tool for Image Analysis
The Nebenführ lab has developed a fully automated analysis pipeline to extract quantitative measures from fluorescently labeled actin networks for detecting differences in actin organization between cells. By teaming up with the Abel group in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, they were able to demonstrate the robust nature of the extracted parameters, as documented in their recent publication in Molecular Biology of the Cell.
