Posted on Sep 12, 2003

Quynh Chu-LaGraff, research associate professor of biology, made a
presentation at the ninth International Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
conference in Chicago, “Expression
of the Drosophila Palmitoyl Protein Thioesterase 1 protein during development.”
She also received an NIH-AREA grant for three years totaling $135,549 for a
project, “Palmitoyl Protein Thioesterases in Neural Development.” She
co-authored a paper, “Characterization of Drosophila palmitoyl-protein
thioesterase 1,” in the journal Gene published
on July 13, 2003. Other
authors are R. Glaser, A. Hickey, and H. Chotkowski from the Wadsworth
Center of the state Department of
Health.