News

5/12 - Assistant Professor Nathan Alder received a collaborative UCHC and Storrs/Regional Campus Incentive Grant (UCIG) with Dr. Chris Heinen's lab at UCHC for $100K / 2 years: “Monitoring effects of cancer-associated mutations on conformation dynamics of DNA mismatch repair proteins"
You may be wondering...what is Biophysics? For an answer see the MCB graduate student production put on YouTube by Andy Wowor HERE
Andrew Pask's work on limited genetic diversity of the Tasmanian tiger has been highlighted in UConn Today and beyond. [more] [original article]
Goldwater Scholars in MCB! - Anna Green in the Gogarten lab was named a Goldwater Scholar, and Ragini Phansalkar (a sophomore!) in the Mellone lab received honorable mention for these highly competitive awards. Congratulations to both! [more]
3/12 - Ragini Phansalkar, an undergraduate student working in the Mellone lab was selected for the Pasteur Institute Summer Internship Program in Paris. Congratulations Ragini! [more]
Prisma Lopez, an undergraduate working in the Cole lab has been accepted to the prestigeous Amgen Scholars Summer Research Program at Columbia University. Congratulations Prisma! [more]
Dr. Daniel Gage has received two (count them 2!) new grants from the USDA AFRI-SEED program: "Microfluidic studies of signaling between rhizosphere bacteria and their predators" (PI with Shor from Chemical Engineering) AND "Pore Scale Effects of Soil Structure and Microbial Interactions on Soil Water Retention" (CoPI with Shor). Congratulations! [more]
12/16 - Congratulations to Ying Huang (Microbiology), Jason Gibson (Genetics & Genomics) Ruma Chowdury (Biochemistry) and Michael N. Wosczyna (Cell & Developmental) for successfully defending their PhD dissertations this semester
10/12/11 - Distinguished Professor Philip Marcus was featured in this week's CLAS in the News [more]
10/3/11 - Congratulations to Professor Carol Teschke on renewal funding for her NIH grant "Understanding the protein:protein interactions required for virus assembly."[more]
9/30/11 - Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Philip Marcus who was recognized as one of the seven 60 year members of the American Society for Microbiology. The Society has more than 38,000 members. [more]
9/23/11 - Peter Burkhard has received an NIH-NIDA Avant Garde Award for Translational Research for his proposal entitled: "A peptide nanoparticle nicotine vaccine". Congratulations! [more]
8/29/11 - Rachel O'Neill and Andrew Pask are featured in an article in UConn Today that describes their participation in sequencing the genome of the Tamar Wallaby [more]
8/24/11 - Congratulations to Dr. Thane Papke on a new grant from NASA entitled "Lateral Gene Transfer Mechanisms in Archaea"
7/5/11 - Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Philip Marcus on receiving the first annual Distinguished Service Award from the ISICR (International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research) to be given at a ceremony in Florence, Italy in October.
6/14/11 - New NSF Grant to Joerg Graf, Dan Gage and Ken Noll in MCB along with Ranjan Srivastava, Leslie Shor and William Mustain in Engineering and Jared Leadbetter at Cal Tech, from the NSF Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation for "Creation and Manipulation Of An Artificial Termite Gut Through Control Of The Microenvironment." [more]
6/11 - Graduate student Tyler Schleicher in the Nyholm lab received a Boehringer Ingelheim Travel Grant to participate in the Wellcome Trust Advanced Course in Proteomics Bioinformatics at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK in July.
5/8/11 - Undergraduate Award Winners Announced: Margaret and Irving Ertman Award to Mary Ledoux (MCB, Mellone); Outstanding Senior in MCB to Stephanie Davis (MCB, Lynes); Claire Berg Award to Kathleen Stewart (MCB, R. O'Neill); Applied Genetics to Ryan Molony (MCB, Lynes); outstanding senior in PNB to Chana Rich (PNB & MCB, Lynes); Honors Award in LIfe Sciences to Ariel Gonzalez (EEB & MCB, Nelson). Congratulations to all!
5/2/11 - Mary Ojukwu, an undergraduate in Joerg Graf's lab received an American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship (ASM-URF) to conduct research this summer at UConn and attend the 2012 ASM meeting.[more]
4/19/11 - Congratulations to Meaghan Roy-O'Reilly (University Scholar in the Lynes lab) who has been selected by UCONN to represent the University at the July "Universitas 21" undergraduate research conference in Shanghai, China.[more]
4/12/11 - Congratulations to Anna Green, who achieved an honorable mention in the national Goldwater competition for her studies on bioinformatics with Peter Gogarten, Distinguished Professor in MCB.[more]
4/5/11 - Congratulations to Sarah Sheftic in the Alexandrescu lab, who has won a graduate fellowship from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program .[more]
3/31/11 - Congratulations to the sixteen MCB junior and senior undergraduate majors who have been initiated into Phi Beta Kappa; they are Kamisha Byas, Victoria Costello, Tina Do, Anna Green, John Haskoor, Joshua Johnson, Erik Kopping, Mary Ledoux, Andrew Mehta, Alex Minge, Nicholas Minutolo, Catherine Ockerbloom, Jillian Prescod, Alexandra Remus, Renee Silvis and David Owen.
3/17/11 - Meaghan Roy-O'Reilly (one of MCB's newly announced University Scholars, and a member of the Lynes research group) is profiled at UCONN TODAY.
02/11 - Congratulations to Distinguished Professor J. Peter Gogarten on his election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The AAM is the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the world's oldest and largest life science organization. [more]
2/10/11 - MCB does it again! Thirteen of 29 University Scholars list MCB, Structural Biology/Biophysics or Biology as their major accounting for 45% of all University Scholars at the University. Congratulations to both students and advisors. [more]
01-11 - Joerg Graf's leech menagerie is featured in this week's issue of UConn Today.
01/11 - A classic AUC paper by David Yphantis (Professor Emeritus in MCB) has been ranked #3 on the most cited papers over 50 years in BIOCHEMISTRY: D. Yphantis (1964) Equilibrium ultracentrifugation of dilute solutions. Biochemistry 3, 297-317.
12/10 - NEW GRANT from the Muscular Dystrophy Association to David Goldhamer to study the fate of satellite cells that invade muscle tissues in advanced stages of muscular dystrophy.
11/30 - NEW GRANT from NIH General Medical Sciences to Joerg Graf entitled "Functional Analysis of a Digestive-Tract Microbiome During Dietary Changes."
10/10 - NEW GRANT from NSF Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences to Craig Nelson "Gene Duplication in Ribosomal Protein Evolution" [more]
10/10 - New Grant from NIH/NINDS to Adam Zweifach entitled "A high throughput screen of lytic granule exocytosis." [more]
9/21/10 - Barbara Mellone is featured in The Advance
9/3/10 - Craig Nelson and students are featured in an article in Genomeweb "UConn team developing database to track lineage of stem cells via gene expression markers" [article]
9/1/10 - New USDA award to Tom Chen - "Identifying Biochemical Pathways Using Genetically Modified Trout".
8/26/10 - WELCOME NEW MCB GRADUATE STUDENTS [pic]
8/12/10 - New NSF award to Barbara Mellone for studying the "Mechanisms of Centromere Assembly in Drosophila." [more]
08/10 - Joseph Pomianowski, a 2009 graduate with a double major in MCB and Math, has been awarded a 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellowship through UConn. He will study the life of Stefan Banach in Poland. Joseph has just completed an MA in the History of Science at Harvard.
7/10 - New Grant from NSF/MCB to Nathan Alder entitled "Fluorescence-Based Investigation of the Structure and Functional Dynamics of the Mitochondrial Protein Import Machinery." [More]
07/10 - Two of three University Scholars representing UConn at Universitas 21 in Melbourne, Australia come from MCB laboratories. Mike Lynes went along as an advisor. Stephanie Davis (Lynes lab) presented "Bacterial Metallothionein, SmtA, as a virulence factor" and Charles Mackin (Papke lab) presented "Natural Competence in the Archaean Haloferax volcanii". [more]
05/26/10 - Graduate Student Summer Fellowships Announced - GRADUATE: Caroline Jakuba Claire M. Berg Graduate Fellowship in Genetics; Tobias Neef; Richard C. Crain, Jr. Memorial Fellowship; Gay Padilla & Matthew Ranaghan, Jean Lucas-Lenard Special Summer Fellowship in Biochemistry; Alex Bertalovitz & Borko Tanasijevic, Pfizer Summer Fellowship in Molecular and Cell Biology; James Brooks, Antonio H. & Marjorie J. Romano Graduate Education Fellowship UNDERGRADUATE: Willythssa Pierre-Louis, Todd M. Schuster Award in Molecular and Cell Biology. [More]
5/17-5/19 - The 6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOINFORMATICS RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS is being held in BSP with Peter Gogarten as coorganizer and several MCB faculty and students presenting[MORE]
5/4/10 - Kousanee Chheda, an E.O. Smith HS student working with Larry Hightower on the effect of hyperbaric oxygen on angiogenesis and stress responses took third place at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium in DC. Congratulations!
Cell Stress and Chaperones (Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Professor Larry Hightower), has opened a new journal website, that includes a good "how to..." for students writing manuscripts. Cell Stress and Chaperones publishes manuscripts of interest to all parents of teenagers.
4/10 - Congratulations to Rachel O'Neill and Tom Abbott who received teaching the CLAS Excellence in Teaching, and the ITL Teaching Scholar awards, respectively at an awards ceremony on Apr 15.
4/10 - Congratulations to Christine Schwall in the Alder lab, who has won a graduate fellowship from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.[more]
3/10 - Congratulations to J. Peter Gogarten, named as a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor! He joins Debra Kendall and Philip Marcus as MCB's Distinguished Professors.
3/10 - Squid in the news! Spencer Nyholm's squid work is featured as the lead story on the cover of Discovery News and UConn Today.
2/10 - New Graduate Research Fellowship - DOJ "Exploring the Genetic Diversity of Bacterial Populations in Soil for Forensic Applications" to LInda Strausbaugh and Bo Pietraszkiewicz. [more]
02/10 - The deadline for the Lt. Paul L. Drotch Memorial Scholarship for undergraduates has been announced [more info and application]
02/10 - New Grant from NSF/BIO awarded to Spencer Nyholm for "Characterizing the Role of Host Blood Cells in a Beneficial Symbiosis". [more]
01/10 - A New Grant from the American Diabetes Association has been awarded to Andrei Alexandrescu entitled "Structural and Biophysical Mechanisms of Amylin Toxicity."
01/10 - A CESE fellowship was awarded to Reed Goodwin for spring semester for the proposal "A Microfluidic Infection Thread Assay to Study Initiation of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation". The work will be done in the labs of Dan Gage in MCB and and Leslie Shor in Chemical Engineering.
01/10 - A new NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship was awarded to Rebecca Stadel of the Kendall Lab for a proposal entitled "Cannabinoid receptor One-B arrestin interactions".
01/10 - Seven MCB/SBB students have been selected as University Honor Scholars for 2010 out of a total of 23 chosen. They include Stephanie Davis, Anna Goodheart, Maulik Jani, Charles Mackin, Ryan Molony, Chana Rich and Kathleen Stewart. Congratulations to all!
11/09 - New Grant NSF-MRI ARRA Michael O'Neill and collaborators have been awarded an MRI grant to support the purchase of an Applied Biosystems SOLiD3 massively parallel nucleic acid sequencer.
10/09 - David Goldhamer has been appointed the Director of the Center for Regenerative Biology (CRB).
10/25/09 - Gregory Marusov (Lynes lab) presented the invited student lecture ("Multiplexed microarray assessments of cellular and molecular toxicity biomarkers") at the Northeast Society of Toxicology meeting. Also, Douglas Donaldson (Lynes lab) won honorable mention for his poster entitled "Immunomodulation Mediated by the Stress Response Protein Metallothionein".
10/23/09 - Andrew Collins in the Nyholm lab has won the best student poster award at the American Society for Microbiology 44th Annual Regional I Meeting.
9/30/09 - Linda Strausbaugh has hit the news by showing that a skull fragment purported to belong to Hitler is actually from a female [more]
9/09 - Jennifer VanOudenhove, MCB ’09 is featured on the CLAS website for receiving the Todd Schuster Undergraduate Research Award. [more]
9/09 - New Grant NIH-NIAID - "Malaria Vaccine Based on Self-Assembling Polypeptide Nanoparticles (SAPN)" to Peter Burkhard
9/09 - Three new grants awarded via ARRA: Jim Cole "Mechanism for activation of the antiviral kinase PKR"; Michael O'Neill "Genomic conflict and placentation in Poeciliid fishes", and Thane Papke "Towards comprehending prokaryotic species"
9/09 - Catalina Arango, a post-doc in the Gage lab will be accepting an Assistant Professor position in the Biology Department at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
6-09 - New Grant - Thane Papke received a new NSF Grant entitled "Toward Comprehending Prokaryotic Species Using Halorubrum sp. as a Model" from the Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Program.
6-09 - New Grant - Nathan Alder received a new National Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association entitled ""Fluorescence-Based Study of the Mitochondrial ADP/ATP Carrier: a Key Cellular Component in Cardiac Disease"
6/11-6/13 - “Next Generation Genome Analysis in Non-Model Organisms” hosted at UConn. Register here.
5/09 - Graduate Fellowships Announced - Andrew Collins, A. H. and M. J. Romano Fellowship; Derek Bickhart, John Ngunjiri, Michael Wosczyna, Pfizer Summer Fellowship; Scott Corley and Margaret Suhanovsky, J. Lucas-Lenard Fellowship; Rory Coleman, Scott Corley, Igor Gurevich, Caroline Jakuba, E. A. Khairallah Fund; Yang-Hui Yeh, Richard Crain Memmorial; Gino Intrieri, Arthur Chovnick Fellowship; Laura Hall, Claire Berg Fellowship.
Congratulations to Andrew Mehta who was awarded an undergraduate summer fellowship by the Parkinson's Disease Foundation for work on "Effects of Membrane Mimetics on the Structure of the Parkinson's Disease Protein alpha-Synuclein" with the Alexandrescu lab.
5/9/09 - PhD Graduates 08/09 - Dominic Ambrosi (Rasmussen), Ben Carone (M. O'Neill), Dawn Carone (R. O'Neill), Tom Edrington (Yeagle), Greg Fournier (Gogarten), Preston Garcia (Gage), Juliana Mastronunzio (Benson), Adam Silver (Graf), Colleen Spurling (Giardina), Jessica Starkey (Goldhamer), Josh Suhl (Strausbaugh). Congratulations to all!
5/5/09 - Undergraduate awards announced Margaret F. Ertman Award, Krishna Patel (Lynes lab); Clair Berg Award, Kaitlin Vaughan (Graf Lab); Outstanding Senior in MCB Award, Kathryn Grive (Knecht lab); Excellence in Applied Genetics and Technology Award, Tamara Roman (Strausbaugh lab). Congratulations one and all!
4/15/09 - Professor Ken Noll has been selected to be an ASM Lecturer for the American Society for Microbiology. [more]
4/17/09 - Congratulations to Professor Linda Strausbaugh who has received the Alumni Association Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for 09/10.
4/7/09 - Two MCB Students are among 278 students nationwide who have received Goldwater Scholarship recognition. Alex Meeske from Adam Zweifach's lab received an award and Rory Coleman from David Goldhamer's lab received honorable mention. [more]
Nature Reviews in Microbiology 7, p258-259 discusses Lapierre and Gogarten's analysis of the bacterial pan-genome (the original article was published in TIGs)
3/26/09 - A PNAS article by Olga Zhaxybayeva, Kristen S. Swithers, Pascal Lapierre, Gregory P. Fournier, Derek M. Bickhart, Robert T. DeBoy, Karen E. Nelson, Camilla L. Nesbø, W. Ford Doolittle, J. Peter Gogarten, and Kenneth M. Noll is featured on the CLAS website and in the UConn Advance. [more]
3/19/09 J. Peter Gogarten has been awarded a Fulbright program fellowship for lecture and research on Horizontal Gene Transfer at Tel Aviv University in the Fall of 2009.
3/19/09 J. Peter Gogarten has been elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science & Engineering.
3/9/09 - Two PSM students, Kali Bogaard (M.S. Applied Genomics, 2008) and Heather Nelson (M.S. Applied Genomics, 2004) have been featured in the Winter 2009 issue of Association for Women in Science magazine. [more]
2.9.09 Vicki Robinson has been awarded an NSF CAREER AWARD entitled "The Influence of ppGpp on the Cellular Actions of BipA". [more]
2/3 - Gregory Marusov (Lynes Laboratory) has won the first place student travel award for his poster entitled "Metallothionein expression affects the functional immune response of murine macrophages" from the Northeast Chapter of the Society of Toxicology.
1/16/09 - Emeritus Professor Judy Kelly has been elected Vice-president of the American Crystallographic Association [more]
1/12 - David Goldhamer has been appointed Associate Director of the University's Stem Cell Institute.
12/08 - Congratulations to Debra Kendall who has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [more].
12/10/08 - New Grant, U.S. Israel Binational Science Foundation, to Thane Papke entitled "Mechanisms of gene exchange in halophilic Archaea.
12/3/08 - New Grant, NIH/NCI, to Charlie Giardina entitled "Targeting p53 for colon cancer treatment and prevention."
11/28 Andrei Alexandrescu has been inducted into society with the prestigious LFHCfS of follicular abundance, an exclusively non-alopecia areata fraternity of scientists [More].
11/17 - Spencer Nyholm has had his article on the squid-Vibrio symbiosis in Environmental Microbiology featured in the Dec. issue of Nature Reviews
11/08 - New Grant from Pfizer - David Benson and Michael Lynes received a new grant entitled "New technologies for extracting, amplifying and detecting low numbers of bacteria"
11/08 - Three MCB faculty members received UCHC/Storrs grants from the UCIG competition: Charlie Giardina, Rachel O'Neill and Craig Nelson. [more]
10/08 - Gregory Marusov, Ph.D. student in Cell Biology, was awarded third place for his poster "Metallothionein expression affects the functional immune response of murine macrophages" at the Northeast Society of Toxicology meeting.
Former MCB genetics graduate student Dr. Craig O'Conner is quoted in the Oct. 27Inside Higher Ed Newsarticle on minority PhDs. [more]
MCB undergrad Jennifer VanOudenhove (Cole lab) has been selected as a finalist in a research competition in Biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical Center; she travels to UT to present her poster on small angle scattering analysis of PKR conformation.
9/08 - New DPH-CT Innovations grant Dr. Charles Giardina "Targeting lineage committed stem cells to damaged intestinal mucosa"
9/19/08 New NSF-AToL grant awarded to J. Peter Gogarten (CoPIs: Ken Noll. Thane Papke, Jinling Huang and Ying Xu) to study Horizontal gene transfer and among phyla relationships
An article by Tom Edrington, Mike Bennett and Arlene Albert (see below) was selected as a featured article by Faculty of 1000 - Biology. [more info]
8/08 - New NASA Grant awarded to Dr. Ken Noll "Genome-based investigation into the nature of the common ancestor of the Thermotogales" [more information]
7/08 New NSF-BIO grant awarded - Rachel O'Neill- “The Impact of Retroelement Expression on Centromeres in Marsupials.”[more info]
08/08 - Joerg Graf in the news - Professor Graf was featured in the New Haven register article on students trained in his lab via the Mentor Connection. [more info].
6/08 New DOE-BER grant - Kenneth Noll & RM Kelly at NCSU & P Blum at U. Neb. Lincoln- "Biohydrogenogenesis in the Thermotogales"
6/08 New NSF-MRI grant awarded - Linda Strausbaugh & Rachel O'Neill- “MRI: Acquisition of a Genome Sequencer System for Research and Education.”
6/08 - Graduate Student FellowshipsKristen Swithers and Charito Romeo have received summer fellowships from the Fund for Innovative Science Education to serve as graduate student mentors for undergraduate students.
06/08 - Hou in the news - Jie Hou from Carol Teschke's lab was featured in a UConn Advance describing his path from China to UConn to the Air Force. Read about it HERE.
5/08 - Graduate Student Awards Announced - Claire M. Berg Graduate Fellowship in Genetics - Elizabeth Mlynarski; Dr. Arthur Chovnick Graduate Fellowship in Genetics - Adam Silver; Richard C. Crain, Jr. Memorial Fellowship - Robyn Croke; Pfizer Summer Fellowship in Molecular and Cell Biology - Juliana Mastronunzio and Adam Silver; Jean Lucas-Lenard Special Summer Fellowship in Biochemistry - Renee Gilberti
5/08 - Undergraduate fellowship awarded - Todd M. Schuster Award in Molecular and Cell Biology was awarded to Jennifer VanOudenhove
5/08 Hou in the news - Jie Hou from Carol Teschke's lab was featured in a Hartford Courant article describing his unusual path to UConn. Read about it HERE.
4/08 - Interview on WILI - Ken Noll held forth concerning Alternate Sources of Energy to the local radio audience.
4/08 - Teaching Award - Juliet Lee honored for receiving the Teachers for a New Era Fellowship.
4/08 33 MCB students join Phi Beta Kappa - Epsilon Heather Dancer, Cailin Deal, Vinita Dora, Heather Dowling, Linda Drozdowicz, Kirsten Frostad, Rickinder Grewal, Daniel Kim, Pratistha Koirala, Jacquelin Kubinski, Rebecca LaFleur, Allison Lemkin, James Mangan, Alexander Meeske, Kelly Miller, Catherine O'Neill, Aniello Picone, Gregory Pivarnik, Chad Sagnella, Christopher Soares, Rinku Sureja, Long Hoang Tu, Caitlin Alex, Julia Auer, John Eicher, Seth Hosmer, Amy Jancewicz, Rinu Joseph, Aaron Lee, Michael Levinson, Paula Lucuara, Kellyn Misset, Holly Vinal
4/08 New NASA grant - Kenneth Noll & Peter Gogarten- "Genome-based investigations into the nature of he common ancestor of the Thermotogales"
4/08 New DOE grant - Wolf Dieter Reiter "Genetic Analysis of Nucleotide Sugar Interconversions in Arabidopsis" - 3 yrs.
4/08 - Goldwater Scholar Honorable Mention - Sonali Shah, a junior with a double major in MCB and Nutrition was named Honorable Mention in the Barry Goldwater scholarship competition.
4/08 - Student fellowship award - Dawn Carone, a Ph.D. student in Rachel O'Neill's lab, was awarded an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute in Australia fellowship for the summer of 2008 - the only one in molecular biology this year.
3/08 New NIH-GM grant Redesign of structural regions of alkaline phosphatase. D. A. Kendall
3/08 - 2008 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards - Six awards were made to MCB students Long Tu (Teschke), Kaitlin Vaughan (Graf), Harris Sultan (Zweifach), Steven Treaster (Tian), Hareen Makanji (Robinson), and Pratistha Koirala (Goldhamer)!. Congratulations to the students and their advisors for receiving these highly competitive awards. [MORE INFORMATION].
9/07 New NIH/NIDA grant Determinants of the Cannabinoid Receptor Life Cycle. D. A. Kendall
2/08 - Legacy Leaders - Four out of 12 Legacy Leaders are MCB and SB&B majors! These students are selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants across campus Congratulations to Linda Drozdowicz, Pratistha Koirala, Heeren Makanji and Robert Slattery.
3/08 - University Scholars - Three MCB majors out of 14 juniors have been named University Scholars: Heeren Makanji ‐( Robins on, Kendall, Knecht); Anu Nellissery - (Birge, Albert, Papadimitrakopoulos); Robert Slattery - (Langlois, Gogarten, Knoblauch).[info]
2/08 New Grant - NIH/NIND - "Locus specific imprinting on the mammalian X-chromosome" - Michael O'Neill
2/08 New Grant - OxyHeal Health Group "OxyHeal/UConn Project on Stress Conditioning Cultured Cells using Hyperbaric Oxygen" L. E. Hightower & C. A. Giardina.
Rachel O'Neill's freshman honors course "Genetics Legacies: A Connecticut Slave's Story" was featured in the Dec. 10 issue of the Hartford Courant.
Greg Fournier (Gogarten Lab) won the 2008 Sherwood Chang Award for a poster on "Evolutionary Chronology of Ribosomal Subunits Contains Evidence of Genetic Code Evolution" that he presented at the 2008 Origin of Life Gordon Research Conference.
1/15/08 - The J. Virology article Ngunjiri, J. M., M. J. Sekellick and P. I. Marcus. 2008. Clonogenic Assay of Type A Influenza Viruses Reveals Noninfectious Cell-Killing (Apoptosis-Inducing) Particles has been selected for inclusion in "Spotlight" that highlights articles of high interest.
5/07 New Grant NASA Exploration of Sequence Space and the Evolution of the Genetic Code. J. P. Gogarten
9/07 New Grant NSF-MCB Mechano-Sensing and the Integration of Cytoskeletal Function in Moving Cells Juliet Lee
Schwenk Graduate Fellowships. Adam Silver from the Graf lab, and Colleen Spurling from the Giardina lab, have been named Schwenk graduate student mentors. The fellowships are funded by CLAS and the Schwenk Fund for Innovative Science Education.
J. Peter Gogarten was selected as one of BioMed Central's Hot 100 authors.
11/07 New Grant NSF-DUE Integration and Dissemination of Inquiry Based Video Microscopy and Image Processing Labs into the Undergraduate Curriculum. D. Knecht & L. McCollam-Guilani
10/07New Grant - NSF MRI: "Acquisition of a Confocal Live Cell Imaging System" PI- Knecht, co-PI Zweifach, Lee, Grant, Gaxiola