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- MCB Student Cassandra Correa Chosen for 2024 Jackson Laboratory Summer Student ProgramCassandra Correa (Lynes Laboratory) has been chosen for the 2024 Jackson Laboratory Summer Student Program (https://www.jax.org/education-and-learning/high-school-students-and-undergraduates/learn-earn-and-explore), and will be working with Dr. Julia Oh, of the Center for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, CT. Dr. Oh’s work is focused on the development of microbiome therapeutics to treat human disease.Posted on February 22, 2024
- MCB Graduate Stephanie Schofield, (’23 CLAS), Among Ten UConn Fulbright Recipients for 2023-24UConn had 10 students named to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program in 2023-24, a record-setting number for the school. Among the recipients is Stephanie Schofield ('23 CLAS). Stephanie earned her UConn undergraduate degree in molecular and cell biology with a minor in psychological sciences. She is spending 2023-24 at the Institute of Human Genetics at […]Posted on February 20, 2024
- MCB Fall 2023 Grad Travel AwardJosette Nammour, Robinson Lab, received the Fall 2023 MCB Travel Award for her Research in Progress seminar entitled Altered Guanine Nucleotide Binding of BipA Negates Actin Pedestal Formation in EHEC. Congratulations to Josette!Posted on February 14, 2024
- MCB Spring 2024 Conference Participation Awardees AnnouncedMCB is proud to announce that John Briseno, Nadine Lebek, and Michelle Neitzey have received Spring 2024 Conference Participation Awards from the Graduate School. These awards support doctoral and MFA students’ ability to present their research at national or international meetings and conferences, including both in-person and virtual events.Posted on February 14, 2024
- MCB Undergrad Research Symposium – Submissions Now Being Accepted!Submissions are now being accepted for the 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium in Molecular and Cell Biology. Graduating senior MCB or Biophysics majors are encouraged to present their research project as a short 15 minute talk. Graduating Biology majors whose project is supervised by a MCB faculty member are also invited to present their work. If […]Posted on February 8, 2024
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Upcoming Events
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Mar
21
MCB Cell and Developmental Biology Journal Club 12:30pm
MCB Cell and Developmental Biology Journal Club
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
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This week in Cell and Developmental Biology Journal Club, Jameson Averill will lead a discussion of “Targeting TMEM205 mediated drug resistance in ovarian clear cell carcinoma using oncolytic virus” by Saini et al., 2022.
https://mcb.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2341/2024/03/Saini-et-al-2022.pdf
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Mar
22
MCB Related Proposal: Alexei Cooper 9:30am
MCB Related Proposal: Alexei Cooper
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
09:30 AM
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Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of Connecticut
Announces the
Related Proposal for the Doctoral Degree
Alexei Cooper
BS in Microbiology,
University of VermontInvestigation of cell morphology, horizontal gene transfer, and quorum sensing as intertwined processes in Haloferax volcanii
Friday, March 22, 2024
9:30 AM
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Major Advisor: Dr. Thane Papke
Associate Advisor: Dr. Dan Gage
Associate Advisor: Dr. Peter Gogarten
Associate Advisor: Dr. Aoife Heaslip
Associate Advisor: Dr. Simon WhiteContact Information:
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Mar
22
MCB Research in Progress: Hunter and Peterson 12:20pm
MCB Research in Progress: Hunter and Peterson
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
12:20 PM
Biology/Physics Building
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Mar
26
MCB Seminar: Andrius Dagilis, UConn EEB 3:30pm
MCB Seminar: Andrius Dagilis, UConn EEB
Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
03:30 PM
BPB
Dr. Andrius Dagilis
Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UConnHost: Jonathan Klassen
Speciation, hybridization and introgression – from theory to consequences in disease
Hybridization and its genomic consequence - introgression have been increasingly recognized as a crucial process in evolutionary biology. Using population genetic and genomic approaches, we show that it is a highly dynamic process that has likely contributed to the evolution of many species, including human fungal pathogens?
Bio: Dr. Andrius Dagilis is a Lithuanian population geneticist who works on a variety of problems in evolutionary biology, including hybridization, speciation, the evolution of sex chromosomes and structural variation across a wide array of systems. He obtained his PhD under the tutelage of Mark Kirkpatrick at UT Austin, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Matute lab at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he worked on the population genomics of Drosophila and fungal pathogens. He started his own lab at the University of Connecticut this spring, where he is planning to continue working on pathogenic fungi and the population genetics of co-evolution and hybridization.
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Mar
29
MCB Research in Progress: Pasqualetti and Kellermeier 12:20pm
MCB Research in Progress: Pasqualetti and Kellermeier
Friday, March 29th, 2024
12:20 PM
Biology/Physics Building
Sarah Pasqualetti, Milligan-McClellan Lab
Jacob Kellermeier, Heaslip LabContact Information:
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Recent Publications
Teschke Lab:
Bacteriophage P22 SieA-mediated superinfection exclusion
mbio
Goldhamer Lab:
Sex as a critical variable in basic and pre-clinical studies of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
Biomolecules
May Lab:
Curvature sensing lipid dynamics in a mitochondrial inner membrane model.
Commun Biol
Heaslip Lab:
F-actin and myosin F control apicoplast elongation dynamics which drive apicoplast-centrosome association inToxoplasma gondii
mbio
Gogarten Lab:
Protocol for an agent-based model of recombination in bacteria playing a public goods game.
STAR Protoc.
Alder/May Lab Collaboration:
Peptide Power: Mechanistic Insights into the Effect of Mitochondria-Targeted Tetrapeptides on Membrane Electrostatics from Molecular Simulations
Mol Pharm
Klassen Lab:
Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics
Nature
Alexandrescu Lab:
Solution NMR assignments and structure for the dimeric kinesin neck domain
Biol NMR Assign