Welcome to the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Upcoming Events
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Aug
25
MCB Department Retreat10:00am
MCB Department Retreat
Thursday, August 25th, 2022
10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Avery Point Campus Avery Point
This event will feature new faculty talk(s), lunch, beverages, posters, and social activities. -
Aug
30
MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Lawrence David3:30pm
MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Lawrence David
Tuesday, August 30th, 2022
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus BPB 130
Dr. Lawrence David
Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Duke University
Host: Kat Milligan-McClellan
"Nutrient limitation and the gut microbiome"
Summary: How does diet shape gut microbial ecology across mammals?
Bio: Dr. Lawrence David is an associate professor in Duke University’s Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Interim Director of the Duke Microbiome Center. The David Lab studies relationships between diet, the gut microbiome and human health. The lab is also interested in engineering new tools at the interface of nutrition and microbiology, including building genomic approaches for tracking food intake and microfluidic techniques for high-throughput assay of microbial metabolism. Lawrence was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and he received a Ph.D. in Computational & Systems Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University. Lawrence has been named one of the 10 Scientists under 40 years old to watch by ScienceNews and his work has been recognized with innovator and investigator awards from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Searle Scholars Program, and the Arnold & Mabel Beckman, Hartwell, Alfred P. Sloan, and Damon Runyon Foundations.
To learn more about Dr. David and his work, view his publication https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-018-0267-7 and visit his website at http://www.ladlab.org
Join us at 3:15 in the BPB lobby for refreshments, Seminar begins at 3:30
Livestream here: https://www.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/2090521/uiconf_id/38934061/entry_id/1_904uedgo/embed/dynamic? -
Sep
9
MCB Faculty Meeting1:30pm
MCB Faculty Meeting
Friday, September 9th, 2022
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Storrs Campus TLS 263
September Faculty Meeting -
Sep
27
MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Jeremy Rotty3:30pm
MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Jeremy Rotty
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus BPB 130
Jeremy Rotty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Uniformed Services University
Host: Ken Campellone
Join us at 3:15 in the BPB lobby for refreshments, Seminar begins at 3:30
Dr. Rotty obtained a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Berea College. He then completed his PhD in the lab of Dr. Pierre Coulombe at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Rotty then completed his postdoctoral training in Dr. James Bear’s lab at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. Since 2017, Dr. Rotty has been an assistant
professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Uniformed Services University where he studies macrophage and microglial cell migration, cytoskeletal regulation and extracellular matrix sensing.
To learn more about Dr Rotty and his research, view his publication at https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/11/11/1806 and visit his website at https://medschool.usuhs.edu/bio/research/rotty-lab -
Oct
4
MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Will Ludington3:30pm
MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Will Ludington
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus BPB 130
Will Ludington, PhD
Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution for Science
Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Stacey Hanlon
Join us at 3:15 in the BPB lobby for refreshments, Seminar begins at 3:30
"A physical niche regulates assembly of a multispecies gut microbiota in Drosophila"
A complex microbial community inhabits the human gut and affects health. Using a less-complex model in Drosophila, we are working on mechanisms of how the host regulates gut microbiome colonization.
Dr. Ludington began his career in field ecology and invasive species eradications before getting into biophysics and cell biology. His lab studies gut colonization by symbiotic bacteria at scales ranging from molecules to populations of flies.
To learn more about Dr. Ludington's research, view his publication at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.30.462663v1 and his website at https://emb.carnegiescience.edu/science/faculty/william-ludington
