Prof. Hightower received the 2017 CSSI Medallion for his discoveries about Heat Shock Proteins, Thermotolerance and the Proteotoxic Stress Response.
Month: August 2017
J. Peter Gogarten and R. Thane Papke received a grant from the NSF-MCB/BSF program
(UConn portion: $817,279.-) for a collaborative research project with Lilach Hadany and Uri Gophna (Tel Aviv University) to study “Rare Genes and Alleles in Halophilic Archaeal Populations and Communities”.
PSM’s 2017 UConn-TIP Summer Immersion Fellowship Participants
2 PSM students, Ethan Cope and Alex Gojmerac, were 2017 UConn-TIP Summer Immersion Fellowship Participants, allowing them the opportunity to learn about startups and entrepreneurship during a 10-week immersion program.