MCB presented the 2021 Khairallah Symposium on Tuesday, November 16. This year’s guest speaker was Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo, Professor of Developmental and Molecular Biology and of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and co-director of the Einstein Institute for Aging Studies. Faculty and students filled the lecture hall for the in-person event and were […]
Competition for the Paul L. Drotch Award Now Open
Scholarships of $5000 or more are offered in memory of Paul L. Drotch, class of 1957. This competition is open to UConn undergraduates in Biology including Biological Sciences, EEB, MCB, PNB and Structural Biology and Biophysics who have demonstrated both financial need and outstanding scholarship and who have completed a minimum of 3 and a […]
Giardina Elected Senior Fellow by the CSSI Executive Council
Professor Charles Giardina, University of Connecticut, has been elected a 2021 Senior Fellow by the CSSI Executive Council. Giardina is a founding member of the Cell Stress and Chaperones Board of Reviewing Editors. He has done a record eighty reviews and is coauthor on six articles in our Journal as well.
Passing of MCB Emeritus Professor Emory H. Braswell
MCB Emeritus Professor Emory H. Braswell died September 27, 2021, leaving his wife Frima Braswell, three grown children and five grandchildren. Dr. Braswell started his career at UConn in 1962 in the Department of Chemistry. In 1967 he transferred to the Biochemistry and Biophysics Section of the Biological Sciences Group, the common ancestor of the […]
MCB Microbe Hunters Course a ‘Coveted Class’ in UConn Today
UConn Today recently published a story highlighting professors Patricia Rossi and Spencer Nyholm and their course, MCB 2612: Microbe Hunters. View article in UConn Today
Nyholm Lab Review Article Featured on Cover of Nature Reviews Microbiology
Nyholm lab published Nature Reviews Microbiology, ” A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00567-y and Nature Reviews Microbiology Special Symbiosis Edition featured the squid from that review for the cover!
MCB 2021 Departmental Retreat
MCB held a Departmental Retreat on Thursday, August 26th. After welcoming remarks, the 2021 MCB graduate awards were announced. Following a ‘Get to Know the New Students’ event, new faculty member, Assistant Professor, Jelena Erceg presented a talk, “Genome Folding and Regulation in Diploid Multicellular Organisms” A fun trivia session preceded the Lab Poster Sessions. […]
2021 MCB Grad Orientation
MCB welcomed new graduate students at a virtual orientation held Thursday, August 26th. View presentation here.
MCB PSM Fall 2021 Orientation
The Fall MCB PSM/PM Orientation event was held Thursday, 9/2. The event was held in-person and the students seemed enthusiastic, energetic and appreciative of the face to face companionship.
UConn Virus Expert and MCB Professor Carol Teschke Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Study in the UK
Teschke will spend four months at the University of York studying the geometry and evolution of a type of virus that could help develop antivirals. Story in UConn Today, Amanda Song, CLAS Carolyn Teschke, professor and department head of molecular and cell biology at UConn, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to study virus assembly and evolution at […]