Author: Jessica Williamson

Dr. Rachel O’Neill and graduate student, Kate Castellano, spent two weeks with a team of researchers from Woods Hole, OceanX, and NASA aboard the Alucia research vessel.

With the help of an underwater submersible, they were able sequence the DNA of coral ecosystems thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean; in the protected Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, 130 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. Click here for the full National Geographic article.

NESS Symposium – Registration Deadline Oct 5

The 15th Annual North Eastern Structure Symposium (NESS), to be held on Saturday October 20, 2018 at UConn Health in Farmington, CT.  This year’s theme is Biomolecular Design and Structure Prediction.  The abstract submission deadline is October 5th. For more information about the meeting and to register, please visit our website at:   https://pesb.uconn.edu/ness-18/