Elena Haarer ’21, Mehreen Pasha ’22, Vinayak Mishra ’21, and Elisabeth Rothman ’21 are among the 33 students who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants to support 2020-21 academic year projects. Elena Haarer ’21 – The Nuclear Option: Exploring Actin Cytoskeletal Functions in Cellular Aging Processes Mehreen Pasha ’22 – When Problems Become Solutions: Adapting […]
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MCB PSM Announces Two Summer Session Courses
MCB 5670-02 Theory and Practice of Laboratory Techniques in Microbiology – Bacterial DNA & RNA Isolation and Quality Control MCB 5671-02 Advanced Theory and Practice of Laboratory Techniques in Microbiology – Characterization of Microbial Communities by 16S rRNA gene sequencing
Dr. Michael Lynes Awarded U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award
Faculty Fulbright Scholars Explore Diabetes, Social Media, and Communication See article in UConn Today
Dr. Rachel O’Neill Inducted Into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Rachel J. O’Neill, Institute for Systems Genomics, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Genetics and Genome Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to be inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) for 2020. According to CASE, election to the Academy is based on the applicant’s scientific and engineering distinction, achieved through significant contributions […]
MCB Alum Jeehee Youn Elected President of Korean Assoc. of Immunologists
Dr. Jeehee Youn, who earned her Ph.D. in Michael Lynes’ laboratory in 1996, was recently elected President of the Korean Association of Immunologists (KAI) for 2021. She currently serves as vice president of that scientific society. Dr. Youn is shown here at the far right in a photo of her lab group during a visit […]
MCB Announces 2020 Summer Fellowship Awards
Congratulations to the following MCB students – they have been awarded 2020 graduate and undergraduate summer fellowships: Claire M. Berg Graduate Fellowship in Genetics – Nadine Lebek and Lauren Wainman Arthur Chovnick Graduate Fellowship in Genetics – Luke Wojenski Richard C. Crain, Jr. Memorial Fellowship – Wayne Mitchell Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship in MCB and Pharmaceutical Sciences […]
MCB Student Valeria Sarmiento ’20 Featured in UConn Today
Meet the Researcher: Valeria Sarmiento ’20, Molecular & Cell Biology March 11, 2020 – Samantha Korittke ’21 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research College is what you make of it and Valeria Sarmiento has undoubtedly made the most by pursuing her passions and trying to better understand the world. From a young age, Sarmiento […]
MCB Spring 2020 Doctoral Student Travel Fellowship Awards
Congratulations to the following MCB graduate students! Kristen Dostie, Rishabh Kejriwal, Virginia King, Amy Thees, Corey Theodore, and Jennifer Podgorski have been awarded a Spring 2020 Doctoral Student Travel Fellowship from the UConn Graduate School.
Internship Opportunity – Biohaven Pharmaceuticals
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals is a clinical/commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company located in New Haven, CT that is engaged in developing a portfolio of innovative, late-stage therapeutic candidate molecules that target, neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases, including rare disorders. They have new programs that reach into areas including migraine headache, inflammation and neurodegeneration. Biohaven runs a novel summer internship program […]