This award enabled Stephen and Tyler to attend the prestigious Advanced Analytical Ultracentrifugation Workshop and Symposium in Danbury, CT. The Advanced AUC workshop is a leading scientific event for promoting training, collaboration, and innovation in the field of protein interaction science and technology.
Author: Vining, Susan
Graduate students, Corynne Dedeo (left) and David Lei (right), utilizing the lightboard technology in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to create tutorial videos to assist students in MCB 2000 with kinetic data analysis.
Inside MCB 3895-003 with David Daggett’s Developmental Biology Laboratory
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Congratulations to Katrina Velle (on right), who took home 3rd place in the 2016 3 Minute Thesis Live Competition.
Thesis title: “Surfing on Pedestals: How Pathogenic E. coli Spreads Infection.”
MCB Welcomes 3 New Faculty
We are very pleased to welcome Sarah Hird, Assistant Professor, Crystal Morales, Assistant Professor-in-Residence at the Greater Hartford Campus, and Noah Reid, Assistant Research Professor, to our department!
North East Structural Symposium on October 14
The annual North East Structure Symposium (NESS) is devoted on contemporary topics in structural biology. The meeting will be held Friday, October 14 in the Grossman Auditorium, 400 Farmington Ave. on the UConn Health campus with a focus on “New Paradigms in Drug Discovery.” Go to http://ness.nmrbox.org/ for a list of speakers and registration information.
Rachel O’Neill recently received a $999,999 grant from the NSF. Project Title: Collaborative Research: Impact of a Novel Retrotransposon Expansion on Centromere Function.
Centromeres ensure the correct segregation of chromosomes during cell division and are fundamental to genome evolution. While expansions of DNA within centromeres are known for many species, most centromeres are stable over evolutionary time and are relatively uniform across all centromeres in one genome. Thus, decoupling the equilibration events that occur across chromosomes from the […]
The Tiniest Parasites (an article from UConn Today on work being done in the Gogarten Lab):
Bacteria are the smallest organisms that scientists agree are alive. But there are even smaller things that parasitize bacteria. UConn microbiologists have been studying a single gene that is a parasite of bacteria, and in the July 26 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they report that while it can hamper […]
MCB Faculty, Wolf-Dieter Reiter, retires after 23 years.
Well known for his challenging and invaluable advanced biochemistry course, Dr. Reiter has played a central role in elucidating the biosynthetic pathways of cell wall biosynthesis. His party cake memorialized that fact with an image in green icing of Arabidopsis thaliana, one of the key model systems in this area. Best wishes on your retirement, […]