What’s in a name? Well if it’s the person whose name is first on a paper, it’s pretty important, because that tells the scientific community who, ostensibly, did most of the work.
Author: Vining, Susan
Horseshoe Crabs: How Did They Get an Exception?
Researchers at UConn’s Institute for Systems Genomics are assembling a detailed map of the horseshoe crab’s DNA. Led by Geneticist Rachel O’Neil
Dr. Benson named AAAS Fellow
Four UConn professors, including three from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and one from UConn Health, were named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this week.
Prof. Eric May and Postdoc Shivangi Nangia will investigate Virus Infection Mechanisms on World’s Fastest Supercomputer for Biomolecular Simulations.
Drs. May and Nangia have received an allocation on the Anton2 supercomputer donated to the Pittsburg Supercomputing Center by D.E. Shaw Research. The allocation was granted based upon a competitive application process which involved peer review by a panel convened by the National Research Council. The allocation will allow them to analyze viral protein-membrane interactions […]
Congratulations to Stephen Hessler and Tyler Daman, recipients of the Beckman Coulter award.
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.
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!