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.

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 […]

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 […]

The grant is intended to fund the development of an assay that can be used to screen chemical libraries for compounds that enhance the activation of immune cells. If we can find active compounds, they could form the basis of strategies to enhance anti-viral and anti-cancer immunity.

This award, from Connecticut Innovations, is for work entitled  “A Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease”.

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Eric May has received an R35 (MIRA) award from NIH Institute of General Medical Sciences.  This flexible award will fund research in the May lab that falls under the project umbrella of “Structural Dynamics of Viral Proteins: Computational Investigation of Capsids, Lytic Peptides and Nucleoproteins Under Varying Conditions”

You can find the audio of this interview, on cephalopods, symbiosis, and immunity, at https://soundcloud.com/scifri/closing-out-the-cephaloparty Sarah’s interview begins at 9 minutes into this segment.

Barbara will receive the award at the 2016 American Society of Cell Biology meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday December 6, 2016.