Author: Vining, Susan
Congratulations to MCB Faculty Emeritus, Dr. Philip Yeagle, a Deputy Editor, and Dr. Joerg Graf, an Associate Editor, of the new journal, Science Advances!
Science Advances is a sister journal to the well known premier journal, Science.
Dr. Carolyn Teschke has been selected to participate at the department of state or USAID for a year, beginning in August 2015.
Click here for more information on the Jefferson Science Fellowship Program. Congratulations, Dr. Teschke!
Applications available for the Lt. Paul L. Drotch Memorial Scholarship in the Biological Sciences
This Scholarship is open to UConn undergraduates in biology including Biological Sciences, EEB, MCB, PNB and Structural Biology and Biophysics who have demonstrated both outstanding scholarship and substantial financial need for this academic year as determined by the Financial Aid office. Students must have completed a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 6 semesters […]
MCB Tuesday Seminar Series starts January 20th!
A recent series of articles written by MCB graduate student Scott Chimileski (from the Papke Lab) were among the top 10 most read on the Naturejobs blog at the end of 2014.
Scott argued that there is room for optimism among recent pessimism regarding science jobs and funding by looking at historical trends and interviewing successful scientists, including MCB assistant professor Jonathan Klassen.
MCB Notes December 2014 issue released
Highlighting Asst. Professor Leighton Core’s recent Nature Genetics article, a new grant awarded to Assoc. Prof. Kenneth Campellone, the 2014 Khairallah Symposium, and the accomplishments of MCB Honors undergraduate Sonya Haupt, SB3 graduate student Jason Pattis, and Prof. David Goldhamer.
Associate Professor Nathan Alder has been awarded a five-year, $1.5 million grant from National Institutes of Health for his project, “Investigation of the Subunit and Lipid Interactions of the Mitochondrial Protein Import Machinery.”
This research will focus on the molecular mechanisms by which the TIM23 complex mediates the transport of nuclear-encoded proteins into mitochondria using a host of biochemical, biophysical, and structural approaches.
Drs. Graf and Gogarten featured in the UConn Today!
Bacteria’s Game of ‘Telephone’ Foils Microbiologists’ Eavesdropping: While human families are easily illustrated as a tree, bacterial families look more like a heap of branches. Scientists are trying to trace the connections between those branches in an effort to learn more about the bacteria that harm us, and those that do not. UConn’s Peter Gogarten […]
Drs. Graf and Gogarten received ~$400,000 grant from the USDA
entitled “Establishment Of Genomic Tools For Investigating Fish Pathogens”. As part of this grant they will sequence the genomes of several important fish pathogens, Yersinia ruckeri and Aeromonas spp, perform metatranscriptomic analyses of Y. ruckeri and Flavobacterium physcrophilium, and develop a cell culture model to assess virulence of different bacterial fish pathogens.