Faculty, staff and students from BCS, EEB, MCB and PNB gathered in the lawn outside Beach Hall to indulge in ice cream and reconnect with colleagues before the summer ends. What a wonderful way to spend a Wednesday afternoon! Thank you to our photographer Shail Kabrawala, a Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student from Dr. […]
Author: Vining, Susan
Congratulations to Katrina Velle, from the Campellone lab, who was awarded a Wiley Poster Prize for her presentation at the FASEB Summer Research Conference on Microbial Pathogenesis.
Brand-new state-of-the-art BD Fortessa X-20 flow analyzer:
Thanks to generous funding from CLAS, the Flow Cytometry Facility has acquired a brand-new state-of-the-art BD Fortessa X-20 flow analyzer. This instrument, which will replace our nearly 20 year old FACSCalibur, can acquire 18 fluorescence channels and is equipped with355 nm, 405 nm, 488 nm, 561 nm and 640 nm lasers. It also has a […]
Larry Hightower and Helen Neumann are excited to announce that the 2014 Impact Factor for Cell Stress & Chaperones is 3.163
CS&C was founded in the MCB department in 1999. For the last 3 years our journal has seen the following Impact Factor trend: [click for more]
AAAS successfully launched Science Advances with Philip Yeagle.
AAAS has successfully launched Science Advances, with Philip Yeagle as a deputy Editor. Science Advances, a sister journal to Science (the premier scientific journal in the world, along with Nature) as an on-line, open access and prestigious venue for the most exciting advances in science. Philip Yeagle, along with 5 other international Deputy Editors, is […]
MCB Professional Science Master’s Summer Biology Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program this May term and Summer Session. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This summer we will be offering nine modules. In the intermediate and advanced modules, students will be trained on a next generation sequencing instrument, the Illumina […]
Congratulations to Kunal Dolas, from Dr. Papke’s lab, who was selected to receive funding to attend the 2015 NEMPET Meeting.
Kunal will present a poster titled “Role of HVO_1477 (Archaeal Lipoprotein Nuclease) in eDNA metabolism and Natural Transformation of Haloferax volcanii” on June 26, 2015.
On May 12, 2015 UConn MCB hosted the 4th Annual CT Symbiosis Symposium
We had 78 registrants from 8 different institutions. There were 7 talks throughout the day, including systems as diverse as insect-microbe interactions, the human microbiome, and the sociobiology of the genome and topics ranging from genomics to physiology to chemistry. The day ended with a well-attended poster session including 25 presenters from throughout the Connecticut […]
Congratulations to Dr. Papke who recently received a 3 year, $699,718 grant award from NASA!
NASA: Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology: Epigenetics, DNA uptake, and Phosphorus cycling are intertwined processes in the hypersaline adapted archaeal class Halobacteria.