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 […]
Author: Vining, Susan
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.
Winter Intersession PSM Course Offerings
Exciting opportunities offered in the Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program this winter. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This winter we will be offering four modules. In the intermediate and advanced modules, students will be trained on a next generation sequencing instrument, the Illumina MiSeq. Please see announcement for more information or […]
MCB major and honors student Yue (Jay) Lin ’15 is featured in the October issue of Inside CLAS.
Student Studies Humanity through Art and Medicine: In recent months, a Storrs-based version of the wildly popular Humans of New York blog—which shares the stories of strangers through photographs accompanied by short captions—has gained the attention of members of the UConn community. But readers of the Humans of UConn Facebook and Tumblr accounts may be […]
Sonya Haupt, a Honors student from Dr. Papke’s lab, was awarded the Life Sciences Honors Thesis Award
Congratulations, Sonya!
Release of MCB’s new annual newsletter, Expression
These are exciting times in MCB! We have decided to share our news with you through a new annual newsletter, Expression. We chose this name from amongst words used in molecular biology that express the positive, dynamic nature of the department. Gene expression symbolizes the response of a cell to changing conditions, a moving forward […]
Professor David Knecht: ‘Breadcrumb trail’ of fatty acid drives aggressive spread of melanoma.
Melanoma is an unusually aggressive cancer which spreads or metastasizes very quickly early in the tumor development. The driver of this spread away from the primary tumor has not been well understood. Now results of a new study have shown that melanoma cells follow a ‘breadcrumb trail’ of a fatty serum component called lysophosphatidic acid […]
MCB joins in the welcome for our colleagues at the new Jackson Laboratory Center for Genomic Medicine
MCB is developing many connections with the new Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine that has just opened on the Farmington Campus. A number of MCB faculty have already submitted grant proposals with JaxGM faculty, there are internship agreements with the Applied Genomics and Microbial Systems Analysis professional science master’s programs in MCB, as well as […]
Dr. Eric May and Graduate Student Jason Pattis to run simulations on world’s fastest computer for molecular dynamics.
Through a competitive application process run by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Dr. May and Pattis have received an allocation on the Anton supercomputer. Anton is a specialized supercomputer designed by D.E. Shaw Research for the sole purpose of performing molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules. May and Pattis will use their 50,000 node-hour allocation to compute […]
MCB Undergrads Making the News!
Click to view the NBC video. UConn students, CT Children’s medical researchers and children and their families are partnering in a novel collaboration and changing the face of medical care for kids in Connecticut. The UCONN students in the Undergraduate Research Associate Program (URAP) in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, work closely with […]