Assistant Professor Jelena Erceg (Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, CLAS & Institute for Systems Genomics, joint appointment also with the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, UConn Health) has received a prestigious R35 Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Institute of General […]
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New Publication from the Erceg Lab
Fleck K, Raj R and Erceg J (2022), The 3D genome landscape: Diverse chromosomal interactions and their functional implications. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 10:968145. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.968145
Associate Professor Jonathan Klassen Receives Funding from UConn’s Research Excellence Program (REP)
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) announced that Dr. Klassen’s proposal entitled “Who is Protecting Whom? Defining Defensive Roles in a Multipartite Symbiosis” has been selected for funding of $50,000. The goal of the OVPR’s Research Excellence Program is to provide seed funding to fuel innovative research, scholarship and creative endeavors that […]
Alder, Alexandrescu, May Labs Publish Collaborative Study
“Structure-activity relationships of mitochondria-targeted tetrapeptide pharmacological compounds” Wayne Mitchell, Jeffrey D Tamucci, Emery L Ng, Shaoyi Liu, Alexander V Birk, Hazel H Szeto, Eric R May, Andrei T Alexandrescu, Nathan N Alder https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.75531
New Publication from the Goldhamer Lab
Yamamoto, M., Stoessel, S. J., Yamamoto, S., and Goldhamer, D. J. (2022). Over-expression of wild-type ACVR1 in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva mice rescues perinatal lethality and inhibits heterotopic ossification. J. Bone Miner. Res. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbmr.4617
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Newsletter – Spring 2022
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Mellone Lab Publishes New Paper
Venkata S.P. Patchigolla, Barbara G. Mellone, Enrichment of Non-B-Form DNA at D. melanogaster Centromeres, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2022, evac054, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac054
Inaugural MCB Department Head Distinguished Service Award
The MCB Department is pleased to announce that the inaugural MCB Department Head Distinguished Service Award has been awarded to Katie Kyle for her efforts over the past few years on behalf of MCB. This award can be used to support research.
New Publication for the Klassen Lab
Fremin BJ, Bhatt AS, Kyrpides NC, Global Phage Small Open Reading Frame (GP-SmORF) Consortium* (*JL Klassen is a member of the GP-SmORF Consortium). 2022. Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes Cell Reports 39:110984 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124722007707
An Experimental Treatment Failed in Mice, and Researchers Did the Right Thing: They Published About It
The knowledge could help steer scientists toward more promising approaches. UConn Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology David Goldhamer, Alexion Pharmaceuticals researcher Jeffrey Hunter, and colleagues worked for years to discover a potential antibody therapy for FOP using accurate genetic mouse models of the disease developed by the two groups. The idea was that the […]