“A favorabe path to domain separation in the orange carotenoid protein” The computational study was led by postdoc Mahmoud Sharawy in theMay lab and was a collaboration with Jose Gascon in the UConn Chemistry Department. The study revealed how the orange carotenoid protein in cyanobacteria undergoes a dissociation event critical for photoprotection. See Cover
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Dr. Rachel O’Neill Contributes to Globe-Spanning Collaboration
Filling in the missing sections of the human genome has yielded interesting results. The T2T (Telomere-2-Telomere) project is a globe-spanning collaboration in which MCB’s Rachel O’Neill is a principal investigator with several UConn grad students contributing. Savannah Hoyt, Gabrielle Hartley, and Patrick Grady in Rachel O’Neill’s lab, and Luke Wojenski in Leighton Core’s lab. Read […]
Greetings from MCB Dept. Head Michael Lynes
The department of Molecular and Cell Biology is in fine fettle, having weathered another challenging year while marking notable successes by faculty, staff, and students. Our undergraduates have had a fine year: the 150 MCB honors students and university scholars have won 39 SURF awards (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships). Eight of our MCB students are […]
GO:MCB Announces New Officers
GO:MCB has announced the results from this year’s GO:MCB election: President: Michael Griffith Vice President: Michelle Neitzey Treasurer: Dan Phillips Secretary: Heather Jamieson Outreach Coordinator: Camille Pearce Diversity Facilitator: Sophia Gosselin DEIC Grad Representatives: John Briseno, Patrick Grady, Sophia Gosselin Congratulations to the new officers and representatives!
Summer Fellowship for MCB Majors, Class of ’23
The Judith A. and David C. Kelly Summer MCB Research Fellowship program will support three rising senior MCB majors in their research activities in an MCB Faculty laboratory during the summer of 2022. These three fellowships, funded jointly by the Kellys and MCB, in the amount of $8,000 each, are intended to support students with […]
MCB 2022 Summer Fellowships Announced
MCB Department Head, Michael Lynes, announced the recipients of the 2022 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Summer Fellowships. These distinguished fellowships are made possible by some very generous donors and are offered on a competitive basis to the most highly qualified students. Please join the department in congratulating them on their accomplishments and demonstrated academic promise. […]
MCB Professor Teschke Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
The Department would like to congratulate Dr. Carol Teschke for her recent election to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering was established in 1976 by Special Act of the Connecticut General Assembly to fulfill a need for authoritative and organized technical advice for state government. CASE […]
In the Vaccine Trenches – UConn Today Features MCB Graduate
UConn MCB alumni Jason Bennett, ’16 was featured in UConn Today – how his degree led him to be present at the birth of game-changing mRNA technology “People don’t realize there’s a giant world of biofarma out there where you can try different things and find where your passion lies” Jason Bennett See story in […]
MCB Student, Varsha Irvathraya ’23, Awarded UConn IDEA Grant
UConn announced the Fall 2021 IDEA (Imagine/Develop/Engage/Apply) grant award winners. Among them are MCB student Varsha Irvathraya ’23, Molecular and Cell Biology, CLAS. This award will support her summer 2022 project: Exploring the Role of Kctd6 in Regulating the Shh Signaling Pathway. Varsha will explore the pathways involved in limb development, with a focus on […]
Two MCB Students Profiled in NPSMA Alumni/Graduation Chronicle
Two of UConn MCB’s PSM alumni have been profiled in the National Professional Science Master’s Association’s annual newsletter. Marsenia Harrison Mathis, PSM, Microbial Systems Analysis 2009 and Maria Del Carmen Rosas, PSM, Applied Genomics, 2020 were profiled in the association’s newsletter, The PSM Alumni and Graduation Chronicle, 2021. Marsenia Harrison Mathis, MPH, M.S. Microbial Systems […]