Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) has named Virginia Lyle King as a winner of the 2024 MBOC Paper of the Year Award for her research paper, F-actin–rich territories coordinate apoptosome assembly and caspase activation during DNA damage–induced intrinsic apoptosis. Awarded to the first author on a paper (grad student or postcoc), King was chosen […]
MCB News
MCB Undergraduate Student Success
MCB Graduate Stephanie Schofield, (’23 CLAS), Among Ten UConn Fulbright Recipients for 2023-24 2024 SURF Awards Keertana Chagari ’25 (Molecular and Cell Biology, CLAS) Project Title: Reproducible Bioinformatic Workflows to Produce Diploid Phased Eukaryotic Genome Assemblies Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jill Wegrzyn, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Peter Fatzinger ’26 (Molecular and Cell Biology, CLAS) Project Title: […]
2023-2024 MCB Graduate Student Awards
Fall 2023 /Spring 2024 MCB Graduate Travel Award Josette Nammour received the Fall award and XXXX received the Spring award in recognition of their outstanding graduate seminar. This bi-annual award provides support to students for conference attendance to enrich their graduate program study and is offered on a competitive basis to the most highly qualified […]
First-Ever Sequencing of Great Ape X and Y Chromosomes
UConn researchers helped complete nationwide effort to understand ape genome. Tor the first time, researchers have assembled a complete “end-to-end” reference genome for the sex chromosomes of five great ape species and one lesser ape species. The findings shed light on the evolution of sex chromosomes and inform understanding of diseases related to genes on these chromosomes in both apes and humans.
Our newest MCB colleague Professor Dylan Murray received his undergraduate training at SUNY-Plattsburgh in Physics. After graduating, he spent three years in an X-ray crystallography laboratory at the University of Vermont studying surface charge density in the enzyme lysozyme. His exposure to biological research convinced him to pursue doctoral work developing solid-state NMR (ssNMR) methods […]
GO:MCB Announces 24-25 Executive Board
GO:MCB has announced the results of the 24-25 e-board election.
Education in Aging and Geroscience Research Program (EAGR) announces 2024 Scholars
EAGR Program Director, Kenneth Campellone is pleased to announce that six undergraduate students have been named as 2024 scholars. Bailey Millis, Kelsey Gorgei, Emily Szydlo, Elizabeth Parkerson, Milad Zameeri, and RoseMina Notch will participate in an immersive, hands-on Summer research program in Geroscience research labs at UConn and UConn Health. The UConn Undergraduate Education in […]
Rachel O’Neill Contributes to Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration
The $15 million NSF-funded initiative, EvoME Institute, seeks to generate new biological insights and help scientists forecast the future effects of climate change in Arctic ecosystems and beyond. Read the story in UConn Today
Arcane Archaea
The Santiago-Martinez lab uses modern approaches to investigate ancient things. -by Stacey Hanlon Cellular life on Earth can be classified into one of three domains: Eukarya (Eukaryota), Bacteria, and Archaea. Though most of us are familiar with species that fall into the Eukaryota and Bacteria domains, those belonging to the Archaea domain are often ignored […]
Heaslip Promoted to Associate Professor
Please join us in congratulating Aoife Heaslip on her promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure!