MCB Professor Barbara Mellone featured in UConn Today

Convening top global experts on diabetes genomics and pathogenesis, the Type 2 Diabetes & Metabolism Symposium will take place on November 14 and 15, 2019 at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Conn. Where: The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington CT When: November 14-15, 2019 This special symposium will be hosted by […]

MCB Associate Professor Barbara Mellone received a $2.6million R35-MIRA grant from the National Institute of Health to fund her research on an elusive yet vital chromosomal structure that all plant and animal share: the centromere. This five year grant will support research efforts to determine the contribution of DNA repeats and centromere chromatin to the […]

On Wednesday, August 21, the MCB Department held it’s annual Retreat and Grad Orientation at UConn’s Avery Point Campus. It was a great day including scavenger hunts, trivia games, lunch, poster session, networking with faculty and of course, the awarding of the MCB 2019 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Summer Fellowships. Congratulations to the recipients! These […]

Nidhi Vijayan, Nyholm Lab, tweeted a movie she took of baby bobtail squid and Scientific America deemed it one of last week’s best science GIFs Watch here!

AAAS Announces John Malone of the University of Connecticut and Global Young Academy as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow Washington DC (20 August 2019) — John Malone of the University of Connecticut has been awarded a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship (STPF) with a placement at the Office of Science and Technology […]

MCB is proud to announce that Anthony Patelunas has been awarded a Fall 2019 Doctoral Student Travel Fellowship by UConn the Graduate School. This bi-annual award provides support to students for conference attendance to enrich their graduate program study. Anthony is a member of the Goldhamer Lab.

MCB is proud to announce that Cory Jubinville has been awarded a Fall 2019 Doctoral Student Travel Fellowship by UConn the Graduate School. This bi-annual award provides support to students for conference attendance to enrich their graduate program study. Cory is a member of the Goldhamer Lab.