Tuesday, October 23rd, Dr. Raja Jothi, Senior Investigator and Chief, Systems Biology Section, NIEHS, NIH presented his talk entitled “Uncovering Unknown Unknowns of Gene Regulation,” made possible by The Dr. Edward A. Khairallah and Dr. Lamia H. Khairallah Fund for Scholarship.
MCB News
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Company acquires an option to license an anti-metallothionein antibody from Michael Lynes for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.
This investment will develop the potential therapeutic applications that Dr. Lynes, his MCB lab group, and collaborators at the University of Gent and Joslin Diabetes Center have been working to elucidate.
A write up on a paper by Beka et al in mBio https://mbio.asm.org/content/9/4/e01328-18
NESS Symposium – Registration Deadline Oct 5
The 15th Annual North Eastern Structure Symposium (NESS), to be held on Saturday October 20, 2018 at UConn Health in Farmington, CT. This year’s theme is Biomolecular Design and Structure Prediction. The abstract submission deadline is October 5th. For more information about the meeting and to register, please visit our website at: https://pesb.uconn.edu/ness-18/
Dr. Sarah Hird was a storyteller at the Story Collider event in Hartford
THE STORY COLLIDER PRESENTS: STORIES FROM UCONN SCIENTISTS
Sarah McAnulty was interviewed in Nature Careers!
“The squid biologist connecting schools and scientists worldwide!” Click here for full article.
Congratulations to Sarah McAnulty, who was awarded a $20,000 dissertation fellowship from the American Association of University Women!
The Graf lab published a paper in mBio about how tiny amounts of antibiotics inside the leech lead to patients being infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Press coverage about the publication and its implications: STAT, UConn Today, Youtube video and more!
Thanks to all who came to this year’s All Biology Networking Event!
Dr. Spencer Nyholm’s talk at the Beneficial Microbes Conference in Madison, Wisconsin is on the homepage of sciencenews.org AND Newsweek’s website!
One squid has a unique solution to keep her eggs healthy, according to new research in the Nyholm lab—bacteria and jelly. Click to read more!