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MCB News
We proudly announce the recipients of the 2018 graduate and undergraduate student summer fellowships!
Congratulations to Tom Abbott, who is named “Outstanding Faculty Advisor” for 2017-2018!
Dr. Abbott was nominated by students and recommended by them as well. In his official capacity as an advisor, he advises some Honor students, and is the faculty Predental advisor. In his unofficial capacity, he advises a large contingent of Biology 1107 students.
Congratulations to Celina Caetano and Annie Jin
…winners of the Lt. Paul Drotch Memorial Scholarship!
Congratulations to Sarah Hird, Eric May and Spencer Nyholm
…who received Fellowships for mentoring students through the process of developing proposals and submitting applications for awards!
Special Seminar: Science in Society
Join us March 26, 2018 for a special seminar from Dr. Arturo Casadevall. Seminar title: Crisis in biomedical sciences, time for reform?” 4pm, BPB 131. Reception to follow.
Congratulations to Dr. Robinson, a Recipient of the PITCH Promising Project Award for Antibiotic Development
Victoria Robinson, Ph.D., an associate professor in UConn’s Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, has received a promising project award from the UConn/Yale PITCH program to study a novel way of inhibiting bacterial activity and survival in hosts.
SEA-PHAGES at UConn
UConn has been selected to join the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (SEA-PHAGES) program in the 11th cohort of schools. MCB faculty Carol Teschke, Simon White, Peter Gogarten and Noah Reid applied to be part of the program, in which first or second year undergraduates participate […]
Dr. Juliana Cortines returns to UConn on a Fullbright Fellowship!
Former MCB post-doc in the Teschke Lab, Dr. Juliana Cortines, now Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Microbiology Institute, Virology Department, has received a Fulbright Fellowship to come back to UConn next academic year for Research and Teaching. She will be working in Dr. Teschke’s lab on characterizing a giant virus […]
John Malone has been invited to the United Nations Economic and Social Council to participate in the 2018 ESCOSOC forum!
Dr. Malone is part of the delegation of the Global Young Academy and UNESCO and has contributed to development of the concept note for SD17: The use of science, technology, and innovations in facilitating youth engagement, development, and resilience. Dr. Malone will participate in the panel discussions both days. The forum (The role of youth […]