The “Partnership for Innovation and Education” project will integrate educational endeavors of a number of Connecticut academic institutions with the goal of educating and training students for careers in biotechnology. A major benefit of the program is the availability of financial support for internships (30-40 in total), which will facilitate student training and provide important […]
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On Friday January 12, 2018 over thirty UConn Drosophila researchers from the Storrs and UCHC campuses met for the 5th Fly Club.
Club brings together faculty, graduate students, postdocs and research assistants to share their research projects and to exchange ideas, and research tools. The Club acknowledges the support of Associate CLAS Dean Andy Moiseff for support.
3 Minute Thesis presentations, Elevator Pitches, and Seminars: Narratives Work
Ken Noll will be presenting a communications workshop entitled, “3 Minute Thesis presentations, Elevator Pitches, and Seminars: Narratives Work” for MCB graduate students. It will take place on Mondays January 22 to March 5 from 4-5 pm in room BPB 201.
Eric May has just been notified that he is one of four recipients of “The OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry” by the American Chemical Society.
The other three awardees are from MIT (one in Chemical Engineering and one from the Department of Chemistry), and one from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemistry. The award will be presented at the ACS annual meeting in New Orleans this March 2018.
Congratulations to Rachel O’Neill, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, on her appointment as Director of the Institute for Systems Genomics (ISG).
The ISG was founded to facilitate and expand genomic research at UConn and has recently celebrated its 5th year at a symposium which featured, among other renown genomicists, Eric Greene, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute as the keynote speaker. Dr. O’Neill is a genomicist studying how genomes of diverse organisms maintain their […]
Check out the construction progress of the new Engineering Science Building (ESB)!
MCB Professional Science Master’s Winter Courses
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program Winter Session 2018.
Congratulations to Prof. Ken Noll, who has been awarded the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Public Engagement in the Tenure Track Faculty member category!
Ken will be recognized, along with the other award recipients, at the Excellence in Public Engagement Reception on Tuesday, November 14th.
MCB Major, Brian Aguilera, took part in the new Health Research Program!
Aguilera was selected to work in the lab of assistant professor Mallika Ghosh in the Center for Vascular Biology at UConn Health, where he studied the protein enzyme CD13 and its effects on the formation of tunneling nanotubes (TNTs),