Judith A. and David C. Kelly Summer MCB Research Fellowships The 2023 recipients of the Judith A. and David C. Kelly Summer MCB Research Fellowship Awards are Sindy Gorka (Leighton Core’s lab), Klea Nito (Charlie Giardina’s lab), and Victoria Yi (Aoife Heaslip’s lab). The awards support three rising senior MCB majors in their research activities […]
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2022-2023 Graduate Student Awards
Fall ’22 MCB Graduate Travel Award Patrick Grady received the award in recognition of his 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 student. 2023 MCB Summer Fellowship Awards Claire M. Berg […]
2022-2023 MCB Faculty Awards, Promotions and Accolades
New Leadership in the Molecular and Cell Biology Department Dr. Carolyn Teschke has accepted the role of MCB department head and will serve in that position for the next five years. She is joined in the new administrative structure by Dr. Victoria Robinson, who will serve as Associate head for Graduate Research and Education, and […]
MCB Summer Fellowship Awards Announced
MCB is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 graduate and undergraduate student summer fellowships. These distinguished fellowships are made possible by some very generous donors and are offered on a competitive basis to the most highly qualified students. Please join us in congratulating them on their accomplishments and demonstrated academic promise. Claire M. […]
Undergraduate Research Colloquium in Molecular and Cell Biology – Call for Submissions!
Call for submissions! 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Colloquium in Molecular and Cell Biology Session I – Tuesday, April 11, 3:30-5:00 PM Session II – Friday, April 14, 12:20 – 2:00 PM The top three MCB presentations will be selected for participation in the All-Biology Symposium and will compete for multiple prizes. (learn more) If you […]
Judith A. and David C. Kelly Summer MCB Research Fellowship Opportunity
The Judith A. and David C. Kelly Summer MCB Research Fellowship program will support three rising senior MCB majors in their research activities in an MCB Faculty laboratory during the summer of 2023. These three fellowships, funded jointly by the Kellys and MCB, in the amount of $8,000 each, are intended to support students with […]
Heaslip Lab publication and cover photo in Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
A review paper entitled “Dense granule biogenesis, secretion and function in Toxoplasma gondii” was published in a special issue of Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. The paper is authored by graduate students Michael Griffith and Camille Pearce, Heaslip Lab. An image from the lab was featured on the cover, top right image.
“Biking and eating is fun!” MCB PhD Student Geno Villafano’s Adventures
Road Eats: When this Ph.D. student isn’t working in a genomics lab, he’s biking — and finding some truly wild things on the side of the road. (And, often, eating them!) See story in UConn Today
MCB Major, Tamborra-Walton Invited to the 2nd Annual BIG EAST Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium
Teresa Tamborra-Walton, an MCB major and senior undergraduate research student in the Lynes laboratory, has been selected to represent the University of Connecticut at the second annual BIG EAST Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium. Her work was chosen to represent the best of student research being done across all disciplines including natural sciences, physical sciences, social […]
Maltz-Matyschysk, Graf, Lynes Receive NIH Award
Michele Maltz-Matyschsyk, Joerg Graf, and Michael Lynes recently received an NIH award to support their work to define biomarker signatures of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C, an adverse effect of SARS-CoV2 infection). They will be working together with a consortium of other universities and research institutes in Connecticut and New York. Their work will measure multiple protein […]