Congratulations to the new executive board of GO:MCB for the 2019-2020 academic year!

President – Kathleen Kyle
Vice President – Irio Schiano
Treasurer – Patrick Grady
Secretary – Jacob Kellermeier
Outreach Coordinator – Meghan Wyatt

The horseshoe crab has persisted, unchanged, for hundreds of millions of years. But now, its survival is threatened by the harvesting of its prized baby-blue blood. A team at UConn seeks to map its DNA and save it from extinction.  Dr. O’Neill, graduate student Kate Castellano and colleagues are mapping a full assembly of the horseshoe crab’s DNA. (more…)

Social media is revolutionizing how scientists interact with the public
“One of the goals for my science communication, and my career, is to help people connect with sources of information that they can trust.” – Sarah McAnulty

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“We know that rapid adaptive evolution can happen in response to human-caused environmental change but we don’t have a great understanding of what factors facilitate it,” says Noah Reid, UConn research assistant professor in molecular and cell biology and a co-author. 

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Yueh-chiang Han from Tom Chen’s lab,
Kunica Asija from Carol Teschke’s lab,
Therese Tripler from Carol Teschke’s lab,
Lidia Beka from Joerg Graf’s lab,
Shail Kabrawala from Ken Campellone’s lab

MCB is proud to announce that Bryce Santinello has been awarded the Spring 2019 MCB graduate travel 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.

“Centromeres continue to be widely considered the ‘black hole’ of genomics,” says Barbara Mellone, associate professor of molecular and cell biology at UConn and lead author on the study.

View article in UConn Today