THE STORY COLLIDER PRESENTS: STORIES FROM UCONN SCIENTISTS
Dr. Sarah Hird was a storyteller at the Story Collider event in Hartford
September 27, 2018
Sarah McAnulty was interviewed in Nature Careers!
September 20, 2018
“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!
July 30, 2018
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!
July 11, 2018
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! (more…)
Scientists Crack Koala’s Genetic Code
July 10, 2018
An international team of scientists including UConn genomicist Rachel O’Neill have sequenced the first full koala genome!
Click here for full UConn Today article.
June 11, 2018: Dedication of the new Engineering and Science Building
June 18, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Teschke, the recipient of the 2018 Alice C. Evans award!
June 11, 2018
The Alice C. Evans award, presented at the ASM Microbe meeting, is named after ASM’s first female president. Dr. Teschke was featured in a special reception at the ASM Microbe meeting and recognized as an outstanding mentor to women in science.
Congratulations to the authors Eric Zuiderweg, Larry Hightower and Jason Gestwicki:
“The remarkable multivalency of the Hsp70 chaperones” by Zuiderweg et al., which appeared in Cell Stress & Chaperones Volume 22, number 2, has been selected by Springer Nature for inclusion in their 2018 Change the World Initiative.