April 1, 2019
The MCB Department is pleased to announce that the following students have been invited to join Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society. (more…)
What’s in a name? Well if it’s the person whose name is first on a paper, it’s pretty important, because that tells the scientific community who, ostensibly, did most of the work. (more…)
March 4, 2019
Researchers at UConn’s Institute for Systems Genomics are assembling a detailed map of the horseshoe crab’s DNA. Led by Geneticist Rachel O’Neil
March 1, 2019
February 8, 2019
Click for full article regarding Dr. Leighton Core’s $2 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
January 29, 2019
Click for full article regarding Dr. Joerg Graf’s election into the American Academy of Microbiology, an honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology.
January 17, 2019
Click for full article on Dr. Spencer Nyholm’s study which sequences the genome of the Hawaiian bobtail squid.
December 27, 2018
Click for full article on Dr. Nichole Broderick’s NHI grant supporting her study of the microbiome.
December 19, 2018
Exciting opportunities offered through the MCB Professional Science Master’s (PSM) program Winter Session 2019. Hands on training on state-of-the-art instruments through short, intense modular training courses. This winter we will be offering two modules. Open to graduate and undergraduate students with the required prerequisites. (more…)
December 17, 2018
With the help of an underwater submersible, they were able sequence the DNA of coral ecosystems thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean; in the protected Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, 130 miles off the coast of Massachusetts.
Click here for the full National Geographic article.