Sarah received the “Best Short Talk” award at the 2017 Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium AND was runner up for “Best Student Talk” for the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the 2017 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology!

This award recognizes Dr. Spurling’s passion to inspire students and actions that connect to Theta aspirations: intellectual curiosity, leadership potential, commitment to service, and personal excellence.
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In collaboration with Marcy Balunas, UConn School of Pharmacy and Pieter Dorrestein, UC San Diego Institute of Engineering in Medicine.

Four UConn professors, including three from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and one from UConn Health, were named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this week. (more…)

Drs. May and Nangia have received an allocation on the Anton2 supercomputer donated to the Pittsburg Supercomputing Center by D.E. Shaw Research. The allocation was granted based upon a competitive application process which involved peer review by a panel convened by the National Research Council. The allocation will allow them to analyze viral protein-membrane interactions over  timescales which are not feasible on standard supercomputing environments.

 

This award enabled Stephen and Tyler to attend the prestigious Advanced Analytical Ultracentrifugation Workshop and Symposium in Danbury, CT. The Advanced AUC workshop is a leading scientific event for promoting training, collaboration, and innovation in the field of protein interaction science and technology. (more…)

Graduate students, Corynne Dedeo (left) and David Lei (right), utilizing the lightboard technology in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to create tutorial videos to assist students in MCB 2000 with kinetic data analysis.

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