Marion Milligan Mason was a proud member of AAAS whose will provided for the creation of a Fund to support early-career women in the chemical sciences.  In making this bequest she sought to honor her family’s commitment to higher education for women.

This award is funded by a bequest from the Marion Milligan Mason Fund. The goal of the Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences is to kick-start the research career of promising future senior investigators in the chemical sciences. The Marion Milligan Mason Fund will provide grants of $50,000 every other year to women researchers engaged in basic research in the chemical sciences. Awards are for women in the early stage of their academic research careers.

The 2015 Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences awardees will be formally announced by AAAS on October 15, 2015. The awardees are:

·       Alison Fout, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
·       Katherine Mackey, University of California Irvine
·       Kristin Parent, Michigan State University
·       Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, The University of Utah

CONGRATULATIONS, KRISTIN!

This award recognized one individual for outstanding contributions in the fields of science,  technology, engineering, math, and STEM education in Connecticut.

Ultimately, a group of four finalists with exceptionally strong credentials were selected:

Elizabeth Buttner, Science Education Consultant, Connecticut State Department of Education
Mark Dixon, Meteorologist, WFSB
Rachel O’Neill, Associate Director, Center for Applied Genetics and Technology, UConn
Chris Prytko, Technology Teacher, Manchester High School

The awards breakfast ceremony was held on May 5, 2015 and highlighted some of the achievements in STEM education in CT of each of the finalists. The award went to Mark Dixon.

CONGRATULATIONS, RACHEL!

Registration is open for the 12th Annual North Eastern Structure Symposium (NESS ’15).  This year will feature an outstanding lineup of investigators who will present research related to the topic of intrinsically disordered proteins. For more information and to register visit https://www.regonline.com/UConnNESS2015

Rockville, MD — The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Philip
Yeagle, University of Connecticut, has been named the recipient of the
Society’s 2016 Avanti Award in Lipids. Yeagle will be honored at the
Society’s 60th Annual Meeting at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los
Angeles, California, on Tuesday, March 1, during the Awards Symposium.
He also will give a short talk at that time.

Yeagle is being honored for his innovative applications of NMR to important
problems of biological interest that have altered thinking in the area of
membrane biophysics research. Avanti Polar Lipids, Inc., established this
award to recognize an investigator for outstanding contributions to our
understanding of lipid biophysics.

The Biophysical Society, founded in 1958, is a professional, scientific Society
established to encourage development and dissemination of knowledge in
biophysics. The Society promotes growth in this expanding field through its
annual meeting, monthly journal, and committee and outreach activities. Its
9000 members are located throughout the U.S. and the world, where they
teach and conduct research in colleges, universities, laboratories,
government agencies, and industry. For more information on these awards,
the Society, or the 2016 Annual Meeting, visit www.biophysics.org.

Faculty, staff and students from BCS, EEB, MCB and PNB gathered in the lawn outside Beach Hall to indulge in ice cream and reconnect with colleagues before the summer ends. What a wonderful way to spend a Wednesday afternoon! Thank you to our photographer Shail Kabrawala, a Cell and Developmental Biology PhD student from Dr. Campellone’s lab, and to CLAS for sponsoring this event.

Click here to view photos from the event.

Thanks to generous funding from CLAS, the Flow Cytometry Facility has acquired a brand-new state-of-the-art BD Fortessa X-20 flow analyzer. This instrument, which will replace our nearly 20 year old FACSCalibur, can acquire 18 fluorescence channels and is equipped with355 nm, 405 nm, 488 nm, 561 nm and 640 nm lasers. It also has a sampler that can acquire data from 96-well and 384-well plates.

If you have any questions about how this new instrument might benefit your research, please contact Adam Zweifach.

CS&C was founded in the MCB department  in 1999. For the last 3 years our journal has seen the following Impact Factor trend: [click for more] (more…)