Rachel J. O’Neill, Institute for Systems Genomics, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Genetics and Genome Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to be inducted into the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) for 2020. According to CASE, election to the Academy is based on the applicant’s scientific and engineering distinction, achieved through significant contributions […]
MCB Alum Jeehee Youn Elected President of Korean Assoc. of Immunologists
Dr. Jeehee Youn, who earned her Ph.D. in Michael Lynes’ laboratory in 1996, was recently elected President of the Korean Association of Immunologists (KAI) for 2021. She currently serves as vice president of that scientific society. Dr. Youn is shown here at the far right in a photo of her lab group during a visit […]
MCB Announces 2020 Summer Fellowship Awards
Congratulations to the following MCB students – they have been awarded 2020 graduate and undergraduate summer fellowships: Claire M. Berg Graduate Fellowship in Genetics – Nadine Lebek and Lauren Wainman Arthur Chovnick Graduate Fellowship in Genetics – Luke Wojenski Richard C. Crain, Jr. Memorial Fellowship – Wayne Mitchell Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship in MCB and Pharmaceutical Sciences […]
MCB Student Valeria Sarmiento ’20 Featured in UConn Today
Meet the Researcher: Valeria Sarmiento ’20, Molecular & Cell Biology March 11, 2020 – Samantha Korittke ’21 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research College is what you make of it and Valeria Sarmiento has undoubtedly made the most by pursuing her passions and trying to better understand the world. From a young age, Sarmiento […]
MCB Spring 2020 Doctoral Student Travel Fellowship Awards
Congratulations to the following MCB graduate students! Kristen Dostie, Rishabh Kejriwal, Virginia King, Amy Thees, Corey Theodore, and Jennifer Podgorski have been awarded a Spring 2020 Doctoral Student Travel Fellowship from the UConn Graduate School.
Internship Opportunity – Biohaven Pharmaceuticals
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals is a clinical/commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company located in New Haven, CT that is engaged in developing a portfolio of innovative, late-stage therapeutic candidate molecules that target, neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases, including rare disorders. They have new programs that reach into areas including migraine headache, inflammation and neurodegeneration. Biohaven runs a novel summer internship program […]
Dr. Michael Lynes Selected as Fulbright Scholar
Dr. Michael Lynes was recently selected to be a Fulbright Scholar and will work at the Center for Diabetes Research, University of Bergen (Norway) for the fall 2020 semester. He was also made a Senior Fellow of the Cell Stress Society International. Dr. Lynes has recently been awarded two new research grants: an NIH phase […]
Fake Centromeres Make-and Break-a Chromosome
The Mellone Lab was featured in UConn Today – UConn cell biologist Barbara Mellone, her student Jason Palladino, and colleagues report in the cover article of the 10 February issue of Developmental Cell that they were able to make fake centromeres that fooled cells into rearranging their chromosomes. Fluorescence images of mitotic cells with de […]
Dr. Carol Teschke Elected as Council Delegate in AAAS
Carol Teschke was elected as a Council Delegate from the Section on Biological Sciences in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Five Students Participating in URAP Receive Recognition
Five students participating in the Undergraduate Research Assistant Program (URAP) submitted abstracts as first authors and one as second author to the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research. This is the largest regional pediatric research meeting in the country. In addition, three of our students submitted abstracts, two were first authors and one second author, to […]