News

4/08 - Interview on WILI - Ken Noll held forth concerning Alternate Sources of Energy to the local radio audience.
4/08 - Teaching Award - Juliet Lee honored for receiving the Teachers for a New Era Fellowship.
4/08 33 MCB students join Phi Beta Kappa - Epsilon Heather Dancer, Cailin Deal, Vinita Dora, Heather Dowling, Linda Drozdowicz, Kirsten Frostad, Rickinder Grewal, Daniel Kim, Pratistha Koirala, Jacquelin Kubinski, Rebecca LaFleur, Allison Lemkin, James Mangan, Alexander Meeske, Kelly Miller, Catherine O'Neill, Aniello Picone, Gregory Pivarnik, Chad Sagnella, Christopher Soares, Rinku Sureja, Long Hoang Tu, Caitlin Alex, Julia Auer, John Eicher, Seth Hosmer, Amy Jancewicz, Rinu Joseph, Aaron Lee, Michael Levinson, Paula Lucuara, Kellyn Misset, Holly Vinal
4/08 New NASA grant - Kenneth Noll & Peter Gogarten- "Genome-based investigations into the nature of he common ancestor of the Thermotogales"
4/08 New DOE grant - Wolf Dieter Reiter "Genetic Analysis of Nucleotide Sugar Interconversions in Arabidopsis" - 3 yrs.
4/08 - Goldwater Scholar Honorable Mention - Sonali Shah, a junior with a double major in MCB and Nutrition was named Honorable Mention in the Barry Goldwater scholarship competition.
4/08 - Student fellowship award - Dawn Carone, a Ph.D. student in Rachel O'Neill's lab, was awarded an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute in Australia fellowship for the summer of 2008 - the only one in molecular biology this year.
3/08 New NIH-GM grant Redesign of structural regions of alkaline phosphatase. D. A. Kendall
3/08 - 2008 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards - Six awards were made to MCB students Long Tu (Teschke), Kaitlin Vaughan (Graf), Harris Sultan (Zweifach), Steven Treaster (Tian), Hareen Makanji (Robinson), and Pratistha Koirala (Goldhamer)!. Congratulations to the students and their advisors for receiving these highly competitive awards. [MORE INFORMATION].
9/07 New NIH/NIDA grant Determinants of the Cannabinoid Receptor Life Cycle. D. A. Kendall
2/08 - Legacy Leaders - Four out of 12 Legacy Leaders are MCB and SB&B majors! These students are selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants across campus Congratulations to Linda Drozdowicz, Pratistha Koirala, Heeren Makanji and Robert Slattery.
3/08 - University Scholars - Three MCB majors out of 14 juniors have been named University Scholars: Heeren Makanji ‐( Robins on, Kendall, Knecht); Anu Nellissery - (Birge, Albert, Papadimitrakopoulos); Robert Slattery - (Langlois, Gogarten, Knoblauch).[info]
2/08 New Grant - NIH/NIND - "Locus specific imprinting on the mammalian X-chromosome" - Michael O'Neill
2/08 New Grant - OxyHeal Health Group "OxyHeal/UConn Project on Stress Conditioning Cultured Cells using Hyperbaric Oxygen" L. E. Hightower & C. A. Giardina.
Rachel O'Neill's freshman honors course "Genetics Legacies: A Connecticut Slave's Story" was featured in the Dec. 10 issue of the Hartford Courant.
Greg Fournier (Gogarten Lab) won the 2008 Sherwood Chang Award for a poster on "Evolutionary Chronology of Ribosomal Subunits Contains Evidence of Genetic Code Evolution" that he presented at the 2008 Origin of Life Gordon Research Conference.
1/15/08 - The J. Virology article Ngunjiri, J. M., M. J. Sekellick and P. I. Marcus. 2008. Clonogenic Assay of Type A Influenza Viruses Reveals Noninfectious Cell-Killing (Apoptosis-Inducing) Particles has been selected for inclusion in "Spotlight" that highlights articles of high interest.
5/07 New Grant NASA Exploration of Sequence Space and the Evolution of the Genetic Code. J. P. Gogarten
9/07 New Grant NSF-MCB Mechano-Sensing and the Integration of Cytoskeletal Function in Moving Cells Juliet Lee
Schwenk Graduate Fellowships. Adam Silver from the Graf lab, and Colleen Spurling from the Giardina lab, have been named Schwenk graduate student mentors. The fellowships are funded by CLAS and the Schwenk Fund for Innovative Science Education.
J. Peter Gogarten was selected as one of BioMed Central's Hot 100 authors.
11/07 New Grant NSF-DUE Integration and Dissemination of Inquiry Based Video Microscopy and Image Processing Labs into the Undergraduate Curriculum. D. Knecht & L. McCollam-Guilani
10/07New Grant - NSF MRI: "Acquisition of a Confocal Live Cell Imaging System" PI- Knecht, co-PI Zweifach, Lee, Grant, Gaxiola