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News

  • MCB DEI Committee Presents Special Seminar and Workshop
    The MCB DEI committee invites you to attend and participate in a Keynote lecture on April 2 at 3:30 PM in BPB131 and Workshop April 3 at 10 AM in ESB 121. Our speaker is Dr. B. Chad Starks, Founder and CEO of BCS Associates. Dr. B. Chad Starks is a writer, speaker, and educator […]
    Posted on March 19, 2024
  • MCB Student Cassandra Correa Chosen for 2024 Jackson Laboratory Summer Student Program
    Cassandra Correa (Lynes Laboratory) has been chosen for the 2024 Jackson Laboratory Summer Student Program (https://www.jax.org/education-and-learning/high-school-students-and-undergraduates/learn-earn-and-explore), and will be working with Dr. Julia Oh, of the Center for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, CT.  Dr. Oh’s work is focused on the development of microbiome therapeutics to treat human disease.
    Posted on February 22, 2024
  • MCB Fall 2023 Grad Travel Award
    Josette Nammour, Robinson Lab, received the Fall 2023 MCB Travel Award for her Research in Progress seminar entitled Altered Guanine Nucleotide Binding of BipA Negates Actin Pedestal Formation in EHEC. Congratulations to Josette!
    Posted on February 14, 2024
  • MCB Spring 2024 Conference Participation Awardees Announced
    MCB is proud to announce that John Briseno, Nadine Lebek, and Michelle Neitzey have received Spring 2024 Conference Participation Awards from the Graduate School. These awards support doctoral and MFA students’ ability to present their research at national or international meetings and conferences, including both in-person and virtual events.
    Posted on February 14, 2024

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Upcoming Events

  1. Mar 29 MCB Research in Progress: Pasqualetti and Kellermeier 12:20pm
  2. Apr 1 MCB Dissertation Defense: Jeffrey D. (JD) Tamucci 1:00pm
  3. Apr 1 MCB Microbiology Journal Club 4:00pm
  4. Apr 2 MCB DEI Seminar: B. Chad Starks 3:30pm
  5. Apr 3 MCB DEI Special Workshop with Dr. B. Chad Starks 10:00am
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Recent Publications

Teschke Lab:
Bacteriophage P22 SieA-mediated superinfection exclusion
mbio

Goldhamer Lab:
Sex as a critical variable in basic and pre-clinical studies of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
Biomolecules

May Lab:
Curvature sensing lipid dynamics in a mitochondrial inner membrane model.
Commun Biol

Heaslip Lab:
F-actin and myosin F control apicoplast elongation dynamics which drive apicoplast-centrosome association inToxoplasma gondii
mbio

Gogarten Lab:
Protocol for an agent-based model of recombination in bacteria playing a public goods game.
STAR Protoc.

Alder/May Lab Collaboration:
Peptide Power: Mechanistic Insights into the Effect of Mitochondria-Targeted Tetrapeptides on Membrane Electrostatics from Molecular Simulations
Mol Pharm

Klassen Lab:
Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics
Nature

Alexandrescu Lab:
Solution NMR assignments and structure for the dimeric kinesin neck domain
Biol NMR Assign

Representative Publications