Jason Lieb, Professor in Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, will join the faculty July 1, 2013, and will serve as director of the institute. His research focuses on investigating how information is coded and used in genomes, specifically targeting areas that regulate chromosomal functions such as transcription, DNA replication and repair, recombination, and chromosome segregation.

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announces the election of 52 outstanding researchers in life sciences. Bonnie Bassler, HHMI Investigator and Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, has been elected as one of the nine new associate members.