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- Mala Murthy Wins 2012 McKnight Award
  04-26-2012
  Mala Murthy, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, is one of seven recipients of the 2012 McKnight Scholar Award. This award has been given annually since…
- Bonnie Bassler elected to the American Philosophical Society
  04-25-2012
  The American Philosophical Society (APS ) announces the election of 35 new members in its April 2012 meeting. Bonnie Bassler, HHMI Investigator and Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, has been elec…
- Professor Bonnie Bassler Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
  04-20-2012
  Credit: The Royal Society Bonnie Bassler has made seminal studies on the process of cell-cell signaling in bacteria that have revolutionised the study of microbiology. Her work has transformed the w…
- AACR Honors Yibin Kang, Ph.D., With Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research
  03-20-2012
  AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH The American Association for Cancer Research will recognize Yibin Kang with the 32nd Annual AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research at…
- Faculty Award: Botstein named 2012 Dan David Prize Laureate
  03-01-2012
  Courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications David Botstein, Princeton's Anthony B. Evnin '62 Professor of Genomics, Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of the Lewis-Sigler I…
- Renowned Princeton biologist Malcolm Steinberg dies
  02-23-2012
  Courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications | by Morgan kelly Princeton University professor emeritus Malcolm Steinberg, a molecular biologist well known for his influential hypothe…
- Benjamin Garcia Awarded 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship
  02-15-2012
  Benjamin Garcia, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, has been named a 2012 Sloan Fellow, in the field of molecular biology. The fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars whos…
- Ileana Cristea Receives 2011 Early Career Award in Mass Spectrometry
  02-06-2012
  Ileana Cristea is a recipient of the Early Career Award in Mass Spectrometry from the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes a scientist within the greater New Jersey region that has shown ex…
- Wingreen and Storey Elected to AAAS
  01-05-2012
  Congratulations to Professors Ned Wingreen and John Storey. They were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in November 2011. New Fellows will be recognized for the…
- Faculty Award: Bassler to receive L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award
  11-10-2011
  Courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications | by Kelly Morgan Princeton University professor Bonnie Bassler was among five scientists worldwide selected to receive the 2012 F…
- Obama to nominate Princeton's Bassler for National Science Board
  10-21-2011
  Courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications President Barack Obama will nominate Princeton University molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler to serve as a member of the National Science Bo…
- Professor Rosenberg receives 2011 American Society of Human Genetics' prestigious McKusick Leadership Award
  10-19-2011
  Congratulations to Professor Rosenberg for being selected as the 2011 recipient of the American Society of Human Genetics’ prestigious McKusick Leadership Award for “his exemplary and inspiring contri…
- Benjamin Garcia Honored at White House with Early Career Award
  09-26-2011
  Molecular Biology Assistant Professor Benjamin Garcia was among 94 researchers honored by President Obama as a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. This is the…
- ASM Announces Appointment of Thomas Silhavy as New Editor in Chief of the Journal of Bacteriology
  09-09-2011
  The American Society for Microbiology is honored to announce that Dr. Thomas J. Silhavy, the Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, has been appointed the n…
- New Faculty: Alexei Korennykh
  09-01-2011
  Dr. Alexei Korennykh is interested in understanding cellular signaling pathways at the level of individual receptors and their interactions. Dr. Korennykh received his BS degree in Chemistry at M…
- New Faculty: Danelle Devenport
  09-01-2011
  Danelle Devenport's research focuses on how cells assemble into highly ordered structures to produce functional organs. Currently, she studies how directional signals instruct cells to organize cellul…
- Murthy Awarded 2011 HFSP Young Investigator Research Grant
  05-11-2011
  Mala Murthy, assistant professor in PNI and Molecular Biology, is a recipient of a 2011 HFSP (Human Frontiers Science Program) Young Investigator research grant. These competitive research grants are…
- Tom Shenk Receives Stanford Lifetime Achievement Award
  05-05-2011
  Congratulations to Thomas E. Shenk, Elkins Professor of Molecular Biology, for being one of two recipients of the Arthur Kornberg and Paul Berg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences. This…
- Vilcek Foundation Recognizes Yibin Kang
  02-22-2011
  Yibin Kang was chosen by the Vilcek Foundation to receive its 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. The Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, which includes a ,000 cash award a…
- Assistant Professor Awarded National Science Foundation's CAREER Award
  02-10-2011
  Mala Murthy, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, is a recent recipient of the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award for her proposal ent…
- Bassler Wins Lounsbery Award
  02-03-2011
  The National Academy of Sciences announced that Bonnie L. Bassler is the recipient of the Richard Lounsbery Award. Bassler is being honored for her pioneering discoveries of the universal use of chemi…
- Garcia Wins Chemical Society Early Career Award
  01-31-2011
  Assistant Professor Ben Garcia has been named the recipient of the 2010 New Jersey American Chemical Society Early Career Award in Mass Spectrometry. The Award recognizes a scientist who lives in the…
- MolBio Professors Receive Agilent Award
  12-21-2010
  Agilent Technologies has awarded David Botstein, Josh Rabinowitz, Leonid Kruglyak and Ben Garcia an Agilent Thought Leader Award for their work in systems biology. The three-year award from the Agi…
- Lynn Enquist Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  12-06-2010
  Please see the article on the Princeton Page.…
- Ben Garcia Named Emerging Investigator
  09-30-2010
  Ben Garcia, Assistant Professor has been named an Emerging Investigator by the Molecular BioSystems journal. According to the journal, emerging investigators came highly-recommended as scientists at a…
- Ben Garcia-2010 NIH Director's New Innovator Award
  09-30-2010
  Ben Garcia, assistant professor has been named one of 50 scientists nationwide to receive a 2010 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award, a program to support young scientis…
- Berry Wins McKnight Award
  08-02-2010
  Michael Berry II was one of four scientists selected to receive a 2010 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards. The awards have been given annually since 1999 to advance the range of…
- Coleen Murphy Awarded Glenn Award
  06-18-2010
  Coleen Murphy <http://www.molbio1.princeton.edu/labs/murphy/, Assistant Professor and member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute, has been awarded the Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Ag…
- Princeton awarded module.5 million for Biology Education
  05-21-2010
  By Nick DeUlio Princeton has been awarded module.5 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to help support the University's efforts to improve education in the biological sciences. The…
- Lynn Enquist Elected to the AAAS
  05-14-2010
  Congratulations to Lynn Enquist, Henry L. Hillman Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is among nearly 230 leaders in v…
- Sam Wang Joins Rita Allen Foundation Board
  05-14-2010
  The Rita Allen Foundation announced this week that Dr. Sam Wang has been appointed to its Board of Directors. "Dr. Wang is an outstanding addition to our organization,” said Rita Allen Foundation Boar…
- Ben Garcia-NSF Career Award
  04-07-2010
  Ben Garcia, an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER award. According to NSF, the NSF CAREER award is a program "that offers the Nat…
- Botstein wins 0K prize
  03-11-2010
  By Marissa Lee Associate Editor for News Molecular biology professor David Botstein, director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, was named one of three recipients of the annua…
- Mark Rose and Tom Shenk named AAAS Fellows
  12-18-2009
  The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. This year, Mark Rose and Tom Shenk were among the…
- Garcia Honored for Mass Spec Research
  07-01-2009
  Ben Garcia, an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, is one of two recipients of a 2009 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research award for his project “A Proteomic Approach for Understandin…
- Hopfield Wins IEEE Rosenblatt Award
  05-12-2009
  Professor John Hopfield has been awarded the 2009 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award. Sponsored the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement…
- Cristea, Brody win Human Frontier Science Program Awards
  03-25-2009
  Ileana Cristea was awarded a 2009 Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator Grant for the project “A hybrid approach to revealing intermediate structures of Herpes Simplex Virus during infecti…
- Bassler earns Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
  02-05-2009
  Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton, will receive the eighth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences. Bassler has been selected for her pioneering investigation…
- Wang's Book Wins AAAS Prize
  01-09-2009
  Professor Sam Wang's book, Welcome to Your Brain (with Sandra Aamodt, Bloomsbury, 2008), is a recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in S…
- Stock named AAAS Fellow
  01-05-2009
  Congratulations to Professor Jeffry Stock, who in November, was elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Council as one of 486 Fellows of AAAS. These individuals will be reco…
- Thomas Silhavy Elected to EMBO
  10-08-2008
  Congratulations to Tom Silhavy, Professor of Molecular Biology, for his election to membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization. Membership is a life-long honor. Leading scientists are n…
- Ileana Cristea Receives Prestigious New Avant-Garde Award for Innovative HIV/AIDS Research
  09-08-2008
  The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, just announced the first three recipients of its new Avant-Garde Award. This award is intended to stimulate high…
- Princeton faculty win prestigious NIH awards
  09-01-2008
  Four Princeton faculty members have been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health for work deemed "high impact" by the federal medical research agency.Three of the NIH awards will enable…
- Coleen Murphy Receives Keck Award
  07-25-2008
  Coleen Murphy, an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics is one of five recipients of a 2008 Keck Young Scholars in Medical Research…
- Tavazoie and Landweber Named Blavatnik Finalists
  07-02-2008
  The New York Academy of Sciences announced the finalists of the 2008 New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. Congratulations to Saeed Tavazoie, Associate Professor of Molec…
- Coleen Murphy receives ASCB Junior Career Award
  06-20-2008
  Coleen Murphy, an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics is the recipient of an American Society of Cell Biology Women in Cell Biolo…
- Bonnie Bassler Recognized for Outstanding Teaching
  06-04-2008
  Four Princeton faculty members received President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies June 3. They are: Bonnie Bassler, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology; Pablo D…
- Four Princeton Researchers Named HHMI Investigators
  05-28-2008
  The Howard Hughes Medical Institute yesterday named 56 of the nation's most creative biomedical scientists to be given the opportunity to tackle their most ambitious, risky research plans, as they bec…
- Coleen Murphy awarded McKnight Scholar Award
  05-21-2008
  Coleen Murphy, an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics is the recipient of a McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience Scholar Awar…
- New MolBio Faculty Ben Garcia Receives ACS Award
  01-28-2008
  The Younger Chemists Committee (YCC) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has selected new faculty member Ben Garcia for a Leadership Development Award. The award is designed to support participatio…
- Murphy Wins March of Dimes Award
  01-08-2008
  Coleen Murphy, an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics has been awarded a March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Award. Th…
- Genetics Society of America Awards Novitsky Medal to Tom Silhavy
  01-07-2008
  Congratulations to Tom Silhavy for winning the first annual Novitski Medal from the Genetics Society of America, to be bestowed upon him at the January 7 meeting in San Diego. The Novitski Prize, n…
- Kruglyak and Schüpbach selected as AAAS fellows
  02-10-2006
  The American Association for the Advancement of Science has selected Leonid Kruglyak and Gertrud Schüpbach as fellows in recognition of their "efforts toward advancing science applications that are de…
- Manuel Llinás Named NIH Innovative New Investigator
  02-10-2006
  NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., today announced a special program to fund new investigators who propose highly innovative research projects that could have an exceptionally great impact on biome…
- Gitai Awarded Beckman Grant
  02-10-2006
  Assistant Professor Zemer Gitai was recently awarded an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation grant for his proposal: Quantitative Analysis of Cell Biological Dynamics in Bacteria. The award provides …
- Llinás Wins Burroughs Wellcome Award
  02-10-2006
  Congratulations to Manuel Llinás, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, for winning the Burroughs Wellcome Investigators in Pathogenesis of…
- Bassler Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  02-10-2006
  Congratulations to Proessor Bonnie Bassler, who is among the esteemed 203 new Fellows and 24 new Foreign Honorary Members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 30. The 227 scho…
- MolBio Faculty Named to Endowed Professorships
  02-10-2006
  Congratulations to the following Molecular Biology faculty members, who were recently named to endowed professorships. Effective July 1, 2007, Bonnie Bassler is the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biolo…
- Global Health Policy Expert Adel Mahmoud Joins Princeton Faculty
  02-08-2006
  Princeton, NJ – February 5, 2007 - Adel Mahmoud M.D., Ph.D., former president of Merck Vaccines and an expert on disease control in the developing world, has been appointed to the Woodrow Wilson Schoo…
- Tilghman awarded genetics society medal
  02-08-2006
  Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman, a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology, has been awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal. The award is presented annually…
- David Tank Awarded Spencer Medal
  02-07-2006
  Congratulations to Professor David W. Tank, who received the Alden Spencer Award from The Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University on September 29. Professor Winfried Denk of the Ma…
- Coleen Murphy Named Pew Scholar
  02-07-2006
  was named one of fifteen of the nation’s most promising early- to mid-career biomedical researchers for her work on molecular mechanisms governing aging and longevity. The 2006 Pew Scholars in the Bio…
- Coleen Murphy Wins Ellison Award
  02-07-2006
  Coleen Murphy, an Assistant Professor in Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, has been awarded an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars in Aging award. The Ell…
- Bonnie Bassler Elected to The National Academy of Sciences
  02-06-2006
  The Department of Molecular Biology proudly announces the election of Professor Bonnie Bassler to The National Academy of Sciences. The election was held this morning during the business session of th…
- Manuel Llinás Wins Beckman Award
  02-04-2006
  The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awarded Molecular Biology Assistant Professor Manuel Llinás a 4,000 Young Investigator grant for his work, "Identifying key regulators of the Plasmodium fal…
- Coleen Murphy Wins Sloan Fellowship
  02-03-2006
  Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Coleen Murphy was one of six Princeton faculty members to win Sloan fellowships. The Alfred P. Sloan Fo…
- Samuel S.-H. Wang Receives Tenure
  02-02-2006
  The Department is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Sam Wang has received tenure at Princeton University. Sam joined the Department in 2000. He earned his Ph.D. in Neurosciences from Stanford…
- Bassler Wins Lilly Research Award
  02-01-2006
  The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced that Professor Bonnie Bassler will receive the 2006 Eli Lilly and Company Research Award. The Eli Lilly Award is ASM's oldest and most prestig…
- Schupbach Wins SDB Conklin Medal
  02-01-2006
  At its December 15 meeting, the Society for Developmental Biology Board of Directors selected the 2006 Award winners. The E.G. Conklin Medal goes to Professor Trudi Schupbach for her contributions in…
- Yibin Kang Receives DOD Era of Hope Award
  02-01-2006
  Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology Yibin Kang has been awarded a prestigious Era of Hope Scholar Award. The Award is part of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Breast Cancer Research Program,…
- New Faculty Member Carlos Brody
  02-01-2006
  We are pleased to announce that Carlos Brody, Associate Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, will join the Molecular Biology Department as a member of the senior faculty, moving his laboratory…
- Merck Award for Manuel Llinas
  02-01-2006
  The American Society for Microbiology and the American Academy of Microbiology have selected Manuel Llinas as one of two recipients of the 2006 Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award from the American S…
Faculty Research News
- Persisting in a search for new cancer treatment
  05-04-2012
  Molecular biology major Kristan Scott focused his senior thesis on a mutant gene linked not only to colorectal cancer but also to the cancer’s ability to resist chemotherapy. Working with special yeas…
- Who is Bonnie Bassler ? (L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards 2012)
  03-26-2012
- Princeton scientists identify neural activity sequences that help form memory, decision-making
  03-15-2012
  By Catherine Zandonella Princeton University researchers have used a novel virtual reality and brain imaging system to detect a form of neural activity underlying how the brain forms short-term…
- Video feature: Brody studies the ultimate programmable calculator — the brain
  03-15-2012
  by Office of Development Communications Princeton professor Carlos Brody is seeking to understand the mechanisms that control brain cells involved in short-term memory and decision-making.…
- Princeton researchers awarded funds to develop promising technologies
  02-01-2012
  by Catherine Zandonella Five Princeton faculty teams are the new recipients of support from a University fund designed to help propel promising discoveries out of the laboratory into products an…
- Engaging in the enterprise of invention at Princeton
  12-30-2011
  News provided courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications From life-saving drugs to technologies that make people's lives easier, Princeton University researchers continually bring…
- Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos donate million to create center in Princeton Neuroscience Institute
  12-13-2011
  News provided courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications Princeton University alumnus Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, and alumna MacKenzie Bezos, a…
- Bacteria and the power of teamwork
  10-13-2011
  News provided courtesy of Princeton University Office of the Dean for Research How do simple bugs thrive? It's all about quorum-sensing. Tess Shellard, in her winning essay for the Wellcome Trust Sc…
- Gene flux can foretell survival for trauma patients, Princeton study finds
  09-13-2011
  News provided courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications Princeton research reported in the Sept. 13 issue of the journal PLoS Medicine shows for the first time that people recov…
- In the early life of an embryo, a monster lurks
  09-12-2011
  News provided courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications Research based at Princeton University has revealed that newly fertilized cells only narrowly avoid degenerating into fatal c…
- Scientists discover mechanism involved in breast cancer's spread to bone
  06-08-2011
  News provided courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications In a discovery that may lead to a new treatment for breast cancer that has spread to the bone, a Princeton University researc…
- Burdine Research Featured in Princeton News
  12-06-2010
  Burdine Research Featured in Princeton News. "Scientists find gene linked to congenital heart defect."Click here to read article.…
- Coleen Murphy lab featured in NY Times article
  10-20-2010
  Colleen Murphy's work with C. elegans has been featured in a NY Times article on human fertility: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/science/19obworm.html?_r=1&ref=science…
- Coller Lab featured in PLoS & the Princeton Homepage
  10-20-2010
  Hilary Coller Lab: Check out our paper on active metabolism in quiescent fibroblasts on the PLoS Biology website and the article about it on the Princeton Homepage.…
- Enquist and Team Featured in the Princeton News
  06-30-2010
  Funded by a 3,000 National Institutes of Health Challenge Grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Lynn Enquist and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute is leading an effort to use…
- Extending lifespan has mixed effects on learning and memory
  05-20-2010
  5/20/09 - Coleen Murphy [http://www.molbio1.princeton.edu/labs/murphy/], an Assistant Professor of molecular biology and member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute, and her lab have shown that the same mech…
- Professors Coller and Rabinowitz Featured in Princeton News
  02-25-2010
  Hilary Coller and Josh Rabinowitz from Princeton have teamed up with The Cancer Institute of New Jersey to embark on a major new project to unravel the secret lives of cancer cells that go dormant and…
- Hughson Research Featured on Princeton Website
  12-18-2009
  by Hilary Parker The precise distribution of materials within a cell is essential for life, but the way the movements of cellular cargo are choreographed is largely unknown. Taking an unprecedented…
- Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier
  11-18-2009
  Written by Chandra Shekhar A team of Princeton biologists and engineers has dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring an enigmatic set of proteins that influences almost every aspect…
- Coleen Murphy's Groundbreaking Research Featured
  06-26-2009
  Written by Kitta MacPherson / Princeton Weekly Bulletin Coleen Murphy is no daydreamer. Yet, this practical-minded biologist possesses the boldest of visions, one she insists is rooted in solid s…
- Llinás lab malaria research in the news
  02-19-2009
  A team of researchers from Princeton University and the Drexel University College of Medicine has found that the parasite that causes malaria breaks down an important amino acid in its quest to adapt…
- Kang Breast Cancer Research Featured in Princeton News
  01-05-2009
  A team of researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey has identified a long-sought gene that is fatefully switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients,…
- The Scientist Watches Zemer Gitai
  03-03-2008
  The March 2008 issue of The Scientist named Assistant Professor Zemer Gitai as a "scientist to watch." The article, entitled "Modeling Life's Architecture," profiles Zemer's progression from undergrad…
- Landweber Research Featured on New Jersey Network
  01-21-2008
  A group of scientists in Princeton's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has uncovered a new biological mechanism that could provide a clearer window into a cell's inner workings. This mech…
- Murphy Featured in Princeton Alumni Weekly
  12-04-2007
  Coleen Murphy, an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, is the subject of a Breaking Ground column in the November 21, 2007 Prince…
- Wang NY Times Article Sparks Great Public Interest
  11-26-2007
  Professor Sam Wang has co-authored a widely read opinion editorial in the New York Times, "Exercise On The Brain." The article, which was published on Thursday, November 8, links exercise to improved…
- Princeton Breakthrough in Cholera Research
  02-10-2006
  A team of Princeton scientists has discovered a key mechanism in how bacteria communicate with each other, a pivotal breakthrough that could lead to treatments for cholera and other bacterial diseases…
- Llinás brings new approach to age-old mystery of malaria
  02-10-2006
  In what might be one of medicine's oldest puzzles, molecular biologist Manuel Llinás marvels at how little modern researchers know about how the pieces fit together. "Malaria is one of the oldest d…
- Program and Series Honor Adel Mahmoud
  02-10-2006
  The Merck Company Foundation and Princeton University will expand upon a 27-year-old partnership to create the Adel Mahmoud Global Health Scholars Program and Lecture Series in Global Health. Funded b…
- Michael Berry featured in Princeton Weekly Bulletin
  02-10-2006
  Neuroscientist Michael Berry spends much of his time pondering circuits — not the electronic sort that appear on a computer chip, but the biological sort that brain cells form to accomplish the still…
- Scientists find potential 'off-switch' for HIV
  02-08-2006
  While there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, a recent study at Princeton University suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely with the flick…
- Colleen Murphy Featured in The Scientist
  02-08-2006
  This month's issue of The Scientist (Volume 20, Issue 10, page 73) features Assistant Professor Coleen Murphy as a "Scientist to Watch." The article discusses Coleen's work in the lab of Cynthia Kenyo…
- Stem Cell Research
  02-07-2006
  Princeton NJ — Long before “superman” Christopher Reeve’s spinal cord injury and actor Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease fueled the public fervor over regenerative therapies, Princeton scientists w…
- Sensing Chemicals with an Artificial Sniff
  02-04-2006
  When it comes to differentiating chemicals, the nose knows best, according to molecular biologist James Broach. It is a chemical detector par excellence, with 800 receptors working in a multitude of c…
Graduate News
- Liling Wan Wins Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship
  05-15-2012
  Liling Wan, from the Kang Lab, has been awarded the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year.…
- Jenny Stundon Awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
  03-21-2012
  Jenny Stundon, a MD/PhD student in the Zakian Lab, was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for her research proposal Roles of Pif1 family helicases in Genomic Integrity and…
- Charles Miller Awarded the F30 NIH/NRSA Fellowship
  03-02-2012
  Charles Miller, MD/PhD student in the Schwarzbauer lab, was awarded the F30 NIH/NRSA fellowship for his research proposal Mesangial cell matrix deposition in high glucose as a model of diabetic glomer…
- Biology grad programs move needle on diversity
  01-14-2012
  COURTESY OF PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLYPUBLISHED IN THE DECEMBER 14, 2011 ISSUE In the fall of 2007, Liz Johnson, a senior biology major at Spelman College in Atlanta, knew where she wanted to att…
- Symposium enables early-career researchers to reach broad audience
  01-10-2012
  News provided Courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications As interdisciplinary collaborations among Princeton scholars continue to grow, it still can be unusual to hear an art histo…
- Perspectives on grad-student diversity
  12-14-2011
  COURTESY OF PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLYPUBLISHED IN THE DECEMBER 14, 2011 ISSUELiz Johnson GS Liz Johnson is a fourth-year graduate student in molecular biology. She is a former president of the Black G…
- Kellen Olszewski Wins Weintraub Award
  02-16-2011
  Kellen Olszewski, a graduate student in Manuel Llinás' group has been selected to receive a 2011 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchi…
- 2010 Molbio Retreat Photo Gallery
  12-06-2010
  2010 Molbio Retreat Photo Gallery…
- Erandi De Silva (Llinás lab)-2010 Honorific Fellowship
  05-14-2010
  04/09/2011 - Congratulations to Erandi De Silva, a graduate student from the Llinás lab. Erandi has been awarded a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year. Established in…
- Forrest Collman Wins GEN Cryptogram Prize
  02-01-2010
  Forrest Collman, a neuroscience grad student in the Tank Lab, was one of two researchers to have solved GEN’eryptogram Challenge: ELISA REDUXAlong with a Harvard grad student in astronomy, he came…

Other Department News

Jane Gitschier - A Special Event on May 8
04-02-2012
As part of its Book Talk series, the Lewis Science Library will be hosting Prof. Jane Gitschier, author of “Speaking of Genetics : a Collection of Interviews” on Thursday, May 8th at 4:30 p.m. in McDo…

Molecular Biology Newsletter
01-21-2011
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Summer Program Featured in the PACKET
07-27-2010
The Princeton Packet featured an engaging story about our summer program for teachers. Visit their website to read the story.…

Teachers find DNA and inspiration in summer program
07-25-2008
White coats and all, the gene sleuths are at it. On this hot July morning, the researchers are hunched at lab benches in 103 Schultz. Test tubes lean in mounds of ice. Nimble fingers are grasping pipe…

Global Health Symposium
03-26-2008
On Tuesday April 1st, the Molecular Biology department is co-hosting a global health symposium entitled “No Country Left Behind: Transforming Global Health.”&nbs sident Shirley Tilghman and Senator Bi…

CellSlam award goes to Geoff Hunt
01-10-2008
NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni awarded Geoff Hunt an official NIH pin for his performance at CellSlam, the 2007 ASCB “Show Me the Science!” Stand-Up Science Poetry Slam.&nbs en finalists were each a…

Annual Molecular Biology Retreat
02-10-2006
Over 200 faculty members, staff, postdocs, and graduate students descended upon the beautiful Pocono mountains this year to participate in the 23rd annual retreat. Held at the Fernwood Hotel from Sept…

[98].2 Million Awarded for Biology Education
02-06-2006
Princeton has been awarded [98].2 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support the University's efforts to improve education in the biological sciences. The Undergraduate Science E…

Einstein Award for John Hopfield
02-01-2006
Professor John Hopfield has been selected to receive the 2005 Albert Einstein World Award of Science by the World Cultural Council. The award usually is given in recognition of an outstanding contribu…

Levinson *77 to Receive Madison Medal
02-01-2006
Arthur Levinson, president and chief executive officer of Genentech, was selected as the 2006 recipient of one of two of the University's top honors for alumni. Levinson, a 1977 graduate alumnus who i…

Postdoc News

Andrea Giovannucci Awarded the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research Fellowship
04-19-2012
Dr. Andrea Giovannucci, a postdoctoral fellow in the Wang Lab, was awarded the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research fellowship for the research project "A computational study of TBI induced…

Shelby Blythe Awarded the F32 NIH/NRSA Fellowship
03-12-2012
Dr. Shelby Blythe, a postdoctoral fellow in the Wieschaus lab, was awarded the F32 NIH/NRSA fellowship for his research project "Mechanisms for Measuring the Nucleocytoplasmic Ratio in Early Embryogen…

Dmitriy Aronov Awarded the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship
03-05-2012
Dr. Dmitriy Aronov, a postdoctoral fellow in the Tank Lab was awarded the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellowship for his project Mechanisms of hippocampal remapping in rats navigating in virtual real…

Erica Shor Awarded ACS Fellowship
03-02-2012
Dr. Erica Shor, a postdoctoral fellow in the Broach lab, was awarded the ACS fellowship for her research proposal Stress-induced Mutation in a Eukaryote. She has proposed to develop a new type of yeas…

Wai-Leung Ng Awarded K22 Career Award
02-28-2012
Dr. Wai-Leung Ng, a postdoctoral fellow in the Bassler lab, was awarded the K22 career award for this project Signal Transduction in the Major Quorum-Sensing Circuit of Vibrio cholera. Vibrio…

Albert Siryaporn Awarded NIH/NRSA Fellowship
02-28-2012
Albert Siryaporn, a postdoctoral fellow in the Gitai lab, was awarded the NIH/NRSA fellowship for his project Negative Regulation of Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Albert is interested in…

Nicole Gudleski Awarded the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship
01-06-2012
Dr. Nicole Gudleski, a postdoctoral fellow in the Shenk laboratory, was awarded the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship for the project "Probing the surface of HCMV infected cells for b…

Anisa Ismail Awarded the NIH/NRSA Fellowship
01-06-2012
Dr. Anisa Ismail, a postdoctoral fellow in the Bassler lab, was awarded the NIH/NRSA fellowship for her project "Quorum sensing in the commensal bacterium Bacteroides fragilis." The intestinal epithel…

Cyrille Girardin Awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship
07-22-2011
Cyrille Girardin, a new postdoctoral fellow in Professor Mala Murthy's lab, was recently awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship. This is one of the most distinguished European fellowships, and allows indivi…

Olivier Mauti Receives NJ Commission on Spinal Cord Research Fellowship
07-12-2011
Dr. Olivier Mauti, a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Eggenschwiler laboratory was awarded the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research Fellowship for his research project entitled "Investigation…

Zheng Receives Komen Fellowship
06-29-2011
Dr. Hanqiu Zheng, a postdoctoral fellow in Kang lab, was awarded a Susan Komen postdoctoral fellowship. This three-year fellowship will support his research proposal to understand the role of a classi…

Rumela Chakrabarti of the Kang Lab Receives BCRP Postdoctoral Award
06-29-2011
Dr. Rumela Chakrabarti of the Kang Lab receives BCRP Postdoctoral Award. The BCRP Postdoctoral Award mechanism was first offered in FY93. Since that time, 1,586 Postdoctoral (including Fellowship and…

Szpara Wins NIAID Research Scholar Development Award
06-15-2011
Congratulations to Moriah Szpara, a postdoctoral fellow in Enquist lab. Moriah was awarded the prestigious NIAID Research Scholar Development Award (K22). The purpose of this program is to increase an…

Engel Awarded Pew Fellowship
06-13-2011
Esteban Engel, a postdoctoral fellow in Enquist lab, was awarded the first PEW postdoctoral fellowship award for our Department. The Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences suppo…

Joana Santos Awarded an EMBO Long-Term post-doctoral Fellowship
06-08-2011
Joana Santos, a post-doctoral fellow in the Llinás lab, was awarded a fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).& This prestigious two-year award supports post-doctoral resear…

Andrew Womack Wins AAAS Congressional Fellowship
03-18-2011
Congratulations to Andy Womack, a Postdoc in the Shenk Lab, for this prestigious honor. The AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows are selected in from among outstanding early, mid and sen…

Björn Kafsack Awarded Damon Runyon Cancer Institute fellowship
11-24-2009
Björn F.C. Kafsack, a post-doctoral fellow in the Llinás lab, was awarded a fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Institute.&n his three-year award will fund his proposal titled "Density-Dependent A…

Posdoc Yu Awarded AHA Fellowship
07-01-2009
I-Mei Yu, a postdoctoral fellow in Fred Hughson’saboratory, was awarded an American Heart Association Fellowship for her project ‘Structural and Functional Studies of Dsl1p Complex Interactions with…

Van Kessel Awarded Fellowship
05-28-2009
Julia C. Van Kessel, a postdoctoral fellow in Bonnie Bassler's laboratory, was awarded an NIH/NRSA fellowship for her project ‘Investigating small RNA control of quorum sensing.’&nbs goals of this pr…

NJCCR fellowships
04-17-2009
The NJCCR has been one of our regular sponsors of pre- and postdoctoral fellows. This year, Katrin Paeschke from Zakian's lab was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in breast cancer research for her pr…

Di Talia awarded LSRF Fellowship
03-19-2009
Stefano Di Talia, a postdoc in the lab of Eric Wieschaus, was awarded the Life Science Research Foundation fellowship, effective June 2009. This fellowship is sponsored and administered by the Howard…

Webb and McGee of Zakian Lab Win Fellowships
03-19-2009
Jean S. McGee, an MD/PhD student in the Zakian lab, was awarded an NIH/NRSA F30 predoctoral fellowship. The goal of Jean's research is to understand telomerase regulation. Specifically, it will focus…

Paeschke Recognized by Chromosome Research
01-09-2009
Congratulations to Katrin Paeschke, a postdoc in Ginger Zakian's lab, for her second place paper prize in the Chromosome Research contest. Katrin receives a gift certificate for publications from Spri…

Kristina Sinsimer Receives Kirschstein Award
12-04-2008
Kristina Sinsimer, a postdoctoral fellow in the Gavis lab, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for her project "Identification of Drosophila mRNA localization factors". …

Cowles Awarded Kirschstein Funding
10-21-2008
Charles Cowles, a postdoctoral fellow in the Silhavy lab received the Ruth Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the NIH for his project Surface-exposure of lipoproteins in Gram-negative Ba…

Postdoc Beeson Receives Kirschstein Award
10-21-2008
Teresa Beeson, a postdoctoral fellow in Shenk's lab was awarded the three year Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for her project Human Cytomegalovirus Episome Maintenance and Propaga…

Cowles Wins NIH Kirschstein Award
07-14-2008
Kimberly Cowles, a post-doctoral fellow in the Gitai lab, was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the NIH. This award will fund her proposal titled “Subcellular Protein…

Campbell Awarded NSERC Fellowship
07-02-2008
Tracey Campbell, a postdoctoral fellow in Manuel Llinas' laboratory, was awarded the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship for her research propo…

Jaffe Wins AHA Fellowship
06-18-2008
Kim Jaffe, a postdoctoral fellow in Rebecca Burdine's lab was awarded a two year American Heart Association fellowship. She will use zebrafish as her model organism to study vertebrate development. He…

Lyman Awarded ACS Fellowship
06-01-2008
Matt Lyman, a postdoctoral fellow in Lynn Enquist ' s lab, was awarded a three - year American Cancer Society (ACS) fellowship for his project Functional Analysis of Us9, a Regulator of Herpesvirus Sp…

Postdoc Boehm Receives Damon Runyon Cancer Award
12-18-2007
Michelle Boehm, a post-doctoral fellow in the Bassler lab, was awarded a fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Institute. This three-year award will fund her proposal titled “Understanding the mole…

Hargett Awarded Fellowship
02-10-2006
Danna Hargett, a postdoc in the Shenk lab, was awarded the Fellow-Career Development Award of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Her research proposal is titled "Characterization of the HCMV Life Cycl…

10 NJCCR Fellowships awarded to Molecular Biology
02-10-2006
The NJCCR has been one of our most generous sponsors of postdoctoral, pre-doctoral and undergraduate summer fellowships. The Commission promotes original research and talented researchers exploring t…

Geoff Hunt and Ryan Norman awarded NJCSCR Predoctoral Fellowships
02-10-2006
The NJCSCR supports original research projects in the State of New Jersey in the fight against spinal cord injury and diseases. These fellowships will run from June 15, 2007 through June 30, 2009: …

Postdocs Parker and Szpara Awarded NJ Spinal Cord Grant
02-08-2006
The New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research (NJCSCR) awarded more than module.67 million to New Jersey institutions and scientists in the initial round of 2007 spinal cord research grants. These…

Moorman Wins ACS Fellowship
02-08-2006
Nathaniel J. Moorman, a postdoctoral fellow in Shenk's lab, was awarded the American Cancer Society fellowship for his research proposal entitled "Analysis of pUL38 Function During Human Cytomegalovir…

Postdoc Profiled in Nature
02-07-2006
Horacio Frydman, a postdoc in the Wieschaus lab, was profiled in a recent issue of the journal Nature. In a feature called Making The Paper, the journal described the history leading up to Frydman's…

Recent Postdoctoral Fellowship Awardees
02-06-2006
Our postdoctoral fellows have been aggressively applying for various highly competitive fellowships, and we are happy to say that they have been remarkably successful. Yi Luo from Prof. Kang's lab, wa…

Nieng Yan, Shi Lab Postdoc, Wins Science Magazine Award
02-01-2006
Nieng Yan, a former graduate student and current postdoc in the laboratory of Professor Yigong Shi was just awarded a Young Scientist Award from Science Magazine and the American Association for the A…

Undergraduate News

Valcourt ’12 wins Hertz Fellowship
04-04-2012
Pyne Prize winner Jim Valcourt '12 now has another laurel to add to his collection. Valcourt, a molecular biology major from Sterling, Mass., who is also pursuing a certificate in quantitative and com…

Elvin, Valcourt named Pyne Prize winners
02-23-2012
Courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications | by Emily Aronson Princeton seniors Ann-Marie Elvin and James Valcourt have been named co-winners of the University's 2012 Moses Taylor…

Four Awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships
02-23-2012
Courtesy of Princeton University Office of Communications | by Karin Dienst Princeton University seniors Jane Abbottsmith, Daniel Barson, Daniel Strassfeld and Victoria Tobolsky have been awarde…

Trivedi Wins Spirit of Princeton Award
04-27-2011
Nikhil Basu Trivedi, a senior majoring in molecular biology and earning a certificate in finance, has won one of seven Spirit of Princeton Awards, which honors undergraduates at Princeton University f…

Silas Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship
04-26-2011
Congratulations to Molecular Biology major Sukrit Silas for being one of two Princetonians to win a Gates Foundation Cambridge Scholarship. He will study for a master's degree in pathology. After that…

Ethan Ludmir Awarded ASM Undergrad Fellowship
09-11-2009
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Ethan Ludmir from Lynn Enquist's Lab as a 2009 award recipient of the ASM Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship, formerly known as th…

MolBio Undergrads Win Awards at Research Conference
12-06-2007
Helmae Wubneh and Michael Ryan Corces-Zimmerman, both undergraduate seniors, have been honored for the research they presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCM…

ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship Awardees
02-07-2006
WASHINGTON, D.C.--9/20/2006--The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Wendy Liu and Julie Wu from Princeton University as 2006 award recipients of the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellow…

Students gain scientific savvy in popular biology course for humanities majors
02-01-2006
Freshman Emily Miller never thought fulfilling her science requirement would be so much fun: Imagine getting to clone some of your own DNA, replicating part of a Nobel Prize-winning experiment or actu…

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