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June 20, 2017Beltran named to Harold W. Dodds Fellowship
Pierre Jean Beltran, a graduate student in the Cristea lab in Molecular Biology, is the recipient of the Harold W. Dodds Fellowship, which was established in 1957 in honor of Princeton's 15th president. His research is about understanding how viruses remodel organelles to facilitate viral replication and spread.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
June 19, 2017Levine elected to EMBO for excellence in life sciences
Michael Levine, the Anthony B. Evnin ’62 Professor in Genomics and Professor of Molecular Biology, is one of 65 outstanding life scientists elected June 16 to membership of EMBO.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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June 16, 2017Molecular Biology graduate student Krystal Lum, a member of the Crista lab, was awarded the NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) for her project "Briding virology with proteomics to deifne cell immune signaling upon infection."
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June 15, 2017MOL BIO Assistant Professor Mohamed Abou Donia was chosen as a 2017 Pew Scholar. The Donia lab researches how chemicals produced by the bacteria in our body (the human microbiome) can be used to treat human diseases.
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May 22, 2017Researchers in the Kang lab have identified a small RNA molecule that helps maintain the activity of stem cells in both healthy and cancerous breast tissue.
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May 15, 2017A new study in the Petry lab has revealed insights into how new microtubules branch from the sides of existing ones.
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May 11, 2017Shirley M. Tilghman is teaching a new freshman seminar this semester called "What makes a great experiment?"
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May 9, 2017Former Molecular Biology graduate student and member of the Zakian lab Wai-Hong Tham has been named an International Research Scholar by HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,who sponsor this award for early-career scientists poised to advance biomedical research across the globe.
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April 4, 2017Researchers in the Gavis lab at Princeton University and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have discovered how a fruit fly protein binds and regulates two different types of RNA target sequence. The study may help explain how various RNA-binding proteins, many of which are implicated in cancer and neurodegenerative disease, perform so many different functions in the cell.
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March 13, 2017
Lynn Enquist, Jim Sturm and Naveen Verma are recipients of a Fall Innovation Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the J. Blair Pyne Fund. The award is for $171,000 for their proposal to develop a "three dimensional electronic neural interface."
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March 3, 2017Thomas Bartlett, a graduate student in the Gitai lab, has been selected for a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award.
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February 22, 2017Jared Toettcher, assistant professor of Molecular Biology, is part of a team that was selected to receive support from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund
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February 6, 2017The Shvartsman, Burdine and Schüpbach labs collaborated on a study that provides new insights into RASopathies, genetic disorders that affect approximately one child out of 1,000.
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February 2, 2017A study in the Ploss lab was selected by the editors of Virology for the Highlights section of their website's blog. The article descibes the development of humanized mice for the study of hepatitis B.
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February 1, 2017Researchers at Princeton found that the nucleolus, a cellular organelle involved in RNA synthesis, assembles in part through the passive process of phase separation – the same type of process that causes oil to separate from water.
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January 25, 2017A number of donors and pharmaceutical companies have raised $500 million to support a partnership aimed at controlling future global epidemics.
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January 17, 2017The Ploss lab reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that when the hepatitis E virus infects a cell, it makes proteins that poke holes in the cell's membrane to allow newly made virus particles to escape and spread.
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