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September 6, 2018Bonnie Bassler receives Schering Prize
Schering Stiftung announced Monday, Sept. 3, that they were awarding the 2018 Ernst Schering Prize to Molecular Biology Chair Bonnie Bassler for her pioneering work on bacterial quorum sensing.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
August 16, 2018Enquist Lab researchers uncover new details of rabies virus movement
Enquist lab members find neuron-invading viruses can be blocked by a drug commonly used to treat amoebic dysentery.Research
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October 8, 2015Lords of the fruit flies: What goes into fruit fly courtship? It might seem like an odd question, but understanding its neural underpinnings--and studying the male-female interactions at the milliscale level--could help us better understand the complexities of social behaviorGrants, Fellowships and Awards
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October 8, 2015Princeton University faculty members Zemer Gitai, professor of molecular biology, and ColeenZemer Gitai Murphy, professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, are among 13 researchers nationwide to receive 2015 Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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October 7, 2015Zhuo (Rory) Li, a graduate student in the Kang lab, was awarded the HHMI International Student Research Fellowship.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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October 7, 2015Minhong Shen, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kang laboratory, was awarded the NJCCR fellowship for his research focusing on the role of MTDH in breast cancer.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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September 1, 2015Antoni Celià-Terrasa, a postdoctoral fellow in the Kang lab, was awarded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation postdoctoral fellowship award for his research proposal entitled "Ubiquitin-dependent regulation of EMT in breast cancer metastasis".Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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August 28, 2015Mark Esposito, a graduate student in the Kang lab was awarded the pre-doctoral F31 fellowship for his research proposal entitled Exploration of the dynamics of E-selectin interaction in breast cancer metastasis.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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July 31, 2015Raymundo Alfaro-Aco, a second year graduate student in the Petry lab, was awarded the first HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study for our department. His research aims to elucidate how microtubules are generated from microtubule organizing centers.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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July 29, 2015Adel Mahmoud's interview with Ed Silverman from The Wall Street Journal.There may be numerous infectious diseases that regularly claim untold numbers of lives around the world, but there are few vaccine candidates for combating these ailments...Research
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July 23, 2015The Department of Molecular Biology is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Nikon Center of Excellence, a cutting-edge microscopy facility that is mutually beneficial for both the University and Nikon.Department Announcement
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July 22, 2015Molecular Biology Assistant Professor Sabine Petry has been awarded the Humboldt-Princeton Strategic Partnership, along with Assistant Professor Clifford Brangwynne, Chemical and Biological Engineering and Simone B. Reber, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Quantitative Biology.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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July 13, 2015As of July 1, 2015, Henry L. Hillman professor of molecular biology and professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University Lynn Enquist, will become president of the American Society for Microbiology.Department Announcement
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July 6, 2015Bonnie L. Bassler, PhD, has been chosen to receive the FASEB 2016 Excellence in Science Award. The award recognizes women whose outstanding career achievements in biological science have contributed significantly to further our understanding of a particular discipline by excellence in research.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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June 26, 2015From institutions across the Northeast, researchers and science instructors gathered at Princeton University the week of June 14 to explore techniques designed to better engage science students and attract students who are apprehensive about entering a laboratory.Department Announcement
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June 24, 2015The Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation, which supports early stage investigators engaged in biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of disease, has named Ileana Cristea as a 2015 Mallinckrodt Scholar.Grants, Fellowships and Awards
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June 19, 2015Thomas J. Pohl, a postdoctoral fellow in the Zakian lab, was awarded the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project “The Role of G-Quadruplex Sequences in Ribosomal DNA Transcription and Ribosome Biogenesis or Function”.Grants, Fellowships and Awards