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August 12, 2019Martin Jonikas receives new grant to boost crop yields by introducing an algal organelle into plants
Martin Jonikas, Assistant Professor in Princeton’s Department of Molecular Biology, is collaborating with Alistair McCormick from the University of Edinburgh, Luke Mackinder from the University of York and Howard Griffiths from Cambridge University on a novel approach to boost crop productivity.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
August 12, 2019Entrepreneurship Club students help transfer Princeton biotech research to business ventures
A new sub-team of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club named Alimtas BioVentures capped a year of unprecedented entrepreneurial work at the University.Department Announcement
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May 24, 2019A new paper from Betsy Hart of the Silhavy lab and members of the Wühr lab reveals how two components, known as BamB and BamE, coordinate the b-barrel assembly machine's activity to prevent it from becoming jammed.Research -
May 13, 2019An all-Princeton research team has identified bacteria that can detect the speed of flowing fluids.Research -
May 10, 2019Small differences in a liver cell protein have significant impacts on hepatitis C virus replication in mice and humans, findings that could facilitate the development of a mouse model of the infection. The report, led by researchers in the Ploss Lab, was published today in the journal eLIFE.Research -
May 1, 2019Professor Nieng Yan is among four Princeton faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
April 19, 2019Josh Bilenker MD '94 and Jake Van Naarden '06 engaged with students and postdocs as they recounted the genesis of Loxo OncologyDepartment Announcement -
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April 17, 2019Molecular Biology Professor Virginia Zakian is one of six Princeton faculty members elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
April 15, 2019A postdoc in the lab of Ricardo Mallarino, Sha Li has been named one of Princeton's first Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
April 15, 2019Kang Lab researchers have discovered a factor that promotes the spread of cancers to bone, opening the way toward treatments that could mitigate cancer’s ability to colonize bone. The study by Mark Esposito, Yibin Kang and colleagues appears in the April 15 issue of Nature Cell Biology.Research -
April 1, 2019Mallarino was selected for his project “How to Build a Gliding Mammal: Deciphering the Positional Regulatory Code of Mammalian Skin.” His lab studies two mammal models, striped rodents and gliding mammals, to understand how genes encode for skin and hair pigmentation and gliding mechanisms.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
March 25, 2019The American Association for Cancer Research announced today that Eric Wieschaus, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is one of 22 newly elected fellows of the AACR Academy.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
March 18, 2019William Jacobs, professor of biology, emeritus, and a renowned botanist who studied and explained the hormonal basis of plant development, died March 3 in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 99.Department Announcement -
March 18, 2019It takes thousands of genes to build the photosynthetic machinery that plants need to harness sunlight for growth. And yet, researchers don’t know exactly how these genes work.Research -
March 12, 2019T cells are like the special ops forces of the immune system, detecting and killing infected cells. When a new threat is detected, the cells ramp up from just a few sentry cells to a full platoon. But how does the immune system make just the right amount of T cells, when the starting populations of T cells vary?Research -
March 12, 2019A post for Microsoft’s Innovation Stories blog describes the Station B platform, which researchers from Princeton will test to investigate the formation of biofilms — surface-associated communities of bacteria that are the leading cause of microbial infection worldwide.Research