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January 21, 2021Schüpbach Awarded AAAS Amory Prize
Emeritus Professor Gertrud M. Schüpbach has been awarded the 2020 Francis Amory Prize in Reproductive Medicine and Reproductive Physiology by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Register here to attend virtual prize ceremony on February 3 at 1 pm EST.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
January 20, 2021Alexander Ploss among Princeton researchers studying the impacts of COVID-19
To make SARS-CoV-2 safer for handling in the laboratory, Alexander Ploss, associate professor of molecular biology, and his team are developing a less virulent version of the virus.Research
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September 21, 2020When the pandemic shut down almost all on-campus research, students who had arranged in-person summer research internships needed to pivot quickly. Jonathan Wang ’21 spent his summer tracking how housing insecurity affects treatment outcomes for people affected by opioid addiction.Research -
September 17, 2020“Do not erase.” “Recycle me.” “Free to a good home.” Inside our cells, a sophisticated recycling system uses its own enzymatic signs to flag certain cells for destruction — and a different set of enzymes can remove those flags.Research -
September 14, 2020The Department of Molecular Biology shipped laboratory kits to students around the world so they could conduct “at-home” experiments as part of their courses, and music and arts courses have been transformed so students can still get hands-on, practical experiences.Department Announcement -
September 14, 2020In their paper appearing in the journal eLife, Princeton researchers Amir Erez, Jaime Lopez, Ned Wingreen and colleagues use mathematical modeling to explore how species diversity in a bacterial community is affected when the nutrients the microbes depend upon are only seasonally available.Research -
September 9, 2020Princeton researchers Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca Moore, Coleen Murphy and colleagues have discovered that the microscopic roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans recognizes a small RNA made by a pathogenic bacterium, and uses that RNA to convey learned avoidance of the bacterium to offspring.Research -
September 8, 2020Mohamed Abou Donia received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for demonstrating the potential of the human microbiome as a source of novel drugs and uncovering the basis of microbiome-driven drug metabolism.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
August 24, 2020Nieng Yan, the Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology, will be given the Florence R. Sabin Award for Research Excellence by Graduate Women in Science (GWIS). Dr. Yan is interviewed in this month's GWIS newsletter.Department Announcement -
August 19, 2020Researchers at Princeton University’s Department of Molecular Biology and the Bendheim-Thomas Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) will receive a $9-million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHBLI) to conduct an innovative study on heart health, genetics, and social determinants among vulnerable children in 12 cities across the United States.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
August 13, 2020A Princeton team, including Jared Toettcher and Agnieszja Gil, has developed a class of light-switchable, highly adaptable molecular tools with new capabilities to control cellular activities.Research -
August 4, 2020Murphy is among 22 researchers selected to receive grant funding to advance the field of reproductive aging from the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
July 31, 2020Congratulations to Jorge Moreno, a graduate student in the lab of Ricardo Mallarino, for being named an HHMI Gilliam Fellow. The Fellowship supports diversity in science.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
July 30, 2020This summer, through her involvement in the American Physician Scientist Association, Briana Macedo '22 started the organization's first Virtual Summer Research Program.Department Announcement -
July 29, 2020MOL Associate Professor Mohamed Donia is one of 7 winners of the 2020 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Prize. He will study gut microbiome-derived small molecules and their role in the etiology of colorectal cancer.Department Announcement -
July 23, 2020Princeton University researchers explored how patterns of protein activity direct fly embryonic development by using “optogenetic” techniques to rapidly and precisely turn Ras/Erk signaling on and off.Research -
July 16, 2020Dr. Donna Armentano *86, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo '87 and Dr. Owen Garrick '90 were appointed to the Department of Molecular Biology Advisory Council. The Council meets periodically to review the programmatic aspects of the Department as well as provides strategic direction.Department Announcement