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March 16, 2023Donia and Ploss awarded Princeton accelerator funding
Six new innovations with potential to benefit society will receive university funding to aid in the transition from early-stage research into real-world products and services. Two of the six projects awarded in 2022 are to faculty in the Department of Molecular Biology.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
March 1, 2023Ploss Lab researchers find a path toward Hep E treatment
In a paper published Feb. 28 in the journal eLife, a team of researchers headed by Alexander Ploss settle a debate about a key protein in hepatitis E (Hep E), which could open the way to developing treatments for a tiny virus that poses an outsized threat to public health around the globe.Research
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November 24, 2021In April 2020, Myhrvold's paper was published in Nature introducing the revolutionary CARMEN system that simultaneously tests for the 170 most prevalent human-infecting viruses — including the then-novel coronavirus. Only 39 of those viruses had FDA-approved diagnostic tests.Research -
November 21, 2021Babu, of Scottsdale, Arizona, is concentrating in molecular biology and is also pursuing a certificate in gender and sexuality studies. At Oxford, he will pursue an MSc Comparative Social Policy and MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
November 18, 2021As the dedicated Research Software Engineer for Princeton's Department of Molecular Biology, Biswas helps scientists get the most out of their datasets. "They're trying to tell a biological story," he says, "but they need some analytics tools. I help them develop those tools."Department Announcement -
November 3, 2021The Gitai, Rabinowitz, and Wuhr labs have collaborated with a number of labs in the area to publish two independent research articles on mammalian metabolism, both available online and to be printed in Cell Systems.Research -
November 3, 2021Eric Franklin (left) and Vanessa Gonzalez (right) won awards for their outstanding contributions to the department's teaching mission during the past year.Department Announcement -
November 3, 2021Olivia Duddy of the Bassler Lab won the prestigious Thomas J. Silhavy Award at this year's Molecular Biology Retreat. Xiao Fan of the Yan lab was recognized for outstanding service as a Postdoc.Department Announcement -
October 20, 2021Research from the laboratory of MOL/LSI's Britt Adamson, conducted together with collaborators led by Jonathan Weissman at MIT and Editas Medicine, details a novel method called Repair-seq that reveals how genome editing tools workResearch -
October 19, 2021MOL graduate student Esmat Hegazi (Muir lab) and postdoctoral researcher Rebecca Kim-Yip (Toettcher and Posfai labs) are the latest department members to become NJ ACTS TL1 Fellows. They will receive a year of stipend and tuition support in this translational science training program.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
October 5, 2021Professors Mohamed Abou Donia, Zemer Gitai and Coleen Murphy (joint with Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics) are 2021 recipients of the NIH's High-Risk High-Reward research grants. Donia and Gitai received a Transformative Research Award, and Murphy received both a Pioneer Award and a Transformative Research Award.Research -
September 30, 2021John F Brooks II was appointed Assistant Professor in Molecular Biology starting January, 2022. Brooks studies the impact of the circadian rhythm on the gut microbiome.Department Announcement -
September 30, 2021The Molecular Biology Outreach Program (MBOP, formerly known as GMOP), is back in actio. We’ve changed our name from GMOP to MBOP and re-branded our outreach approach to educate a more diverse group of New Jerseyans across the state. We have a new logo and a new website.Department Announcement -
September 27, 2021Structural biologist John R Jimah will be an Assistant Professor in Molecular Biology starting January 2022. Jimah's research focuses on membrane remodeling in human cells and parasites.Department Announcement -
September 24, 2021Michelle Chan wants to know: how does a cell change its fate? Chan, who started her appointment with the Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute in September of 2020, trained as a computational biologist.Research -
September 23, 2021Martin Jonikas, an associate professor in Molecular Biology, is one of 33 new investigators from 21 institutions named by HHMI on Sept. 23, selected from more than 800 eligible applicants. Each new investigator will receive about $9 million over a seven-year termGrants, Fellowships and Awards -
September 13, 2021Bisht, a new postdoc in the te Velthuis lab, published her opinion piece in Science Magazine: "Don’t make early career researchers ‘ghost authors.’ Give us the credit we deserve"Department Announcement