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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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January 27, 2021Bonnie Bassler and Michael Silverman will be awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for their ground-breaking discoveries concerning bacterial quorum sensing.Department Announcement -
January 21, 2021Emeritus 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, 2021To 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 -
November 30, 2020Molecular Biology grad student Alexis Cowan, in the lab of Chemistry’s Joshua Rabinowitz, helped complete the first comprehensive, quantitative mapping of human cardiac fuel use, reporting that the heart preferentially and voraciously consumes fatty acids.Research -
November 28, 2020A team at Princeton University has discovered the physics behind how certain rod-shaped bacteria, which align in patterns like those on fingerprint whorls and liquid crystal displays, build the layers of these fruiting bodies. The study was published online in Nature Physics.Research -
November 23, 2020Shan He, Martin Jonikas, and colleagues have discovered how Rubisco holoenzymes assemble to form the algal pyrenoid, an organelle that mediates the incorporation of carbon dioxide into sugars. The study was published July 23, 2020 in the journal Nature Plants.Research -
November 23, 2020The COVID-19 testing laboratory, housed in Princeton’s Department of Molecular Biology, is part of the University’s comprehensive testing program. The testing lab is an integral part of the University’s overall health and safety measures.Department Announcement -
November 16, 2020The news site recognized Myhrvold's interest in Cas13 and his plan to continue developing CRISPR-based technologies at Princeton.Department Announcement -
November 11, 2020Researchers have discovered that assembly of the algal pyrenoid, a structure that mediates the incorporation of carbon dioxide into sugars, is guided by the presence of a particular protein sequence, or motif. The study appears November 11, 2020 in the open-access journal Science Advances.Research -
November 2, 2020State-of-the-art imaging technologies are used in research programs across the Department of Molecular Biology and beyond. See how principal investigators Jared Toettcher, Danelle Devenport, Nieng Yan and Department Chair Bonnie Bassler are using these core-facility imaging resources to advance knowledge.Research -
October 27, 2020Lena Basta, a Molecular Biology graduate student in the Devenport Lab, was awarded the Thomas J. Silhavy Graduate Advocacy Prize for 2020 at the annual departmental retreat. The Award is for the student who has shown outstanding dedication and service to the Graduate Program in Molecular Biology.Department Announcement -
October 27, 2020Nicole Aiello and Brian Mahon were recognized with the Postdoc Service Award at the 2020 MOL retreat for outstanding dedication to the Postdoc program in the Department of Molecular Biology.Department Announcement -
October 27, 2020MOL Postdoc Matt Johnson and graduate student Cora Betsinger were honored at the department retreat for their excellence in teaching.Department Announcement -
October 27, 2020Eliza Prangley (GS) and Rachel Kaletsky (Postdoc) were honored for giving the best research talks at the MOL retreat.Department Announcement -
October 22, 2020Researchers in the lab of Thomas Silhavy have identified a new bacterial protein that assists in delivering components to the outer membrane of the Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli.Research