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December 5, 2019Patel, Burdine, Shvartsman release study: Optical switch illuminates cells' development
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Aleena Patel, a graduate student in chemical and biological engineering. Professors Rebecca Burdine, left, and Stanislav Shvartsman, right, were co-principal investigators on the project.Research -
December 3, 2019Notterman Publishes Results on Shared Reading with Young Children
Shared reading between parents and very young children, including infants, is associated with stronger vocabulary skills for nearly all children by age 3.Research
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October 10, 2017Carly Lay Geronimo, a Molecular Biology graduate student in the Zakian Lab, was awarded the Thomas J. Silhavy Graduate Advocacy Prize for 2017. The Award is for the student who has shown outstanding dedication and service to the Graduate Program in Molecular Biology.Department Announcement -
September 28, 2017MOL BIO faculty member Ileana Cristea was presented with an award by the Human Proteome Organization for "Discovery in Protein Sciences" for her achievements.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
September 21, 2017Two new studies of green algae in the Jonikas and Wingreen labs have revealed new insights into how these organisms siphon carbon dioxide from the air for use in photosynthesis, a key factor in their ability to grow so quickly. Understanding this process may someday help researchers improve the growth rate of crops such as wheat and rice.Research -
August 18, 2017In a paper published last month in PLos Pathogens, researchers in the Bassler lab revealed the existence of a new quorum sensing molecule that increases the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Research -
August 15, 2017Researchers in the Ploss lab have uncovered a critical role for a new immune signaling pathway in controlling infection in Yellow Fever Virus.Research -
August 15, 2017Michael Rale, a graduate student in the Petry lab, has been selected by HHMI as a Gilliam Fellow.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
July 25, 2017Researchers in the Ploss lab have successfully tested a cell-culture system that will allow researches to perform laboratory-based studies of long-term hepatitis B virus infections.Research -
July 18, 2017A new study led by researchers in the Wingreen lab finds that the typical cell’s environment is highly varied in the stiffness or flexibility of the surrounding tissue, and that to gain a meaningful amount of information about its surroundings, the cell must move around and change shape.Research -
July 18, 2017Dan Notterman and colleagues report that the loss of a father has a significant adverse effect on telomeres, the protective nucleoprotein end caps of chromosomes.Research -
July 17, 2017Molecular Biology Assistant Professor Sabine Petry is one of three faculty to receive 2017-2018 funding from the renewed strategic partnership of Princeton with Humboldt University in Berlin.Research -
July 7, 2017Dr. Dan Notterman and graduate student Sarah James used a database to show that children who sleep less have shorter telomeres.Research -
June 20, 2017Pierre Jean Beltran, a graduate student in the Cristea lab in Molecular Biology, is the recipient of the Harold W. Dodds Fellowship, which was established in 1957 in honor of Princeton's 15th president. His research is about understanding how viruses remodel organelles to facilitate viral replication and spread.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
June 19, 2017Michael Levine, the Anthony B. Evnin ’62 Professor in Genomics and Professor of Molecular Biology, is one of 65 outstanding life scientists elected June 16 to membership of EMBO.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
June 16, 2017Molecular Biology graduate student Krystal Lum, a member of the Cristea lab, was awarded the NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA) for her project "Bridging virology with proteomics to define cell immune signaling upon infection."Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
June 15, 2017MOL BIO Assistant Professor Mohamed Abou Donia was chosen as a 2017 Pew Scholar. The Donia lab researches how chemicals produced by the bacteria in our body (the human microbiome) can be used to treat human diseases.Department Announcement