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October 27, 2020Aiello and Mahon recognized for service to MOL BIO
Nicole 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, 2020Johnson and Betsinger win MOL BIO Teaching Awards
MOL Postdoc Matt Johnson and graduate student Cora Betsinger were honored at the department retreat for their excellence in teaching.Department Announcement
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April 17, 2019Research -
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 -
February 21, 2019Assistant Professor Ricardo Mallarino was selected to receive a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship, a highly competitive grant given to outstanding young scholars working at the frontiers of their fields.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
February 11, 2019Fifteen graduate students at Princeton are training to be doctors through a joint program between Princeton University and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.Department Announcement -
February 6, 2019Alexander Ploss and his team will receive funding to explore new ways to treat yellow fever using mice with humanized immune systems.Grants, Fellowships and Awards -
January 31, 2019The first moments of life unfold with incredible precision. Now, using mathematical tools and the help of fruit flies, researchers at Princeton have uncovered new findings about the mechanisms behind this precision.Research -
December 20, 2018Princeton professors Mala Murthy and Joshua Shaevitz are using the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically track animals’ individual body parts in existing video.Research