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March 27, 2020MOL Facilities staff crucial to COVID-19 shutdown planning
During the COVID-19 shutdown, MOL Facilities staff members Jeffrey Fisher, Bill Huston, Dave Huber and Mike Fredericks are playing a critical role in preserving MOL BIO's research, filling cryo freezers and performing other key functions. We are grateful for their service.Department Announcement -
March 26, 2020MOL BIO donates supplies to local hospitals
The 400 swabs, 20 cases of gloves, surgical masks and 100 disposable lab coats that the Department of Molecular Biology was able to donate from our teaching labs to local hospitals to support diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 patients. We were able to give a similar amount from the research labs.Department Announcement
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January 17, 2018Alex Lorestani and Nick Ouzounov discuss their founding of Geltor, a startup that aims to provide synthetic proteins to the food and cosmetic industries.Research -
December 11, 2017Researchers in the Kang lab, in collaboration with Amgen, have developed an antibody to fight bone cancer metastasis.Research -
November 30, 2017Researchers in the Burdine lab have discovered that receiving maternal gdf3 is essential for normal embryonic development.Research -
November 27, 2017Nouhad Husseini '00 of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals presented in the MOL BIO industry speaker series.Department Announcement -
November 14, 2017Researchers in the Enquist lab have discovered a unique latency model system to reveal specific cellular and viral components that can prevent herpes virus latency.Research -
November 8, 2017MOL BIO postdoc Jesse Donnovan and Associate Professor Alexei Korennykh's paper, A mutation in the viral sensor 2’-5’-oligoadenylate synthetase 2 causes failure of lactation, was featured on the cover of the November issue of PLOS Genetics.Research -
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