John Storey, the William R. Harman '63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics and professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, has been awarded the 2015 Mortimer Spiegelman Award by the American Public Health Association (APHA).

Adel Mahmoud, Professor in Molecular Biology and public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University was recognized with an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Case Western Reserve University on Sunday, May 17, 2015.

Karla Frietze, a fourth year graduate student in the Boulanger lab, was awarded the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research fellowship.  This is the first graduate fellowship sponsored by the NJCBIR for our Department, and the first ever for Princeton University.  

Raymundo Alfaro-Aco and Eric Glynn received the NSF Graduate Award for their research in the Petry Lab.

Justin Silpe was awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG / DoD) fellowship to support his interest in studying biofilms from a combined biological, materials science, and engineering perspective.

A new study from Princeton University researchers sheds light on the handing over of genetic control from mother to offspring early in development. Learning how organisms manage this transition could help researchers understand larger questions about how embryos regulate cell division and differentiation into new types of cells.

Two projects in the Department of Molecular Biology have been awarded support through Princeton University's Dean for Research innovation funds.

A new study has identified genes involved in long-term memory in the worm as part of research aimed at finding ways to retain cognitive abilities during aging.