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.
Lena 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.
Eliza Prangley (GS) and Rachel Kaletsky (Postdoc) were honored for giving the best research talks at the MOL retreat.
Researchers 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.
Yan is being recognized for her seminal contributions to our structural understanding of the molecular mechanisms of membrane protein function and modulation.
Michelle Chan, Cameron Myhrvold and AJ te Velthuis will join the MOL faculty as Assistant Professors this academic year.
Rohan Shah '20 writes a compelling summary of his last semester on campus and the race for a COVID vaccine.
When the pandemic shut down almost all on-campus research, students who had arranged in-person summer research internships needed to pivot quickly. Jonathan Wang ’21 spent his summer tracking how housing insecurity affects treatment outcomes for people affected by opioid addiction.
“Do not erase.” “Recycle me.” “Free to a good home.” Inside our cells, a sophisticated recycling system uses its own enzymatic signs to flag certain cells for destruction — and a different set of enzymes can remove those flags.
In their paper appearing in the journal eLife, Princeton researchers Amir Erez, Jaime Lopez, Ned Wingreen and colleagues use mathematical modeling to explore how species diversity in a bacterial community is affected when the nutrients the microbes depend upon are only seasonally available.
The Department of Molecular Biology shipped laboratory kits to students around the world so they could conduct “at-home” experiments as part of their courses, and music and arts courses have been transformed so students can still get hands-on, practical experiences.
Princeton researchers Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca Moore, Coleen Murphy and colleagues have discovered that the microscopic roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans recognizes a small RNA made by a pathogenic bacterium, and uses that RNA to convey learned avoidance of the bacterium to offspring.
Mohamed Abou Donia received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science for demonstrating the potential of the human microbiome as a source of novel drugs and uncovering the basis of microbiome-driven drug metabolism.
Nieng Yan, the Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology, will be given the Florence R. Sabin Award for Research Excellence by Graduate Women in Science (GWIS). Dr. Yan is interviewed in this month's GWIS newsletter.
Researchers at Princeton University’s Department of Molecular Biology and the Bendheim-Thomas Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) will receive a $9-million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHBLI) to conduct an innovative study on heart health, genetics, and social determinants among vulnerable children in 12 cities across the United States.