Hearty Congratulations to the Class of 2023 MolBio Award Recipients honored on Class Day, Monday, May 29, 2023!

"These awards honor a terrific group of seniors for their exemplary senior thesis research and writing, and we wish them the very best in their future endeavors," noted Elizabeth Gavis,…

Nikon Instruments Inc. announced the judging panel for the 2023 Nikon Small World photomicrography and Small World in Motion video competitions, to be held June 6–8 at the Marine Biological Lab (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Ed Cara, Science and Health Reporter at Gizmodo; James Cutmore, Picture Editor at BBC Science Focus…

Graduate student Nicole Katchur's 2023 Princeton Research Day presentation received the Graduate Student Impact Award. Katchur is an MD/PhD candidate at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Princeton…

Three projects with the potential to open new avenues in science and engineering — mapping the body’s “electrome,” miniaturizing imagers to monitor the environment and human health, and accelerating gene editing for the treatment of disease — have been selected for funding through Princeton’s

During the winter break between the 2022-23 academic year semesters, MolBio concentrators Leuna Sen '24, Jack Shigata '23, and Gillian Hilscher '23 stepped up to contribute to the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship.

The te Velthuis lab has been awarded support from the Dean for Research Innovation Fund for New Industrial Collaborations. A.J. te Velthuis, assistant professor of molecular biology, will collaborate with…

Flying squirrels, sugar gliders and bats haven’t had a common ancestor in 160 million years, but they form their wing flaps using some of the same genetic ingredients.

That’s the intriguing finding from a Princeton-led team of biologists, detailed recently in the journal Science Advances. In other words, when the seven known flying…

John J. Hopfield, the Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences, Emeritus, shares the inaugural 2023 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Medal for the…

The government of Canada announced today that Bonnie Bassler is being awarded the Canada Gairdner International Award 2023 alongside Michael Silverman and E. Peter Greenberg “for their discoveries of how bacteria communicate with each other and surrounding non-bacterial cells, providing a new paradigm for how microbes behave and yielding novel avenues for therapeutics against infectious diseases.”

Six new innovations with potential to benefit society will receive university funding to aid in the transition from early-stage research into real-world products and services. Two of the six projects awarded in 2022 are to faculty in the Department of Molecular Biology.

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In a paper published Feb. 28 in the journal eLife, a team of researchers headed by Alexander Ploss settle a debate about a key protein in hepatitis E (Hep E), which could open the way to developing treatments for a tiny virus that poses an outsized threat to public health around the globe.

John Jimah, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in neuroscience.

Alexander Ploss, Professor of Molecular Biology, is among 65 new fellows elected to the Class of 2023 of the American Academy of Microbiology.

36% of the current faculty of the Princeton University Department of Molecular Biology are women. The department celebrates the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Six new grants to enable Princeton researchers to acquire state-of-the-art equipment or replace aging scientific instruments have been awarded through the Provost and Dean for Research Transformative Equipment Initiative.