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Sarah Prophet, Nick Huston, Marisa Michalchik, Seth Lyon, Vishok Srikanth
September 10, 2020
The 2019-20 Awards for Outstanding Teaching Fellows in MB&B have been announced by the Graduate Education Committee! Each year, instructors in MB&B course submit...
Mark Gerstein
September 2, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Gerstein (MB&B) for being awarded a $15 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This award was given to Dr. Gerstein...
brainstorming cells
September 2, 2020
In their recent publication in Nature Chemical Biology, the Malvankar Lab describes a previously unknown protein nanowire that is produced by Geobacter sulfurreducens. They...
Sibel Ebru Yalcin
September 2, 2020
In a study published last month in Science Advances, the group directly observed water films growing on a mineral surface for the first time. Using infrared nanospectroscopy...
Rachel Jaber Chehayeb and Jessica Wang
August 12, 2020
MB&B is extremely proud of our undergraduate students Rachel Jaber Chehayeb (’20) and Jessica Wang (’19) for their first- and second-authorship of “The GTPase-activating...
Sindelar lab members
August 7, 2020
Congratulations to the Sindelar lab on their third publication of the year. This article published in eLife examines how asymmetric sheaths contribute to flagellar...
Chuck Sindelar
August 3, 2020
The Sindelar lab recently refined a 3D cryo-EM method that allows for better understanding of the structural origins of microtubule flexibility and dynamics. Tubular polymers...