News

October 20, 2022
The Neugebauer Group recently discovered that multimerization by coilin and interactions with the protein Nopp140 guide formation of biomolecular condensates in the nucleus....
October 18, 2022
The department is pleased to announce that the following students have received MB&B’s Excellence in Teaching Award for 2021-2022.  These awards were created to showcase...
David Schatz
October 12, 2022
Congratulations to David Schatz, a long time MB&B secondary faculty member, on winning the shared 2023 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize awarded by the Paul...
Oscar Vargas of the Söll Group
October 12, 2022
Oscar Vargas, PhD, Associate Research Scientist in the laboratory of Dieter Söll, recently received an EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the NSF....
Don Engelman
October 6, 2022
In collaboration with a research team from the University of Rhode Island and the Miriam Hospital in Providence, MB&B professor, Don Engelman, Ph.D, recently published an...
A Cryo-EM Method for Near-atomic Structures in the Intricate Networks - Kai Zhang
September 30, 2022
A grand challenge of modern cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is to determine high-resolution biological structures in their native states in the subcellular context....
MB&B researchers uncover and overcome translational roadblocks as they engineer a synthetic tRNA.
September 21, 2022
Genetic recoding is a powerful tool to utilize non-canonical amino acids and create highly diverse proteins. Researchers in MB&B have been working on expanding the...