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Another magical season ends one win shy of the Sweet 16. We finish as Ivy League Tournament champions and with a 23-10 overall record, tying the modern day school record for wins in a season.
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Extremely useful advice from Joan Steitz as we finish off today’s symposium in her honor! “If making discoveries in science gives you joy, go for it!”
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MB&B assistant professor, Dr. Allison Didychuk, recently received the DP2 New Innovator’s Award grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Congrats to Joan A. Steitz, PhD, Sterling Prof of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, received a 2021 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize.
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A huge congratulations to Wendy Gilbert, PhD, and Christian Schlieker, PhD, for their promotions to Full Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry! 👩🏻🔬🧪👨🏻🔬
We are thrilled to share that Dr. Enrique De La Cruz, PhD, was elected to be a fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)- one of the most prestigious scientific honor societies in the US. Congratulations, Enrique!
Wendy Gilbert, PhD, wins the 2023 RNA Society Award for Excellence in Inclusive Leadership. We are proud of Wendy and their work to make our department more inclusive!
"Dr. Joan Steitz, a beloved scientist and powerhouse of the MB&B department, has been awarded the Prize Medal from the Microbiology Society."
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MB&B faculty members Daniel DiMaio, PhD, Joan Steitz, PhD, and I. George Miller, Jr., MD, headed Yale’s longest running basic science grant. The grant spanned 45 years and produced nearly 500 publications.
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MB&B is thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Enrique M. De La Cruz to Chair of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, effective July 1, 2020, for a three-year term.
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The killing of George Floyd was murder. His death has catalyzed world events because of hundreds of years of chronic & pervasive abuse perpetrated against black & brown peoples. It has no place in society & no place here. MB&B stands against racism & all forms of discrimination.
We're looking for a stellar scientist to join us as a tenure-track assistant professor! To mitigate biases, we will be reviewing applications in 2 stages- the first will review only anonymized application materials. For more information, visit our website!
"Joan Steitz, PhD, Sterling Professor of MB&B and HHMI investigator, donated $33,000 to the Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine. The donation comes from Steitz’s portion of the Wolf Prize"
Read more on the donation and program here:
The Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale University invites applications for a Senior Lecturer with an appointment starting July 1, 2022.
And, of course, this is a paid position!
For more information and to apply, visit our website:
A Cryo-EM Method for Near-atomic Structures in the Intricate Networks
"Based on the multi-curve fitting, they accurately estimate the principal signals of tubulin-lattice and computationally subtract the signals from raw cryo-EM micrographs."
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"Congratulations to MB&B department chair, Dr. Enrique De La Cruz, for being inducted into the inaugural class of American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Fellows. "
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We’re so happy to finally get a departmental photo all together! We’re so grateful to have the opportunity to share our science with each other on such a beautiful day!
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MB&B is changing how we search for new colleagues "We are screening applications ‘blind’ to prevent evaluation shortcuts that use where candidates earned their degrees, who mentored them, and which journals published their work as proxies for quality."
We are delighted to have Dr. Joseph Puglisi for this year's Thomas A. Steitz Lecture. Join us on October 25th at 4PM to hear Dr. Puglisi's talk on the "Dynamic of Translation" in the Yale Marsh Lecture Hall and via zoom!
Congratulations to MB&B PhD candidates Ellen Corcoran and Jake Thrasher for being awarded Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Awards (F31) from the NIH!
Read more about their research and awards here:
MB&B faculty members Alan Garen, PhD, and Thomas Pollard, PhD plan to retire this year. These two titans of MB&B have left a lasting legacy in their respective fields and will be dearly missed by our department!
Congrats to Christian Schlieker, PhD and Els Kuiper, MSc, a postdoctoral fellow joining the Schlieker lab this year, for receiving one of the two Bachmann-Strauss Fellowships in Dystonia Research awarded during its inaugural year.
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On Tuesday, March 7th in SHML C-103, Carson J. Bryant, Baserga Lab, will be defending. The title of his defense is “Uncovering Novel Biological Regulators of Ribosome Biogenesis.” Defense will start at 1:00 pm and refreshments to follow.
We believe the best science is done when everyone from all walks of life is involved. We believe that we’re better together. Happy Pride Month!
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Excited to be awarded an
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@AFOSRYIP
Young Investigator Program grant to find new ways to peek inside cells infected with herpesviruses 🔬! Congrats to all the awardees 🎉 🎉🎉
MBB's Dr. Karla Neugebauer talks about how cell biology and molecular biology can be leveraged to solve environmental issues and climate change in a recent Nature Cell Biology piece.
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MB&B graduate student, Jake Thrasher (
@jakegthrasher
), illustrated the cover of the Autumn 2021 issue of the Science for the People Magazine (
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).
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Incredible accomplishment alert!🚨 MBB undergraduate Hannah Barsouk was selected as a Barry Goldwater Scholar!
Barsouk was selected among a pool of 5,000 high achieving sophomores and juniors to receive this prestigious award!
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Jennifer Miao, a Yale ’22 MB&B undergraduate, was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in biological science at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge.
Collaborative study by
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@Gersteinlab
@Xiongosome
is now out in the latest issue of JBC - discovery of the Ig fold “pearls-on-a-string” protein NOMO1 as flexible and tunable molecular ruler for membrane spacing.
On Friday, March 10th in Hope 216, Austin Draycott, Gilbert Lab, will be defending. The title of his defense is “Canonical and Non-canonical Functions of Dihydrouridine Synthases in Health and Disease.” Refreshments served at 1:45 pm and defense will start at 2:00 pm.
Congratulations to Dr. Enrique De La Cruz and Dr. Robert W. Fernández for being honored on the 100 Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists in America list.
MB&B congratulates Jennifer Doudna for her 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Doudna launched her research group as an assistant professor in MB&B in 1994, later becoming a Henry Ford II Professor of MB&B. We are proud of her and her accomplishments!
MB&B is proud of two of our recent undergraduates for being first and second author of a paper in
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. The paper was also feature on the issue's cover!
Congratulations to all our newly minted MB&B PhD graduates! We are incredibly proud of these young scientists and can't wait to see the impact they will have on the world!
Please join us on March 14th at 1PM in SHM C-103 for Allison Butt's thesis defense titled "The Duality of Neurons: Co-transmission of Serotonin and a Neuropeptide, NLP-3, in the Caenorhabditis elegans Egg-Laying Circuit"
Join us Friday, May 3rd at 2PM in Hope H-103 (or via zoom) for Cole Lewis' thesis defense titled "Maximizing Therapeutic Protein Yield Through 5' UTR Optimization"
On Thursday, March 16th in Hope 110, Mason McCool, Baserga Lab, will be defending. The title of his defense is “Novel Protein Regulators of Human Ribosome Biogenesis” Refreshments served at 3:15 pm and defense will start at 3:30 pm.
Donald Engelman, PhD, Eugene Higgins Professor of MB&B, is co-author on a textbook scheduled to release in January 2022. The textbook is titled Cell Boundaries: How Membranes and Their Proteins Work. Congrats, Dr. Engleman!
Welcome Dr. Tang- MB&B's newest assistant professor!
Steven Tang joins Yale MB&B as an Assistant Prof in January. Tang's work is focused on the cell-surface proteome & the molecular machines for cell-cell fusion in human development & disease.
Congratulations to Martha Braun and Nicolle Rosa-Mercado for winning the 2021 Mary Ellen Jones Dissertation Prize! This prize is awarded to recognize the most distinguished dissertation in MB&B each year.
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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Mary Ellen Jones Prize, Tara Alpert and Jeremy Schofield! The Mary Ellen Jones Dissertation Prize is awarded to recognize the most distinguished dissertation in MB&B submitted during the academic year.
Learn more about applying to Yale's graduate program in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry! Please apply by December 1, 2020. Fee waiver applications are due by November 30, 2020.
Hongying Shen, PhD, an MB&B PhD graduate and current assistant professor of cellular and molecular physiology, recently received the the Lois and Franklin Top Jr. Scholar Award.
Malvankar Lab publishes on ultrafast electron transfer through nanowires of living biofilms
"This work introduces a new class of natural photoconductors for whole-cell catalysis..."
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"An MB&B postdoc, Jeffery Tharp, PhD, has been awarded a Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Dr. Tharp is a postdoc is a current postdoc in the Söll lab."
Congratulations, Dr. Tharp!
Delighted to share that I am joining Yale's faculty in
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Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. My lab studies how the cell-surface proteome shapes and sculpts cellular membranes in regenerative physiology and infectious disease. Learn more at:
Join us Dec 7th at 3PM to support Kathryn Barth who will be defending her thesis titled "Investigating the Sequence Requirements for Specific Ligand Recognition in Variant Riboswitches." This event will be at WCCC 208 with a zoom option availible.
On March 9th BASS 305, Aldo Ivan Salazar Morales will be defending. His defense is titled “Molecular assembly and secretion of Geobacter sulfurreducens pili and cytochrome nanowires in extracellular electron transport.” Refreshments served at 1:45 and defense starts at 2 pm.
The Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale University seeks applicants for a tenured faculty appointment at the Associate/Full Professor level. The research area is open!
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The Baserga lab recently published a paper in PNAS that examines relationship between splicing variants of RBM28 and ANE syndrome.
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Congratulations to Dr. Lilian Kabeche for being awarded the 2021 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research.
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Katelyn Noronha will defend her thesis titled "Understanding Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Oncometabolite Producing Cancers" on Wednesday, Dec 13th at 10AM in BML 137 and via zoom. Please join us for this defense.
"Daisy Duan, a second year MB&B student and member of Anthony Koleske’s group, recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) fellowship."
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Two MB&B faculty members, Dr. Ronald Breaker & Dr. Frederick Sigworth, were elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS) this month. Congratulations Dr. Breaker and Dr. Sigworth!
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2019-20 Outstanding Teaching Fellows Awards to Nick, Marisa, Seth, Sarah and Vishok! MB&B thanks you all for your excellent teaching skills in the classroom, your teamwork, and your support of students and faculty. A standing ovation to all of you!!!
"The two high resolution cryo-EM structures determined by Zhang and collaborators reveal one equivalent of ubiquinone-8 (UQ8) in the dynamic substrate binding site as well as several phospholipid molecules."
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Join us September 14th at 12PM in SCL 110 for Shivali Patel's thesis defense titled "A pipeline for discovery and determination of functional tertiary structure in large RNAs." This event can also be attended via zoom.
"The Malvankar Lab and members of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California collaborated to the PNAS publication discovering “hopping” electrons and how far they travel in proteins."