Princeton University QCB student Cassidy Yang died this past weekend in Ohio as a result of a car accident. She was 26.
Story by The Office of Communications Cassidy Yang was a fifth-year graduate student in quantitative and... Read more
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Dec 09
2020
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Nov 18
2020
Everybody's got a hungry heart
Considering how hard the human heart works, it’s not surprising that it needs a continuous supply of fuel to run efficiently over the human lifespan. What is surprising, however, is its fuel preference and the rate at which it... Read more
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Sep 22
2020
Long-term COVID-19 containment will be shaped by strength and duration of natural, vaccine-induced immunity
Princeton researchers, including Chadi Saad-Roy, a Ph.D. candidate in Princeton's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, report that the impact of natural and vaccine-induced... Read more
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Sep 22
2020
Researchers in the Murphy lab discover how worms pass down knowledge of a pathogen to their offspring
The microscopic roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans feeds on bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, certain environmental conditions can cause P. aeruginosa to change in such a way that it becomes pathogenic -- that is... Read more
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Sep 10
2020
Seating is #1 COVID risk for fans in stadiums - Futurity
John E. McCarthy, professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics and statistics department at Washington University in St. Louis, helped develop a mathematical model that assesses the risk of attending a public sporting... Read more
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May 28
2020
COVID-19's silent spread: Princeton researchers, including Ned Wingreen and Chadi Saad-Roy, explore how symptomless transmission helps pathogens thrive
A new study finds that silent transmission can be a successful evolutionary strategy for pathogens such as viruses like the one that causes COVID-19. The study features work by graduate student... Read more
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Apr 29
2020
Britt Adamson named 2020 Searle Scholar for studies of genome editing
One of 15 early-career scientists chosen this year, Adamson was selected for the project, “Mapping the Processes of Genome Editing in Human Cells.” She studies the organization and function of biological pathways in human cells... Read more
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Apr 23
2020
Welcome to our incoming class of QCB graduate students!
We are excited to welcome our new QCB graduate students! They will join us fall 2020. Isaac Breinyn (UC-Santa Barbara) Gabriel Dolsten (Yale) Emma Gerlinger (University of Michigan) Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte... Read more