Kocher receives NIH Director's New Innovator Award
Princeton faculty members Sarah Kocher and Andrew Leifer are among 60 researchers nationwide to receive 2019 New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The... Read more
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Oct 02
2019
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Aug 27
2019
Lewis-Sigler Institute releases Community Values Statement
The Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics is committed to fostering an open, inclusive, and supportive environment for all of our students, faculty, and staff. We now provide a Community Values Statement to... Read more
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Jul 17
2019
Coleen Murphy awarded one of the three annual "Women in Cell Biology" awards from the American Society for Cell Biology
Murphy, a professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, won the WICB Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Research, which is open to women seven... Read more
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Jun 12
2019
Princeton researchers publish study on learned behaviors in C. elegans
Princeton University researchers have discovered that learned behaviors in worms of the species C. elegans can be inherited for multiple generations, transmitted from parent to progeny via eggs and sperm cells.... Read more
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Jun 12
2019
Wingreen wins President's Award for Distinguished Teaching
Story by Karin Dienst, Office of Communications Four Princeton University faculty members, including Ned Wingreen, the Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences and professor of... Read more
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May 28
2019
Artificial intelligence detects a new class of mutations behind autism
Many mutations in DNA that contribute to disease are not in actual genes but instead lie in the 99% of the genome once considered “junk.” Even though scientists have recently come to understand that these vast stretches of DNA... Read more
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Apr 19
2019
Wieschaus named fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research
The American Association for Cancer Research has elected Eric Wieschaus, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, as a fellow of the AACR Academy “for his Nobel Prize-winning identification of genes responsible... Read more
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Apr 19
2019
How the fruit fly got its stripes: Researchers explore the precision of embryonic development
The first moments of life unfold with incredible precision. Now, using mathematical tools and the help of fruit flies, researchers at Princeton have uncovered new findings about the mechanisms behind this precision. In a new... Read more