We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Erin Jimenez, an esteemed assistant professor in our Department of Biology, has been recognized as a 2024 Discovery Awardee for her groundbreaking work […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Rejji Kuruvilla on Becoming the Vice Dean for Natural Sciences!
Dr. Rejji Kuruvilla, a professor in the Department of Biology, now also assumes the role of vice dean for natural sciences as of January 1, 2024, taking over from Bertrand […]
Richard E. McCarty, former Krieger School dean and renowned plant physiologist, dies at 85
An article featured in the HUB that can be found here, announced that Richard E. McCarty, died at home in Roland Park Place in Baltimore on February 23 due to […]
Disordered C-terminal domain drives spatiotemporal confinement of RNAPII to enhance search for chromatin targets
The Wu lab employed single-molecule tracking and spatiotemporal mapping in live yeast to demonstrate the necessity of the CTD in restricting RNAPII diffusion within a subnuclear area enriched with active […]
Dynamic 1D search and processive nucleosome translocations by RSC and ISW2 chromatin remodelers
The Wu lab utilized optical tweezers and two-color single-particle imaging to examine the Brownian diffusion of RSC and ISW2 on unbound DNA and scattered nucleosome arrays. Various members of the […]
Lab-Grown Retinas Explain Why People See Colors Dogs Can’t
Using human retinas grown in a petri dish, researchers have discovered how an offshoot of vitamin A generates the specialized cells that enable people to see millions of colors, an […]
Tabea Moll received the Young Investigator Award for Best Oral Presentation
Tabea Moll, a graduate student in the Farber lab, received the Young Investigator Award for Best Oral Presentation at the European Lipoprotein Club meeting 2023 in Tutzing Germany.
Male Sex Chromosome, Missing Piece In Human Genome, Finally Decoded
The chromosome associated with male development, which is the last mysterious piece of the human genome, has been fully sequenced by a team of more than 100 researchers around the […]
Faculty Focus: Andrew Bortvin
Andrew Bortvin is PhD student from the CMDB program in Rajiv McCoy’s lab. Andrew has recently co-taught the intersession course – Modeling Biological Populations. Describe your primary research or scholarship, […]
Two CMDB researchers named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
Ten Johns Hopkins University researchers are among 508 distinguished scholars elected to the newest class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific […]