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The CCIB would like to congratulate our director, Dr. Grace Brannigan, for winning the Rutgers University Presidential Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award! This award honors tenured faculty members who display outstanding research and teaching contributions to the Rutgers University Community! We are all truly appreciative of Dr. Brannigan’s leadership and commitment to the CCIB and are… continue reading

The CCIB would like to congratulate the 1st and 2nd place winners of the CCIB Master Student Poster session, Tanisha Dhakephalkar and Noureen Abdelrahman!! Well done to all of the participants of the session and we look forward to seeing everyone’s progress in the future! 1st place winner: Tanisha Dhakephalkar  2nd place winner: Noureen Abdelrahman

The CCIB would like to congratulate Alyssa Vanerelli for her honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Reseach Fellowship Program!! Alyssa is a PhD student in the Geneva Lab and the CCIB is very proud of her accomplishments!! Check out her Honorable mention here: NSF FastLane :: GRFP (research.gov)

The CCIB would like to congratulate our faculty member Dr. Michelle Carlin! Dr. Carlin was interviewed by the New York Times for an article on the affects that certain types of poppy seeds could have on drug tests. The article states that eating some types of poppy seeds could result in drug tests coming back… continue reading

Congratulations to Dr. Geneva for being awarded an NSF grant to continue his work in the study of atadenovirus evolution and the evolution of their reptile hosts. Atadenoviruses are within the adenovirus family, it is widely believed that the viruses within this family co-evolve with their reptile hosts, however the atadenovirus genus do not follow… continue reading

Congratulations to Dr. Qi being awarded an NSF grant for her work in the stomatal development in Arabidopsis. This award will allow the Qi Lab to continue their research in stomatal development and drought tolerance by exploring the function of naturally produced stress hormones. The Qi lab has identified a drought mutant and by analysis… continue reading