Reminiscing, catching up, and looking ahead, MolBio alumni return for Reunions 2026. A happy gathering! See photos from the May 22 reception in Lewis Thomas Laboratory. pumolbio.smugmug.com/2026-MolBio-...

2026 MolBio Reunions - Princeton University Dept. of Molecular Biology

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Hearty congratulations to the Class of 2026 MolBio graduates and award recipients honored on Class Day, Monday, May 25, 2026! 86 majors this year, the largest in departmental history! molbio.princeton.edu/news/2026/cl...

Class Day 2026 & MolBio Award Recipients

Hearty congratulations to the Class of 2026 MolBio graduates and award recipients honored on Class Day, Monday, May 25, 2026! Department Chair Elizabeth Gavis charged the record-setting 86 graduates, ...

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Little is known about how the immune system responds to pregnancy and lactation and why and how these changes take place. New research from the lab of Ai Ing Lim details extraordinary changes in mothers’ immune systems to ensure successful reproduction. molbio.princeton.edu/news/2026/li...

Lim Lab: Mothers’ secret recipe for fending off infection

Surprisingly little is known about how the immune system responds to pregnancy and lactation, and why and how these changes take place. This research details extraordinary changes that take place in m...

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Congrats 🥂 to MolBio senior Aaliska Sapkota '26 (Silhavy), one of eight winners of the 2026 Spirit of Princeton Award, honoring Princeton University undergrads for positive contributions to campus life. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...

Cameron Myhrvold is the Theobald Smith Society's 2026 Young Investigator Awardee. The society awards this prize "to an early career scientist who embodies research excellence, commitment to service, and limitless potential in the microbiological sciences." www.njmicrobe.org/young-invest...

Martin Wühr awarded funding through the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund. Wühr, together with LSI's Michael Skinnider, will apply the award toward "learning the language of mass spectrometry to revolutionize proteomics quantification." research.princeton.edu/news/eight-p...

Alex Ploss elected Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA), recognizing individuals whose careers reflect deep curiosity, scientific excellence and a commitment to compassionate care and health equity. www.idsociety.org/news--public...

Lim lab investigates: Helminth worm-infected mice give birth to pups with elevated anti-viral defenses in their lungs, leaving them more resistant to infection by respiratory viruses such as influenza and RSV. What causes these protective effects? molbio.princeton.edu/news/2026/wh...

What is lost is not lost

Lim lab investigates: Helminth worm-infected mice give birth to pups who have elevated anti-viral defenses in their lungs, leaving them more resistant to infection with respiratory viruses such as inf...

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Princeton undergrads build real-world skills through community health micro-internships. NJ ACTS collaborated with the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship and community partners to design and fund four different short-term initiatives. molbio.princeton.edu/news/2026/pr...

Princeton undergraduates build real-world skills through community health micro-internships

The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) collaborated with the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) and community partners to design and fund four differe...

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Alexander Ploss, Princeton’s Harry C. Wiess Professor of Life Sciences and Molecular Biology, and the co-director of the Global Health Program, was awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of medicine and health. 🥂 www.princeton.edu/news/2026/04...

MolBio alum on a 24 game streak on Jeopardy! Who is Jamie Ding '13? www.facebook.com/PrincetonU/p...

The HiFi Yield Leaderboard is here! 🏁 Q1 is officially in and the Princeton University (@princeton.edu) Genomics Core Facility is leading the pack with 181 Gb of HiFi yield on Revio. Our next winner will be announced in June. Congrats to the team for setting an impressive pace! #PacBio #Princeton

David Botstein, a leader of the Human Genome Project, dies at 83. “We mourn the passing of ... a visionary whose leadership built the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and defined the modern era of quantitative biology.” - Coleen Murphy www.princeton.edu/news/2026/03...

David Botstein, a leader of the Human Genome Project, dies at 83

Botstein, Princeton’s Anthony B. Evnin ‘62 Professor of Genomics, Emeritus, and an emeritus professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, died on Feb. 27.

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Today in Nature Cell Biology, a collaborative effort across labs (Jonikas, Wingreen, Brangwynne) at Princeton discovers the key to regulating a biomolecular condensate. Congrats to first authors Shan He and Linnea Lemma! molbio.princeton.edu/news/2026/ke...

KEY1 unlocks the pyrenoid

“The regulation of condensate assembly and disassembly is a major outstanding question in the field, and this paper is a beautiful elucidation of how that works for the pyrenoid,” says Clifford Brangw...

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Pub Alert-Science-te Velthuis Lab: Polymerase trapping as mechanism of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus genesis [NOTE: "Pub Alert" is a publication summary provided by the authors. May be more technical in tone than an "Explainer/Press Release."] molbio.princeton.edu/news/2026/pu...

Pub Alert - Science - te Velthuis Lab: Polymerase trapping as mechanism of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus genesis

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Wingreen named 2026 Laureate of the Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics, recognizing outstanding scientists whose work has significantly advanced the understanding of biological systems through physical principles. www.linkedin.com/posts/biosof...

BioSoft, Tel Aviv University, congratulates the 2026 Laureates of the Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics. The prize recognizes outstanding scientists whose work has significantly… ...

BioSoft, Tel Aviv University, congratulates the 2026 Laureates of the Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics. The prize recognizes outstanding scientists whose work has significantly a...

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For Princeton professor Lydia Lynch, #WorldCancerDay is about raising awareness for research and prevention – and honoring her own cancer journey. As a child, she never imagined she’d be a cancer scientist... www.instagram.com/p/DUVrrktlPff/

Congrats to Pyne Prize awardee Katie Daniels '26, advised by MolBio's Daniel Notterman. "Katie contributes to Princeton through exceptional scholarship, sustained leadership, care for others, and a deep sense of responsibility to the broader community.” www.princeton.edu/news/2026/02...

Pyne Prize awarded to Princeton Class of 2026 members Braeden Carroll and Katie Daniels

The award is the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. The students were recognized at Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 21.

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“Why are some males caring while others neglectful?” asks postdoc Forrest Rogers, advised by PNI’s Peña, and MolBio’s Mallarino. His research reveals a molecular “switch” in the brain that may make the difference between a doting or disinterested dad. pni.princeton.edu/news/2026/ma...

The making of doting dads

Depending on social circumstances and genetics, male African striped mice either dote on pups or attack them.

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Congrats🥂 to grad student Lifei Jiang, a Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Awardee. Advised by Kang and Brangwynne, her research is to understand the biological functions of biomolecular condensates in the context of cancers. molbio.princeton.edu/news/2026/ji...

Jiang awarded Weintraub Graduate Student Award

Graduate student Lifei Jiang, is one of 12 recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, announced today by the Fred Hutch Cancer Center, honoring the exceptional achievements of gradu...

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On Friday, January 30, the MolBio Postdoc Committee hosted a special colloquium, "Welcoming 👏 New MolBio Postdocs." Of the 23 new postdocs for 2025, 11 attended the event introducing themselves and their research focus. Welcome aboard! 🚢 molbio.princeton.edu/news/2026/we...

Welcoming 2025 Postdocs

On Friday, January 30, the MolBio Postdoc Committee hosted a special colloquium, "Welcoming New MolBio Postdocs." Of the so far 23 new postdocs for 2025, 11 attended the event introducing themselves a...

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Congrats to MolBio senior Sukaina Shivji '26, named as Sachs Global 🌐 Scholar! With coursework focused on health inequity and health systems abroad, Shivji plans to attend medical school and hopes to work as a physician⚕️ with under-served populations. www.princeton.edu/news/2026/01...

100+ San Francisco-based Princeton MolBio alumni network during Jan 12 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference! Hosted by Jones Day's Nora Lou *12 with organizers Eric Shiozaki *03 and Mark Esposito *17. Talks by Princeton-connected start-ups, a panel on deal making, and posters. Oh my!

"Targeting these enzymes that produce a localized high concentration of retinoic acid in tumors, our compounds have the potential to reactivate important immune responses to cancer.” --YiBin Kang www.princeton.edu/news/2026/01...

Yibin Kang’s team identifies new path to potential cancer treatments

A team of cancer biologists led by Princeton’s Yibin Kang has resolved a confounding paradox about retinoids and cancer cells and found a potential new avenue for thwarting many cancers, including pan...

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Princeton at Cell Bio 25! MolBio grad alumni and current grad students met up in Philadelphia, PA at the annual joint meeting of ASCB and EMBO, 12/6-10.

Bonnie Bassler received Philadelphia’s John Scott Award, one of the US’s oldest science awards given to "the most deserving" men and women whose inventions have contributed in some outstanding way to the "comfort, welfare and happiness" of mankind. molbio.princeton.edu/news/2025/ba...

Bassler receives Philadelphia's John Scott Award

The John Scott Award, established in the early 1800s in Philadelphia, is given to "the most deserving" men and women whose inventions have contributed in some outstanding way to the "comfort, welfare ...

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2025 MolBio Retreat Wrap-Up: 2 days, over 300 attendees, 19 First-Years, 10 MolBio Scholars, 8 sessions, 37 talks, 60 posters, 15 Awardees, and countless cups of coffee! molbio.princeton.edu/news/2025/20...

2025 MolBio Retreat Wrap Up and Awardees

The 41st annual MolBio Retreat, a two-day science cornucopia on Friday and Saturday, October 3-4, 2025, convened again in Frick Chemistry Laboratory's Taylor Auditorium and Atrium. Over 300 attendees,...

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MolBio senior Isam Mina awarded Rhodes Scholarship for Jordan! “Breakthroughs in the laboratory matter little if the systems that deliver them remain inaccessible or inequitable.” www.princeton.edu/news/2025/10...

Te Velthuis & Myhrvold: "We discovered a simple trick to make the CRISPR-Cas13 crRNA complex better at recognizing single nucleotide changes, and therefore better at detecting mutations.” molbio.princeton.edu/news/2025/te...

Onwards! Pilot grants awarded to three teams of Princeton researchers in Princeton Molbio and Princeton Neuro to support moving their discoveries into clinical applications. molbio.princeton.edu/news/2025/th...

Three Translational Pilot Grants Awarded to Princeton Researchers

Three teams of Princeton researchers were awarded NJ ACTS pilot grants in 2025. The competitive grants support biomedical researchers seeking to transform their discoveries into clinical applications

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