News, Announcements and Reminders

 News

The 2009 CBN Honors Colloquium  - The CBN Honors Colloquium took place on Friday, April 24, 2008, from 1PM to 3PM, in Room D-406 of Nelson Biological laboratories.  Faculty, students and visitors took part in recognizing the research accomplishments of our 2008-2009 honors program students.  Please click here for a list of the honors presentations.

The 2009 Mike Azzara Award in Cell Biology and Neuroscience - The recipient of this year's Mike Azzara Award in CBN is Ms. Anna T. Hader.  Anna carried out her honors research work under the direction of Dr. Mark Plummer, professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience.  The title of her honors thesis is: Quantitative Electrophysiological Analysis of Neural Stem Cell Maturation. The following photograph shows Anna holding her award certificate and posing with her research mentor, Dr. Mark Plummer.

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The National Cancer Institute’s - Integrative Cancer Biology Program 2009 Summer Cancer Research Fellowships - The 2009 Summer Cancer Research Fellowship program provides a unique opportunity for eligible sophomore or junior college students to engage in innovative integrative biology approaches to cancer research through the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Integrative Cancer Biology Program (ICBP). Selected student participants will be paired with a faculty-mentor from a participating ICBP Center based on the student’s indicated research interests. Through mentored research projects, faculty lectures, seminars, discussions, and other activities, the student will gain an understanding and appreciation of major questions currently under investigation as well as the novel approaches being used within the ICBP Centers.

We are pleased to announce that Mr. David Kopylov, a CBN major, has been accepted to this prestigious summer  Research Fellowship program.  David will be working with Timothy Kinsella, M.D. at the University Hospital Case Medical Center in Cleveland, OH. The aim of his research project is to develop a model to study the dynamics of the mismatch repair pathway and for the development of therapeutic dosing strategies of chemotherapeutic agents and radiation.

Reminders & Announcements

A reminder from the CBN advisors: All rising sophomores wishing to major in CBN are encouraged to take Fundamentals of Neurobiology (01:146:245) and Fundamentals of Cell and Developmental Biology (01:146:270) during their sophomore year at Rutgers.  Please keep in mind that 01:146:245 is offered 3 times a year (fall, spring and summer) and 01:146:270 twice a year (fall and spring).

Undergraduate students who wish to declare a major in Cell Biology and Neuroscience must consult with a CBN faculty advisor and must obtain the advisor's approval signature.  For further details and to see the contact information for the departmental advisors, please click on the Advising button on the menu.