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September 18, 2020
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MCB News
MCB Department Award

Congratulations to the MCB Department for being awarded the University's Department Award for Excellence! This annual award recognizes departmental excellence in the management of people and resources!

MCB Faculty Awards
Dr. Lisa Rezende, MCB Assistant Professor of Practice, is one of three university instructors to be awarded the Gerald G. Swanson Prize for Teaching Excellence! It's no surprise to us in MCB! Read more about Dr. Rezende's path to teaching and why she is so passionate about communicating science!
Dr. Molly Bolger was named as one of the members of the third cohort of Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) Distinguished Fellows. Dr. Bolger and her lab, were recognized for Supporting Teaching Assistants' Implementation of a High-Impact, Open-Inquiry Curriculum. Dr. Bolger also won The College of Science Distinguished Achievement in Science Award. This award acknowledges the dedication with which Dr. Bolger served as a recognized leader in the field of Science Education for the University and the Tucson Community.

MCB Grants
Congrats to Dr. Tim Bolger, MCB Assistant Professor and scientist with @UAZCancer, for his recently awarded R01 grant! Dr. Bolger's lab uses yeast as a model organism to answer fundamental science questions and this grant funds research looking at a family of enzyme that The Bolger Lab already studies - RNA helicases that affects translation of protein syntheses. This research funded by this grant specifically is to figure out how this family of enzymes is involved in cellular stress responses. Read more here. 
Congratulations to Dr. Molly Bolger, Associate Professor Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Co-PI Emily Dystra, for a recent grant from NSF! This project builds on the Bolger Lab’s prior work creating Authentic Inquiry through Modeling (AIM-Bio), a laboratory curriculum that provides students with opportunities to ask scientific questions and develop their own experiments to test those questions. This project will develop a program to train TAs to mentor students in scientific inquiry. It will also study how TAs intentions for teaching align with the ways that they interact with students in the classroom. By including a focus on the rationale behind TA’s classroom teaching, this project will provide novel insights to guide efforts to train TAs as teaching professionals.

Dr. Nancy Horton was awarded a large grant from NSF which was used to purchase an MRI for a new analytical ultracentrifuge for use in her research!
MCB Faculty in the News
MCB Department Head, Dr. Joyce Schroeder, led the UArizona roll-out of the new smartphone app, Covid Watch. Adoption and use of this new app is one of the key components of a successful re-opening of the UArizona campus. Read more about how the app works and watch a video on how UArizona partnered with Covid Watch to develop a customized Exposure Alert Notification app!
MCB Faculty Publications
Read about one of MCB's Astrobiologists, Dr. Betül Kaçar, and what her new published paper found!
Kaçar and co-authors' paper was published in PNAS

Dr. Solange Duamel co-authored a paper published in frontiers in Microbiology.  

Drs Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Honesty Kim had a paper published in Science Direct.

Dr. Riedel-Kruse co-authored a paper published for the CHI: Conference on Human Factors in  Computing Systems. Read the paper “Pac-Euglena: A Living Cellular Pac-Man Meets Virtual Ghosts”.

Dr. Ryan Gutenkunst co-authored a paper published in Molecular Biology and Evolution titled “Inferring the Demographic History of Inbred Species from Genome-Wide SNP Frequency Data".

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Thank you Keith and Mara Aspinall for your generous donation!
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