Month: March 2022

Congratulations to Pedro Mendes, CASE inductee!

03-02-22 A warm congratulations to Pedro for being one of 12 new inductees to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Pedro, and fellow inductees, will be honored virtually at the Academy’s 47th annual meeting on May 26, 2022. To learn more about his latest achievement please read  Twelve UConn Faculty Members Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering“, in UConn TODAY.

Slepchenko Publication

02-18-22. Congratulations to Boris Slepchenko on his latest publication with CCAM alumnus Masoud Nickaeen, A model of actin-driven endocytosis explains differences of endocytic motility in budding and fission yeast. In this article they showed that a molecularly explicit model of forces exerted by actin filaments on endocytic invaginations explains the differences in endocytic invaginations between budding and fission yeast.