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The TPCB application deadline was December 1, 2024. If you have any concerns about your application, please contact us at tpcb@triiprograms.org. Any late-arriving materials may not be considered as our review process has already begun. Selected students will be invited to our Open House event on January 20–22, 2025.
TPCB is delighted to congratulate Gabriella Chua, who has been recognized for her exceptional contributions to the community with the 2024 TPCB Student Service Award! Gabriella has served in numerous leadership roles in TPCB and beyond, has emplified commitment to scientific mentorship and outreach throughout her career. [more]
Our Diversity is Our Strength. TPCB has a long-standing commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion at all levels in science. Our outstanding students come from many different backgrounds and the program has zero tolerance for racism or discrimination in any form. We have taken numerous recent efforts to promote these principles. [more].
TPCB welcomes Prof. Steve Bonilla and Prof. Elizabeth Campbell, both at Rockefeller, to the faculty! Their labs bringing exciting new research opportunities to the program. Prof. Bonilla studies the 3D structure and function of viral RNA. Prof. Campbell is investigating the biochemistry and structure of microbial transcription. [more]
TPCB student Christian Baca has been recognized with an Honourable Mention in the 2024 International Birnstiel Awards! The awards celebrate exceptional young scientists working in molecular life sciences. Christian’s research with Prof. Luciano Marraffini at Rockefeller focuses on the CRISPR-Cas systems of bacterial immunity. [more]
TPCB presented the 20th Annual Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology Symposium on August 14, 2024. The event was held on the campus of Rockefeller University, with over 225 scientists attending. The day featured four keynote lectures by guest faculty, three student talks, and over 50 poster presentations. [more]
Congratulations to TPCB students Karl Lin, Deepika Nambiar, Leandro Pimentel Marcelino, and Emily Scheib, who have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships! They join three other current TPCB students who have been supported by this prestigious award to support their PhD thesis research. [more]
In a recent Nature paper, TPCB student Christian Baca and colleagues in the labs of Prof. Luciano Marraffini and Prof. Dinshaw Patel have discovered a new mechanism of bacterial immunity to phage infection, in which binding of a cyclic adenylate to a novel CRISPR effector called Cam1 arrests host cell functions. [more]
The Tri-I Chemical Biology Summer Program (ChBSP) welcomed six outstanding undergraduates on campus again this summer! The students pursued forefront chemical biology research in TPCB labs, participated in professional development activities, and presented posters on their work at the end of the summer. [more]
TPCB congratulates our 2023 graduates, Adi Berman (Kapoor Lab, RU), Ayala Carl (Alushin Lab, RU), Chen Chen (Heller Lab, MSK), Natalie Jones (Kapoor Lab, RU), Ilana Kotliar (Sakmar Lab, RU), Jordan Mattheisen (Sakmar Lab, RU), and Nicholas Prescott (David Lab, MSK)! We wish them all the best in their scientific careers![more]
TPCB students Gabriella Chua, Chun-Cheng Hsieh, Hsin-Che Huang, Nicholas Prescott, J. Jeya Vandana, Lucas Repeta, and Gianna Stella served as guest editors of a special issue of ChemBioChem. The issue featured editorials by TPCB students and primary research articles from across the chemical biology community. [more]
TPCB students attended the 2023 Career Development Retreat on September 26–27 in the Poconos. The event featured a keynote presentation by Jesse Ausubel, a panel discussion with TPCB alumni, and lots of fun and relaxation. The event was organized by TPCB students Jared Ramsey, Nicolai Tornow, and Nora Zhou. [more]