• Waksman Celebrated National Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
    April 30, 2013

    On Thursday April 25, Waksman participated in the National Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

    Several labs arranged a special schedule to host ten children with fun activities for the day. In Dr. Charles Dismukes' lab, the children learned to make liquid nitrogen ice cream and from the looks on their faces, they had a great time.

     



  • Dr. Konstantin Severinov Earns $1.2M NIH Grant
    February 21, 2013

    The National Institute of General Medical Sciences - as part of the National Institutes of Health has awarded $1,200,000 to Dr. Konstantin Severinov, Principal Investigator at the Waksman Institute in support of his latest research project to increase understanding of bacterial immunity and help to design new compounds that inhibit small RNA-based adaptive bacterial immunity, a validated target of antibiotics.



  • Israel's Prestigious Wolf Prize Honors Dr. Joachim Messing
    January 3, 2013

    Dr. Messing was selected for the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his research efforts and innovations in recombinant DNA cloning and for deciphering the genetic codes of crop plants. Because there is no Nobel Prize in this category, the Wolf Prize in Agriculture is also regarded on par with the Nobel Prize.



  • Symposium: "Antibiotics - Soil's Microbial Miracle"
    November 16, 2012

    In December, the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology of Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences hosted a symposium: Antibiotics - Soil's Microbial Miracle in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Selman Waksman Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Selman Waksman led the research effort in the discovery of Antibiotics and was awared the Nobel Prize in 1952.



  • In the News: Dr. Vershon Aids iGEM project
    October 19, 2012

    Genetic Engineers at Rutgers Society is a student organization founded to develop the University’s status as a synthetic biology research institute.



  • Etopia News Interviews Messing about Duckweed
    August 8, 2012

    Spirodela polyrhiza, or duckweed is currently the focus of the SpirodelaBase research project. It being featured as a prospective renewable energy and water filtration resource in the current report of Etopia News.



  • Waksman Investigator's Research Project Earns NIH Award
    April 12, 2012

    Dr. Chris Rongo of the Waksman Institute has been awared $1.1 Million for his research project, "Genetic Analysis of Neuronal Hypoxic Stress Resistance" which focuses on how neurons in the brain respond to conditions of low oxygen. 



  • Dismukes Lab Featured in Special Artificial Photosynthesis Section of Science
    December 8, 2011

    Cutting-edge research led by G. Charles Dismukes, Professor II at Waksman Institute, and students in his lab, is featured in a special section of the November 18, 2011, issue of Science. The article features a 3-page spread on artificial photosynthesis and its role in synthesizing fuels. Highlighted in the article, among other related works, are Rutgers’ bioinspired catalysts for water oxidation, a renewable source of hydrogen for fuel production. 

    See the Special Section of Science Here:



  • High-throughput Sequencing Services Available from the Waksman Genomics Core Facility
    November 14, 2011

    With the addition of the 5500xl SOLiD™ sequencing platform by Life Technologies, the Genomics Core Facility at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology gains a significant boost of its Next Generation services as well as an offering of cost-effective solutions to our customers.



  • Waksman Institute Director Honored at Celebration of Achievement
    October 6, 2011

    Richard McCormick, University President, congratulated Messing for his numerous accomplishments in research, as well as his leadership at Rutgers. To mark the occasion, McCormick unveiled the official portrait of the Director, which will join those of Waksman’s great leaders: Selman Waksman, Oliver Lampen and David Pramer. Aaron Shatkin, Director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Robert Goodman, Executive Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Jay A.



  • 2011 NJ Inventor of the Year
    September 15, 2011

    The New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, led by a Board of Trustees and committees, promotes the role of invention in the state’s development and the role of inventors in improving society and changing lives.



  • Professor Emeritus' 40-year-old Research Revived
    July 11, 2011

    Forty years ago, Dr. Carl Schaffner of the Waksman Institute hypothesized that the antifungal candicidin, discovered by colleague Selman Waksman, could prevent the absorption of cholesterol in the gut. This, in turn, might reduce the size of enlarged prostates. Indeed, his early clinical studies showed exactly that--lowered cholesterol levels and reduced prostate size in male dogs.



  • New Chair in Molecular Genetics
    July 5, 2011

    Waksman Director and University Professor of Molecular Biology, Joachim Messing, was officially appointed to the newly endowed Selman A. Waksman Chair in Molecular Genetics.