(l to r) Katherine Xue, Janet Song, and Rachel Moda On behalf of the entire Department, I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the following students…
(l to r) Alicia Darnell, Kyobi Skutt-Kakaria, Laura Bagamery, and Mackenzie Amoroso Four first-year MCB graduate students have been awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships from the National…
Microbes (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists) are ubiquitous on earth and affect every part of our lives. Yet they are mostly invisible, and the vast majority of…
John Koschwanez (l) and Andrew Murray How do microbes evolve to utilize nutrients that they can't import? We used engineering and experimental evolution of budding yeast to study…
Ethan Garner, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been named a Searle Scholar. He is one of 15 exceptional young faculty nationwide to receive this prestigious…
Erin O'Shea (l) and Andrian Gutu The day-night cycle is the most predictable environmental variation on Earth. Many organisms, ranging from bacteria to humans have evolved endogenous time-keeping…
This year’s Bloch Lecture will be given by Steve McKnight, Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The title of his…
In recent years, a growing number of studies have reported the identity of genes that contribute to phenotypic variation. However, few have narrowed the causative effects down to…
