APPLICATION DEADLINES:  Ph.D. - December 1, 2025 | MS - February 15, 2026

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  • Congratulations 2026 University Scholars from MCB!
    The department is excited to announce that seven MCB students have been chosen as 2026 University Scholars! Congratulations to Riddhi Bansal Anna Coulter Rebecca Denhart Shailaja Gillett Anna Johnson Jaclyn Kolor Mackenzie Robillard See the UConn Scholar Program announcement to learn more about the scholars.
    Posted on February 20, 2026
  • MCB UGrad Colloquium Submissions now being accepted
    Submissions are now being accepted for the 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Colloquium in Molecular and Cell Biology. Graduating senior MCB or Biophysics majors are encouraged to present their research project as a short 15 minute talk. Graduating Biology majors whose project is supervised by an MCB faculty member are also invited to present their work. […]
    Posted on January 28, 2026
  • MCB Seminar: Current Landscape of DEI in Higher Ed
    Current Landscape of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Ed and UConn’s Office for Inclusion and Civil Rights Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 3:30 pm, BPB 130 Kathleen Holgerson MPA Interim Assistant Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion UConn Health Office for Diversity and Inclusion Hosted by the MCB Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Current Landscape […]
    Posted on January 21, 2026
  • Zweifach to Serve as Head of MCB
    Adam Zweifach has agreed to serve as head of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology for a five-year term, starting Jan. 1, 2026.  Adam earned his BA in biology from the University of Pennsylvania, his Ph.D. in physiology from Yale University, and completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University. Before joining UConn in 2006, […]
    Posted on December 31, 2025
  • New Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunity – Cech Fellows Program
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has launched the Cech Fellows Program, which is a new Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program designed to support rising juniors and seniors who are eager to deepen their engagement in authentic research experiences. Cech Fellows are placed in HHMI laboratories across the US for a 9-week period in the summer, […]
    Posted on November 25, 2025

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Recent Publications

Murray Lab:
Small heat shock protein HSPB8 interacts with a pre-fibrillar TDP43 low complexity domain species to delay fibril formation
Biophysical Chemistry

Erceg Lab:
The functional organization of chromosome territories in single nuclei during zygotic genome activation
Scientific Reports

Heaslip/Robinson Labs:
An apicoplast-localized GTPase is essential for Toxoplasma gondii survival.
mSphere

Nyholm Lab:
Maintaining microbiota across diverse symbiotic organs in Euprymna scolopes: Insights into shared immune responses.
PNAS

Erceg Lab:
Identity rather than 3D position informs splicing of rare introns in the human genome
iScience

Milligan-McClellan Lab:
Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them. 
Nature

Murray Lab:
The important interplay between metal ions and the intermediate filament protein vimentin
J Biol Inorg Chem

Heaslip Lab:
Cell contractility: Myosin-II-mediated contraction of fast-crawling amoebae
Curr Biol.

May/Alder/Zweifach Labs:
Mitochondria-Targeted Peptides and Bilayer Composition Modulate Membrane Electroporation under Elevated Electrochemical Stress
Langmuir

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