APPLICATION DEADLINES:  Ph.D. - December 1, 2026 | MS - February 15, 2027

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  • MCB Summer Fellowships Announced
    The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 graduate and undergraduate student summer fellowships. These distinguished fellowships are made possible by some very generous donors and are offered on a competitive basis to the most highly qualified students. Please join us in congratulating them on their accomplishments and […]
    Posted on April 6, 2026
  • MCB’s Hailey DeWalt ’26 Scores Big at the Big East Research Contest
    The Big East Undergraduate Research Symposium was held at Madison Square Garden on March 14, 2026. UConn's team won top honors and Hailey DeWalt ’26 earned individual honors at the symposium. The molecular and cell biology major took first place in the STEM category for her poster on antimicrobial defense of Hawaiian bobtail squid eggs […]
    Posted on March 23, 2026
  • David Goldhamer Inducted into Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
    Professor David Golhamer is one of nine new members from UConn elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). He is recognized for having achieved a level of scientific distinction through original contributions to science and engineering. See UConn Today - Making CASE: Nine UConn Faculty Inducted into Prestigious Group
    Posted on March 16, 2026
  • 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

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Campellone Lab:
Autophagosome turnover requires Arp2/3 complex-mediated maintenance of lysosomal integrity
MBoC

Nyholm Lab:
Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches
Nat Ecol Evol

Alexandrescu Lab:
Solution structure of the novel CH-domain zinc finger from the puberty regulator makorin-3
BBRC

Goldhamer Lab:
The role of muscle fascia in heterotopic ossification and maintenance of skeletal muscle integrity in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Bone

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

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