The mission of MCB is to understand fundamental biological processes at the molecular and cellular levels across all domains of life. We accomplish this through research, classroom teaching, and laboratory training directed at promoting the intellectual curiosity and critical thinking of individuals at all career levels including undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research staff members, and faculty.

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  • Undergraduate Student Success
    MCB Graduate Stephanie Schofield, (’23 CLAS), Among Ten UConn Fulbright Recipients for 2023-24 2024 SURF Awards Keertana Chagari ’25 (Molecular and Cell Biology, CLAS) Project Title: Reproducible Bioinformatic Workflows to Produce Diploid Phased Eukaryotic Genome Assemblies Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jill Wegrzyn, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Peter Fatzinger ’26 (Molecular and Cell Biology, CLAS) Project Title: […]
    Posted on July 15, 2024
  • First-Ever Sequencing of Great Ape X and Y Chromosomes
    UConn researchers helped complete nationwide effort to understand ape genome. Tor the first time, researchers have assembled a complete “end-to-end” reference genome for the sex chromosomes of five great ape species and one lesser ape species. The findings shed light on the evolution of sex chromosomes and inform understanding of diseases related to genes on these chromosomes in both apes and humans.
    Posted on June 18, 2024
  • Education in Aging and Geroscience Research Program (EAGR) announces 2024 Scholars
    EAGR Program Director, Kenneth Campellone is pleased to announce that six undergraduate students have been named as 2024 scholars. Bailey Millis, Kelsey Gorgei, Emily Szydlo, Elizabeth Parkerson, Milad Zameeri, and RoseMina Notch will participate in an immersive, hands-on Summer research program in Geroscience research labs at UConn and UConn Health. The UConn Undergraduate Education in […]
    Posted on June 3, 2024

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  1. Aug 19 New PhD and MS Grad Student Orientation 8:30am
  2. Aug 22 MCB Department Retreat 10:00am
  3. Aug 27 MCB Seminar Series: Dr. Matthew Anderson 3:30pm
  4. Aug 29 MCB PSM Student Orientation 5:00pm
  5. Sep 3 MCB Seminar Series: D.B. Jay Mahat 3:30pm
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Recent Publications

Giardina Lab:
Early onset colorectal cancer: Cancer promotion in young tissue.
Biochem Pharmacol

Alexandrescu Lab:
The temperature dependence of hydrogen bonds is more uniform in stable proteins: analysis of NMR h3JNC' couplings in four protein states
Molecules

Lynes Lab:
Bacterial metallothionein, PmtA, a novel stress protein found on the bacterial surface of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and involved in management of oxidative stress and phagocytosis.
mSphere

Gogarten Lab:
Neighboring inteins interfere with one another's homing capacity
PNAS Nexus

Lynes Lab:
Extracellular metallothionein as a therapeutic target in the early progression of Type 1 Diabetes
j.cstres

Lynes Lab:
Stress biology: Complexity and multifariousness in health and disease
j.cstres

Teschke Lab:
Bacteriophage P22 SieA-mediated superinfection exclusion
mbio

Representative Publications