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

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

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  • Twelve MCB Undergrads Receive UConn Summer SURF Awards
    The 2026 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards have been announced. Out of the 39 total awardees, MCB is pleased to share that twelve of the students are Molecular and Cell Biology Majors. MCB recipients are: Caroline Burkhardt ’28 (Anthropology & Molecular and Cell Biology, CLAS), Project Title: Chronic Illness Experiences on the Hopi Reservation, Faculty Mentor: […]
    Posted on April 27, 2026
  • GO:MCB Announces 2026-2027 Executive Board
    Join us in congratulating the newly elected board members! President: Shania Kalladanthyil Vice President: Maddy O'Connor Treasurer: Danielle Arsenault Secretary: Lianna Wagner Outreach Coordinator: Ellie Dubois Senator: Nadia Upah
    Posted on April 27, 2026
  • MCB’s Milligan-McClellan Receives AAUP Service Excellence Award
    Kat Milligan-McClellan, Assistant Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology was awarded the 2026 AAUP Faquir Jain Excellence Award. The award represents excellence in Service with positive impact on Connecticut citizens, in line with the land-grant mission National/international service contributing to the common good Leadership enhancing UConn’s visibility and student recruitment outcomes Contributions to academic program […]
    Posted on April 22, 2026
  • Two MCB Undergrads Named Goldwater Scholars
    MCB majors Daniel D'Souza ('28) and Mackenzie Robillard ,27 are two out of three recently named Goldwater Scholars for the current year. The Goldwater Scholarship is considered the nation’s premier scholarship for undergraduates studying math, natural sciences, and engineering. See article in UConn Today
    Posted on April 14, 2026

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Recent Publications

Nyholm Lab:
A mother’s gift: Provisioning of plastid-derived structures into eggs promotes invertebrate development and dispersal
PLoS Bio

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

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