The Judith A. and David C. Kelly Summer MCB Research Fellowship program will support three rising senior MCB majors in their research activities in an MCB Faculty laboratory during the summer of 2022. These three fellowships, funded jointly by the Kellys and MCB, in the amount of $8,000 each, are intended to support students with […]

MCB Department Head, Michael Lynes,  announced the recipients of the 2022 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 the department in congratulating them on their accomplishments and demonstrated academic promise. […]

UConn MCB alumni Jason Bennett, ’16 was featured in UConn Today – how his degree led him to be present at the birth of game-changing mRNA technology “People don’t realize there’s a giant world of biofarma out there where you can try different things and find where your passion lies” Jason Bennett See story in […]

UConn announced the Fall 2021 IDEA (Imagine/Develop/Engage/Apply) grant award winners. Among them are MCB student Varsha Irvathraya ’23,  Molecular and Cell Biology, CLAS. This award will support her summer 2022 project: Exploring the Role of Kctd6 in Regulating the Shh Signaling Pathway.  Varsha will explore the pathways involved in limb development, with a focus on […]

Two of UConn MCB’s PSM alumni have been profiled in the National Professional Science Master’s Association’s annual newsletter. Marsenia Harrison Mathis, PSM, Microbial Systems Analysis 2009 and Maria Del Carmen Rosas, PSM, Applied Genomics, 2020 were profiled in the association’s newsletter, The PSM Alumni and Graduation Chronicle, 2021. Marsenia Harrison Mathis, MPH, M.S. Microbial Systems […]

What determines our species – our membership in team Homo sapiens? Or our assigned gender at birth? In part, we are classified by our chromosomes – the supramolecular assemblies that organize our genomes. How chromosomes are passed down through generations, and the consequences of defects in chromosome dynamics on health and evolution are amongst the […]

Everywhere we look, everything is different. The Universe itself is filled with galaxies and stars that are patchily distributed. Even mathematics is not immune from diversity as some sets of infinities are larger than others. However, most of the familiar diversity, or heterogeneity we encounter every day is biological, from the people we meet to […]

The following MCB undergraduates were named 2022 University Scholars (of 17). University Scholars is a prestigious UConn undergraduate program in which students design and pursue in-depth research or a creative project and craft a learning plan that supports their interests and academic goals during their final 3 semesters. Awardee projects demonstrate exceptional breadth and/or depth […]