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Molecular and Cell Biology

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Lorenzo Lones standing in front of a blackboard teaching

Lorenzo Lones, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Division of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology, teaching stereochemistry to students in Bio1A: General Biology

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Curiosity Driven Basic Research, Education, Training and a Commitment to Public Service

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The teaching and research activities of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) concern the molecular structures and processes of cellular life and their roles in the function, reproduction, and development of living organisms. The types of living organisms from which the departmental faculty draws its working materials range from viruses and microbes through plants, roundworms, annelids, arthropods, and mollusks to fish, amphibia, and mammals.

Research Divisions

BBS Biochemistry, Biophysics
and Structural Biology
IMM Immunology and
Molecular Medicine
CDBCell Biology, Development
& Physiology
MTX 
Molecular Therapeutics
GGD Genetics, Genomics,
Evolution, and Development

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Basic research on Listeria bacteria leads to unique cancer therapy

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March 20
What is true for E. coli is true for the elephant’ in the age of archaeal cell biology
Arthur Charles-Orszag
March 23
CDP SPRING RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: A Symposium honoring Distinguished Professor Emeritus Jeremy Thorner - “Saccharomyces cerevisiae: The Very Model of a Modern Model Organism”
Jesse Patterson
March 26
Activity-based protein profiling – target and ligand discovery on a global scale
Benjamin Cravatt
March 31
Dynamic analyses reveal novel pathways that shape CD8+ T cell differentiation with tumor progression
Ana C. Anderson
April 1
Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in human health and disease: Reframing the role of FMRP in Fragile X Syndrome
Lynne Maquat

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