Welcome to the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
 Welcome to the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut. We represent fundamental disciplines in biology at the number 1 public university in New England, including genetics and genomics, microbiology, cell biology, biochemistry and structural biology & biophysics. Considerable depth in faculty expertise and departmental resources are available to you in MCB in each of these disciplines and we invite you inside to discover for yourself the exciting research and educational opportunities to be found in this department.
David R. Benson
Professor and Head of Department
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- You may be wondering...what is Biophysics? For an answer see the MCB graduate student production put on YouTube by Andy Wowor HERE
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Recent Publications
- Wosczyna, M. N., Biswas, A., Cogswell, C., and Goldhamer, D. J. (2012). Multipotent progenitors resident in the skeletal muscle interstitium exhibit robust BMP-dependent osteogenic activity and mediate heterotopic ossification. J. Bone Miner. Res. 27, 1004-1017
- Nelson, M. and J. Graf. 2012. Bacterial Symbioses of Hirudo verbana. Gut Microbes 3:1-10
- B. R. Menzies, M. B. Renfree, T. Heider, F. Mayer, T. B. Hildebrandt and A. J. Pask. 2012. Limited genetic diversity preceded extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger. PlosOne 7(4): e35433. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035433
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