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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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Recent Publications

  • Eric Anderson and James L. Cole 2008. Domain stabilities in PKR: evidence for weak interdomain interactions. Biochemistry 47: 4887-4897.
  • Arango-Pinedo, C., Bringhurst, R.M. and D. J. Gage (2008). Sinorhizobium meliloti mutants lacking phosphotransferase system enzyme HPr or EIIA are altered in diverse processes, including carbon metabolism, cobalt requirements, and succinoglycan production. J. Bacteriol. 190:2947
  • Noll KM, Lapierre P, Gogarten JP and Nanavati DM (2008) Evolution of mal ABC transporter operons in the Thermococcales and Thermotogales
    BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:7
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