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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

  • Jinling Huang and J. Peter Gogarten (2008) Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution Genome Biology 9(7): R109
  • Lemaire, P.A., Anderson, E., Lary, J. and Cole, J.L. (2008) Mechanism of PKR activation by dsRNA. J. Mol. Biol. 381, 351-360.
  • Hou JM, D'Lima NG, Rigel NW, Gibbons HS, McCann JR, Braunstein M, Teschke CM. (2008) ATPase activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis SecA1 and SecA2 proteins and its importance for SecA2 function in macrophages. J Bacteriol. 190:4880-7.
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