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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- Dr. Daniel Gage has received two (count them 2!) new grants from the USDA AFRI-SEED program: "Microfluidic studies of signaling between rhizosphere bacteria and their predators" (PI with Shor from Chemical Engineering) AND "Pore Scale Effects of Soil Structure and Microbial Interactions on Soil Water Retention" (CoPI with Shor). Congratulations! [more]
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Recent Publications
- Fournier GP, Andam CP, Alm EJ, Gogarten JP
Molecular Evolution of Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase Proteins in the Early History of Life.
Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres [Epub ahead of print] - Rohit Ghai, Lejla Paić, Ana Beatriz Fernández, Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado,
Carolina Megumi Mizuno , Katherine D. McMahon, R. Thane Papke, Ramunas
Stepanauskas, Beltran Rodriguez-Brito, Forest Rohwer, Cristina
Sánchez-Porro, Antonio Ventosa, & Francisco Rodríguez-Valera (2011) New Abundant Microbial Groups in Aquatic Hypersaline Environments. Scientific Reports. 1:135
- Marusov, G. P., A J Sweatt, K Pietrosimone, D R Benson, S J Geary, L K Silbart, S Challa, J Lagoy, D A Lawrence, and M Lynes. 2011. A Microarray Biosensor for Multiplexed Detection of Microbes Using Grating-Coupled Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging.
Environmental Science and Technology DOI: 10.1021/es201239f
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