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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- 5/12 - Assistant Professor Nathan Alder received a collaborative UCHC and Storrs/Regional Campus Incentive Grant (UCIG) with Dr. Chris Heinen's lab at UCHC for $100K / 2 years: “Monitoring effects of cancer-associated mutations on conformation dynamics of DNA mismatch repair proteins"
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Recent Publications
- Schwall, C.T., Greenwood, V.L., and Alder, N.N. (2012) The stability and activity of respiratory Complex II is cardiolipin-dependent. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Bioenergetics.
doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.04.015
- 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
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