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graphic of sugar pathway in neuron in fruit fly

Dus Lab: High-sugar diet blunts taste, leads to obesity in flies Cell Reports, May 7, 2019

Vecchiarelli Lab: Organization of Carboxysomes in Cyanobacteria Interplay of proteins lets carboxysomes arrange themselves evenly within cell

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Biological Sciences Building Opens MCDB is on the move to new building

Sixteen Research Themes MCDB research follows 16 themes, including Signal Transduction and Communications. This image from the Cadigan lab shows a mutation's effect on Drosophila antenna.

Science of Sleep and Memory Formation Aton Lab research on memory featured in LSA Today, new publication in Nature Communications

Videogamers May Have Tips for Scientists Gamers playing the popular online puzzle game Foldit beat scientists, college students and computer algorithms in a contest to see who could identify a particular protein's shape.

2019 Connell Symposium

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Basic research on the function of living organisms with focus on the molecular and cellular levels of all branches of life — bacteria, plants, and animals. Learn what our faculty focus on and the model organisms we study.
Graduate programs with about 60 PhD students, and about 12 masters students
Cell and Molecular Biology undergraduate major with nearly 200 graduates each year.

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2019 Photo Contest Winners Selected

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2019 Science Winner Roop Jaffri, MacAlister Lab.

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