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Molecular and Cell Biology

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Nogales Lab members lined up on stairs

Lab group of Eva Nogales, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology

Photo credit: Paul Sauer

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The teaching and research activities of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) concern the molecular structures and processes of cellular life and their roles in the function, reproduction, and development of living organisms. The types of living organisms from which the departmental faculty draws its working materials range from viruses and microbes through plants, roundworms, annelids, arthropods, and mollusks to fish, amphibia, and mammals.

Research Divisions

BBS Biochemistry, Biophysics
and Structural Biology
IMM Immunology and
Molecular Medicine
CDBCell Biology, Development
& Physiology
MTX 
Molecular Therapeutics
GGD Genetics, Genomics,
Evolution, and Development

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Martin receives 2026 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award
In Memoriam: Fred Huffman Wilt
Dernburg, Penhoet and Whiteman elected 2025 AAAS Fellows
Big Give 2026 success!

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Events

April 28
Self-nonself discrimination conferred by regulatory T cell specificity
Peter Savage
April 28
Decoding LRRK2: Mechanistic Biology Driving New Therapeutic Horizons in Parkinson’s Disease
Dario Alessi
April 29
Functional evolution of antiviral innate immunity accross scales
Lucie Etienne
April 29
A Molecular Magnet at the Lysosome: How Rab Proteins and Organelle Stress Activate LRRK2 in Parkinson’s Disease
Dario Alessi
May 6
New twists to telomere length regulation
Carol Greider

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