The Department of Molecular & Cell Biology is pleased to welcome six new junior faculty members for the 2013-14 Academic year.

• Gloria Brar - Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology (Arrives 1/2014)
  Regulation of meiotic translation, the roles of pervasive short translation products, and the co-option of stress responses for cellular differentiation through meiosis
• Nicholas Ingolia - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology (Arrives 1/2014)
  Molecular basis and physiological roles of the Translational control of gene expression through global and genome-wide analyses
• Evan Miller - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology (joint appointment with Chemistry)
  Chemical biology, neuroscience, organic chemistry, fluorescence, imaging
• Kaoru Saijo - Pending Appointment in Immunology and Pathogenesis (Arrives 1/2014)
  Nuclear Receptor-mediated regulation of Neuroinflammation
• Elçin Ünal - Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development (Arrives 1/2014)
  Investigating the mechanisms that ensure cellular fitness during gametogenesis
• Roberto Zoncu - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology (Arrives 1/2014)
  How organelles sense nutrients and regulate cellular growth