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Monica Mannings receives 1st prize Graduate Student Poster at Midwest Zebrafish Meeting

Congratulations to 2nd year MCDB student, Monica Mannings, for winning 1st prize Graduate Student Poster at the Midwest Zebrafish Meeting.  Monica joined the Amacher Lab in 2018. …

Congratulations to Kelsey Pinckard on her first-authored article in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Effects of Exercise to Improve Cardiovascular Health

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2019 Jun 4;6:69. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00069. eCollection 2019.

MCDB Alum, Andrea Hindman, presents at the California Breast Cancer Research Program's Global Idea Challenge

MCDB alum and current Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Silent Spring Institute, Andrea Hindman, represented her organization at the California Breast Cancer Research Program’s Global Idea Challenge…

Jacob wins 2019 RNA Fellowship

Congratulations to Jacob Longenecker, in Federica Accornero's Lab, on winning the 2019-2020 RNA Fellowship! The fellowship program is one of the most important activities of the Center for…

13th Annual IGP Symposium

The 13th Annual Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Symposium took place on Tuesday, May 21st.  Student research from the four Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs: the…

Congratulations to the 2019 MCDB Graduates!

Congratulations to the 2019 MCDB graduates!

Corinne Haines, Kristi Miller, Geeta Palsule and Kiel Tietz

Congratulations to the 2019 Three Minute Thesis Winners!

Congrats to our 2019 3MT winners! 

1st place - Sanjana Rajan 

2nd place - Revati Dewal

3rd place - Kaitlin Hamilton

Researchers uncover new facets of HIV’s ‘arms race’ with human defense system

Research led by one of MCDB’s faculty, Shan-Lu Liu, demonstrates the important role of one protein in allowing HIV to flourish within human cells despite the immune system’s efforts to…

Congratulations to Matias Montes on his first-authored paper in Trends in Genetics

Trends Genet. 2019 Jan;35(1):68-87. doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2018.10.002. Epub 2018 Nov 19.