The Danny Brower Scholarship was established by the MCB Department to honor the professional accomplishments of Danny Brower, Professor and Scientist, for over 25 years at the University of Arizona. The winners of this esteemed scholarship for 2025 are Aparna Chandrasekar and Caleb Konecek.

The 2025 MCB Excellence in Research Award goes to Bryce Wilson, a double major in MCB and Biochemistry! Congratulations on this achievement!

Congratulations Amanda - our 2025 MCB Outstanding Senior!

Xizofan Jin, Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, and Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, recently published a paper in Nature Communications, titled "Optogenetic patterning generates multi-strain biofilms with spatially distributed antibiotic resistance".

Ashlin Schaefbauer is working to make the HPV vaccine more effective and more affordable so that everyone can have access to it.

Alexis Grace Garbarczyk: In my lab, I look at different proteins and try to decipher the messages they send.

Raymond Hon: I am working on understanding biological networks, specifically the network that cells use to make decisions about growth.