Image Amanda Adams - MCB Outstanding Senior! May 9, 2025 Congratulations Amanda - our 2025 MCB Outstanding Senior! Read more
Image College of Science 2025 Galileo Circle Awards Announced April 25, 2025 Among the College of Science's 2025 Galileo Circle Awards recipients are George Sutphin and Emily Dykstra. Read more
Image Bryce Wilson wins prestigious Churchill Scholarship Feb. 17, 2025 The Winston Churchill Foundation has awarded Bryce Wilson a 2025 Churchill Scholarship, which supports undergraduate students who wish to pursue a year of Master's study in science, mathematics and engineering at Cambridge University. Read more
Image Biophysical Modeling of Light-Dependent Movement in Euglena Gracilis Feb. 17, 2025 Tsang Alan Tsang Cheng Hou, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong and Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, Associate Professor MCB, published a paper exploring how a single-celled organism called Euglena gracilis reacts to different light intensities. Read more
Image Lighting Up Bacteria: Riedel-Kruse and Jin’s New Technique Reveals How Biofilms Grow and Resist Antibiotics Feb. 17, 2025 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". Read more
Image Unveiling HPV’s Secrets: A Path to Better Prevention and Global Access Jan. 13, 2025 Ashlin Schaefbauer is working to make the HPV vaccine more effective and more affordable so that everyone can have access to it. Read more
Image The Scent of Science: How I Found My Path in Microbiology and Environmental Impact Jan. 9, 2025 Christina Guerrero on her work as a Ph.D. student in Dr. Rebecca Schomer's lab at the University of Arizona. Read more
Image Following the Signals: How A Passion for Neuroplasticity Sparked My TORC1 Research Jan. 8, 2025 How does a cell really work? How does it make decisions? How does the sum of its microscopic parts become a self-sufficient entity, which can form communities of increasing complexity, creating organs, and ultimately advanced life? Read more
Image From Circuits to Cells: Bridging Biology and Electrical Engineering Jan. 7, 2025 Raymond Hon: I am working on understanding biological networks, specifically the network that cells use to make decisions about growth. Read more
Image From Stars to Soils: An Astronomer’s Journey into Molecular Biology Jan. 3, 2025 Adriana Gomez-Buckley about her work as a graduate student at the University of Arizona in the Carini Lab. Read more