Robert Christian Railey on his work in the Sutphin lab at the University of Arizona.

Mohammed Ahmed Jalloh on his work in the Buchan lab exploring the function and dynamics of stress granules and the ways they influence cell survival and human health.

Olivia Fernflores will graduate with a Bachelor’s in MCB, Bioinformatics, and Information Science in December 2024 and will graduate from the Accelerated Master’s Program in MCB in 2025.

Solange Duhamel, Associate Professor, MCB, recently had a paper published in Nature Reviews Microbiology.

Lisa Rezende, PhD, Associate Professor of Practice in Molecular & Cellular Biology received the Distinguished Achievement in Science Education Award 2024.

Recent research by Stephen F. Smith, A.F.M. Tariqul Islam, Shoxruxxon Alimukhamedov, Ethan T. Weiss, and Pascale G. Charest published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry revealed new insights into how certain proteins, Ras and mTORC2, work together to help cells move and communicate.

In a paper recently published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology, authors Emily M Waggoner, Kahina Djaoudi, Julia M Diaz, and Solange Duhamel explore how the common marine cyanobacterium, Synechococcus, uses different types of dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) compounds, which are crucial nutrients in ocean ecosystems.

The 2024 Graduate Award for Teaching is Mollie Wiegand! Mollie completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona from 2014-2018, with a major in Veterinary Science and a minor in Molecular and Cellular Biology.

This paper presents the quantitative characterization of a bacterial synthetic adhesion toolbox through several biophysical methods.