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BMB Welcomes Jordan Bisanz to the Department

Jordan’s research focuses on understanding how the communities of micro-organisms in and on us, microbiota, function to impact health and disease.

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Bio-tech cluster added to Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor program

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ENTI) Minor now has a tenth cluster with the latest addition of the Bio-Tech option.

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Rolls honored with Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

The award honors faculty members for exemplary leadership that benefits graduate students and faculty in an existing graduate program at the University.

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Being among the top 50 research universities, I knew that I could pursue my interests in biochemistry while being among world-class faculty.
Emily Snell, Microbiology Major, Class of 2019

 

 

 

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department

Our faculty are recognized leaders in their fields and are dedicated to their research as well as educating the next generation of scientists.

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Song Tan

Verne M. Willaman Professor of Molecular Biology
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Susan Hafenstein

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and The College of Medicine
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Timothy Meredith

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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