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  • Prof. Gia Voeltz
    MCDB Associate Professor Gia Voeltz has been recognized by Science News as one of 10 early career researchers who are 鈥渕aking their mark.鈥濃淪cience News surveyed 30 Nobel Prize winners to learn whose work has caught their attention. From those names
  • Kent Riemondy
    DNA mutations occur and accumulate during an individual's lifetime. Often these changes are harmless. But some mutations鈥恈alled driver mutations鈥恈an trigger the formation of tumors. This is often because these mutations allow the cells to grow
  • Prof. Mark Winey
    Cell-biology labs often struggle to reproduce the research results of other groups. But a 15 July report suggests that many of those troubles would vanish if scientists reached out to the original experimenters. The report, released by the
  • Amber Sorenson
    MCDB is pleased to announce that the first Blumenthal Fellowship in Down Syndrome has been awarded to Amber Sorenson, a PhD student in Robin Dowell's lab in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and the
  • Prof. Norman Pace
    Norman Pace, a University of Colorado Boulder distinguished professor in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology (MCDB), is retiring after this semester.His research and teaching career has been punctuated with prestigious awards, including
  • CU students at work hunting phage.
    Most scientific papers list a handful of co-authors, but in a monumental example of scientific collaboration and real-world undergraduate research education, a study appearing this week in the online journal eLIFE includes more than 2500
  • Prof. Joel Kralj
    By Paul MuhlradBarely six months into his new job, Joel Kralj is already making his mark. Kralj, an assistant professor in CU-Boulder鈥檚 Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and member of the BioFrontiers Institute, is one of
  • Prof. Jennifer Knight
    The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded a $300,000 grant to CU-Boulder School of Education Professor Derek Briggs and CU Denver School of Education & Human Development Professor Bud Talbot, and CU-Boulder Department of
  • Prof. Tin Tin Su
    Special Undergraduate Enrichment Programs is honored to announce the recipients of the 2014-15 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards. Undergraduates submitted letters of nomination highlighting their faculty mentor鈥檚 role on their
  • Prof. Robin Dowell
    Polyploidization 鈥 where the chromosome number is more than double the normal or haploid number 鈥 is common in fungi, plants and animals, but its influence on evolution is unclear. The Dowell Lab study describes bench-top evolution
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