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Congratulations to Sean Starkloff!

Congratulations to Sean Starkloff of the Lin Lab, on his award for "outstanding presentation" at ABRCMS conference in Anaheim, CA last week!

Posted: November 22, 2022, 11:53 AM

5 Year Talk by Shonda Campbell

Please join us!

Please join us in person for a 5-Year talk presented by Shonda Campbell next Wednesday, 11/30/22 from noon - 1pm in BS 004. Shonda is a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Jeff Leips lab and currently working...

Posted: November 21, 2022, 10:24 AM

Congratulations to Dr. John Fenimore!

Congratulations to Dr. John Fenimore for his successful PhD defense! Kudos as well to his NIH mentor Dr. Howard Young. . #UMBC #UMBCbiology #Cardiomyopathy #Bioscience #CNMS #NIH #mathscience #STEM

Posted: November 19, 2022, 6:53 PM

Congrats to Ryan Bacon!

From Mercedes Burns..."Please join me to congratulate Ryan Bacon on passing his preliminary exam this morning!"  His title was “Reproductive seasonality as a significant driver in the Evolution of...

Posted: November 11, 2022, 2:45 PM

Lecturer Needed

The Department of Biological Sciences is recruiting a full time, non-tenure track Lecturer for the 2023 Spring semester. Please see the flyer for details! ....

Posted: November 11, 2022, 1:00 PM

Congratulations to Elia Mascolo!

That smile!

Congrats to Elia on passing his prelim entitled 'Evolution of Transcriptional Regulatory Systems in Bacteria Copied from Ivan Erill... "It is my pleasure to announce that Elia Mascolo just...

Posted: October 27, 2022, 10:24 PM

Congrats to Alyson!!!

Prelim = PASSED

Congratulations to Alyson Blount for passing her prelim and a big thank you to her committee! @LeGatesLab @marykaylobo @PRRobinson88 @SuttonLab @vonhofffflylab . #umbc #biology #phdlife #science

Posted: October 14, 2022, 12:53 PM

Chris Mayer-Bacon's talk on the evolution of genetic code

Thursday Oct 6th 12pm via zoom link

Chris Mayer-Bacon will be a guest speaker at the Center for the Origin of Life (COOL) this Thursday at noon, discussing his PhD work on the evolution of the amino acid alphabet. Below is the...

Posted: October 4, 2022, 3:01 PM

Biotech Virtual Career & Grad School Fair - Sign Up Now!

NEW and EXPERIENCED seekers interested in biotech careers!

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - Thursday, October 13, 2022 All Day Online Attention students and prospective graduate students and job seekers!  The National Institute for Innovation...

Posted: October 4, 2022, 12:44 PM

Join the Biology Department for a seminar by Dr. Bustos

Pattern regulation in Drosophila

Please join us in BS 004 on Wednesday, October 5th, from noon-1:00 for a seminar presented by our own, Dr. Mauricio Bustos. The title of Dr. Bustos' talk is "Pattern regulation in Drosophila by...

Posted: October 4, 2022, 12:04 PM