The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology was represented at the 2023 College of Medicine Celebration of Research with over 20 posters from our students and faculty! Find a full list of posters and presenters below. Image Gallery Jane Hsi, Jacob Combs, and Alex Cantrell Mario Chang (Merritt Lab) and…
Dr. Chen Zhao comes to us from Rockefeller University where she completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Nobel Prize awardee, Dr. Roderick MacKinnon. Her Ph.D. training was at Yale University in the laboratory of Dr. Anna Marie Pyle where she she also gained extensive teaching experience in both…
Dr. Joanna Long was recognized for 20 years of service at the recent College of Medicine Spring Faculty Awards ceremony. Congratulations, Dr. Long! We look forward to working with you for the next 20 years.
Congratulations to Robert McKenna, PhD, for receiving the 2022-2023 the Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award! The UF Graduate School’s annual Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral and Master of Fine Arts students through their final dissertation or fine arts thesis project. Nominations…
Congratulations to Mario Chang for being a Silver Award Winner at the 2023 Medical Guild Research Symposium! Mentor: Matthew Merritt, PhDTopic: “Assessing Chemotherapeutic Efficacy In Vivo Using Deuterium Metabolic Imaging”…
Department of biochemistry and molecular biology provides road map for research in molecular life sciences…
The U.S. National Science Foundation will invest an additional $195.5 million over the next five years in NSF’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. This investment maintains the National MagLab as a world-class facility, providing researchers and scientists with access to a range of powerful instruments and magnets including the world’s most powerful…
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory will receive $195.5 million over the next five years, a move that keeps the world’s most powerful magnet lab headquartered at Florida State University with partner sites at University of Florida and Los Alamos National Laboratory and supports groundbreaking discoveries using high field magnets.
Melike Caglayan, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology in the University of Florida College of Medicine, has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the repair mechanism of DNA.
When asked what he would focus on if he could do anything other than his current work as a prominent brain metabolism scientist, Matthew S. Gentry, Ph.D., didn’t hesitate.
