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The Biology Department at the University of Rochester provides faculty, postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. students, and undergraduates with advanced research opportunities in the biological sciences. The department is united by a common interest in genetic processes which has created a continuum of research interests among the different laboratories. Areas of special focus are Cellular Biology, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.


Department News

  • Evolutionary Biologist Professor Daven Presgraves, Wins $875,000 Packard Fellowship to Study Speciation
  • Jasper lab identifies mechanism causing degeneration of aging stem cells
  • Gorbunova lab finds novel anti-cancer mechanism in long-lived rodents
  • Faculty Position in Cell, Development and Molecular Biology
  • Prof. H. Allen Orr wins Rare Darwin-Wallace Medal
  • Professor H. Allen Orr Named 'University Professor' for Diverse Body of Achievements
  • Congratulations to Grad student Julienne Ng who won the Henri Seibert Award for best student presentation at the Joint Ichthyology and Herpetology Meetings in Montreal
  • Werren Lab Wolbachia lateral gene transfer paper included in Discover Magazines Top 100 Science stories of 2007
  • Presgraves study confirms large effect of X chromosome in speciation
  • Werren Lab discovers One Species' Genome Inside Another's
  • Prof. Terry Platt awarded "Natural Science Professor of the Year" by the Students' Association.
  • UR Biology scientist, Bob Minckley, speaks out on why honeybee colonies are dying.

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