Research

Qualified students can participate in cutting-edge research with faculty listed below in Cell/Molecular Biology and Biochemistry as well as Environmental and Organismal Biology.  Individual research programs include:

• Biology of the Cell Membrane
• Plant Cell Ultrastructure
• Motor Neuron Disease
• Biology of Cancer
• Life in Extreme Environments
• Biogeochemistry
• Marine Microbiology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Plant Biochemistry
• Pollutant Transformations
• Functional Genomics
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Molecular Ecology
• Developmental Biology
• Molecular Virology
• Neurobiology
• Invertebrate Zoology
• Marine Biology

Undergraduate and graduate students who wish to conduct research projects are encouraged to meet with one of the Professors listed below as soon as possible. While faculty generally enjoy having students work in their laboratories, there is a limit to the number of students who can be accommodated by any one professor.

In addition to the research programs within the department, there are interesting projects on-going in the Massachusetts BioProcess Development Center, the Center for Chronic Disease Control, the Center for Environmentally Appropriate Materials, and the Polymer Degradation Laboratory, and other laboratories in the Department of Biochemistry.

Cell/Molecular Biology & Biochemistry

Brian Bettencourt

Susan Braunhut

Deane Falcone

Peter Gaines

Michael Graves

Garth Hall

Jerome Hojnacki

Ezequiel Rivera

Tom Shea

Environmental and Organismal Biology

Rick Hochberg

Mark Hines

Juliette Rooney-Varga

Robert Tamarin

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