Department of Biological Sciences

The Biological Sciences department spans a broad range of scientific disciplines—Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Genetics, Computational Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, Developmental Biology, and Neurobiology. Areas of research from our award-winning faculty include biological clocks, genome maintenance, protein trafficking, vector biology, symbiosis, social evolution, microbiomes, speciation, brain asymmetry, synapse formation and plasticity, and touch, visual, and olfactory sensory systems.