CMNS is a college where pioneers, scholars and innovators learn, collaborate and innovate to build a better future.

Thanuri Navarathna (B.S. '20, biological sciences) will study an endemic bacterial disease in Sri Lanka, bringing her public health training to the country where her family is from.

A joint UMD-University of Exeter study shows how collective movement enables viruses to persist with migrating bacterial colonies while minimizing the risk of either complete viral takeover or bacterial escape.

This position is part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology, supporting postdoctoral fellows and a new Predictive Biology Hub for Human and Environmental Health dedicated to fostering collaborative research and new educational programs in Quantitative Biology. 

The statistical modeling skills Wesley DeMontigny mastered while studying genomics gave him an upper hand.

Once (or twice) bitten, biological sciences Ph.D. student Jory van Thiel pieces together the genetics of one of nature’s deadliest concoctions.

Postdocs bring valuable expertise, national prestige and additional research funding to UMD.

This summer, three UMD researchers played important roles in the prestigious Marine Biological Laboratory’s summer neurobiology course.

Assistant Professor Julia Van Etten researches how organisms acquire genes from other species through a process called horizontal gene transfer.