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November 2018
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MCB Alumni Spotlight

A Series of Rude Awakenings!”

Alexandria Lau, PhD, MCB Class of 2006
 

When Alexandria Lau, PhD, entered her undergraduate degree program at the University of Arizona, she didn’t envision a career in ensuring people were consuming safe food and beverages, however, several path changes lead her to just this – working in both the confections industry and the wine industry as a toxicologist.
 

Read the full article here 

MCB News

Wilbur Welcomes High School Students to UA for a Day of Science!
 
The Department of MCB hosted our annual Meet MCB event last week and we had over 110 high school students visit campus and learn about UA, MCB, research and life as a college student. 13 MCB labs hosted tours and provided opportunities for high school students to see how a research lab works and hear from faculty about how students can participate in research projects. High school students also heard from current undergrad students about life on campus, what college is like and ideas for making a successful transition from high school to college.

Where was Wilbur? At our Meet MCB event! Wilbur joined us for lunch and let visiting students know that a degree is science is COOL!

Read the article in the Tucson Weekly here.


Upcoming Events

Visit out MCB Calendar on our MCB website here for the latest event information. We have several seminars and speaker series that are free and open to the public!

 

Faculty News

 

Dr. Joyce Schroeder and Ginny Clements Partner to Eradicate Breast Cancer!

University of Arizona Cancer Center's latest publication features an article on Dr. Joyce Schroeder, head of MCB Department and director of UA Cancer Center Metastatic Breast Cancer initiative and Ginny Clements. Read about how a cancer biologist and philanthropist are working together to eradicate breast cancer!
 

Justina McEvoy, Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, BIO5 Institute and Pediatrics was featured in a UA Cancer Center article about her research on rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer that mostly strikes children and teenagers. Read the article here.

 

Megha Padi, Assistant MCB Professor and Director, Arizona Cancer Center Bioinformatics Shared Resource, wins American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant for her research project “Detecting functional modules that drive cellular transformation”. Her project will develop new tools for understanding what happens inside a cell during the first few steps of cancer, and will suggest possible drugs that can stop the process as early as possible.

 

Assistant MCB Professor Betul Kacar had an essay published in MIT’s Journal of Design and Science. Her essay discusses the possibilities of alternative futures with afrofuturist sci-fi writer Ytasha Womack. Read the full essay here: https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue4-womack-kacar

 

The John Templeton Foundation just published a write up of Kacar’s lab's work. Read about how Kacar’s research explores the big life questions about whether there is life elsewhere in the universe:

 https://www.templeton.org/grant/molecular-insights-into-historical-constraints-on-evolution-2

If you live in Tucson and haven’t had the chance to hear Kacar speak in person, you’ll want to attend her UA Science Café talk Life Beyond Earth: The Science of Astrobiology, which is part of the Series Title: Women in Science: Pioneers to the Present. The talk is on Tuesday November 20 at 6:00 at Magpie’s Gourmet Pizza, 605 N. 4th Ave in downtown Tucson. See details here: https://azscitech.com/scitech_event/downtown-science-cafes-magpies-gourmet-pizza-life-beyond-earth-the-science-of-astrobiology/

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