Cell Biology

Who We Are

The cell is the fundamental unit of all life on earth. Cell Biology therefore defines the very center of all efforts to understand all aspects of biology and human disease. Cell Biology seeks to understand a continuum that starts with elucidating the molecular basis of how cells are constructed, how the thousands of cell types accomplish their individual tasks, and finally how these different cells cooperate to form tissues, systems, and organisms.

Cell biologists thus represent a diverse group, conversant in and committed to a wide variety disciplines: from genetics to biochemistry, from immunology to neurobiology, from development to informatics, from genomics to clinical medicine.

Cell biologists must also be clever, ready to develop and apply novel approaches to a limitless range of problems as they emerge. We rarely do the same thing twice.

Welcome to the most central — and the most exciting — field in all of the biological and biomedical sciences. Our website will help to show you why.

News & Events

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Current News & Events

2007 Holiday Party Photographs

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2007 Cell Biology Retreat Photographs

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Birth Announcement:            Congratulations Dan & Amy Williams 

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Derek Toomre, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, has received a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award      

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