BCMB Support Serves Research, Teaching Missions
Support matters, whether it be technical, financial, or through mentoring and guidance. For those of you who continue to support the Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) in any form, thank you, thank you, thank you!
In this newsletter, we illustrate how these types of support allow the department to continue its research and teaching missions and to do its part to better serve all Tennesseans. Financial support directly to the department returns on investment in spades, as you will read in the newsletter. You will also meet our newest colleagues, Assistant Professors Martin Engelke and Jie Sun.
At its core, research and teaching in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology span the continuum of the structure and function of macromolecules and their interactions to make all cell types and their subcellular components in their amazing diversity. The technological advances of the last decade span an explosion of high-resolution microscopy approaches, a plethora of genomics platforms and related data analyses, as well as leaps in the power of supercomputing, including the rise of artificial intelligence. At the scale at which BCMB research is conducted, instrumentation and analytical approaches matter a lot. In this newsletter, you will read about research conducted in BCMB that perfectly highlights this.
Training in BCMB shapes diverse careers, as you can see in the alumni spotlights at right. It is not uncommon for our graduates—whether with a BS, MS, or PhD—to go on to pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
As always, please share any comments, suggestions and feedback. Your news is our news, so please share with us! Welcome to the 2025 edition of the newsletter!