Undergraduate Students
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Our undergraduate students thrive in an atmosphere that promotes exploration and collaboration across all areas of research and study. Our professors have an infectious passion for instruction and strive to teach each course better than it’s ever been taught before.
Learn, Discover, Innovate
We are a collaborative, inclusive, diverse, supportive, and focused community dedicated to research, teaching, and service. We explore a wide range of fundamental biological questions with a focus on molecular cell biology at all levels, from molecular structure to human disease. Join us.
Graduate Students
Graduate training is interdisciplinary, collaborative, and intense, giving our students the research and communication skills they need for a successful career. Our faculty share a deep commitment to education for all students.
Cyrille Teforlack (left) discussing his project in the Reddien Lab on flatworm eye regeneration with attendees of the BSG-MSRP-Bio Poster session, including Department of Biology Head Amy Keating (right).
Broadening Participation
Our outreach programs seek to make the field of science more inclusive by sharing MIT’s intellectual wealth and cutting-edge resources.
Heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes. Credit: Alexander Auld and Laurie Boyer
Research
For over 50 years, we have played a central role in the growth of molecular life sciences and the revolution in molecular and cellular biology, genetics, genomics, and computational biology.
Toxoplasma gondii parasites. Credit: Clare Harding.
Research
For over 50 years, we have played a central role in the growth of molecular life sciences and the revolution in molecular and cellular biology, genetics, genomics, and computational biology.
An atomic model of a protein. Credit: Ellen Zhong.
Research
For over 50 years, we have played a central role in the growth of molecular life sciences and the revolution in molecular and cellular biology, genetics, genomics, and computational biology.
Research
For over 50 years, we have played a central role in the growth of molecular life sciences and the revolution in molecular and cellular biology, genetics, genomics, and computational biology.
[## David Bartel
David Bartel studies molecular pathways that regulate eukaryotic gene expression by affecting the stability or translation of mRNAs.](https://biology.mit.edu/profile/david-bartel/)
At the core of problem-solving: Stuart Levine ’97, director of MIT’s BioMicro Center, keeps departmental researchers at the forefront of systems biology
Recent Publications
AF2BIND: predicting small-molecule binding sites using the pair representation of AlphaFold2.
## Studying the genetic basis of disease to explore fundamental biological questions
## How changes on the Y chromosome may make species reproductively incompatible
## Whitehead Institute Member Jonathan Weissman joins global Cancer Grand Challenges team
Events
- Tuesday, Mar 24, 2026 - 11:00AMThesis Defense: Oceane Marescal
McGovern Auditorium, Whitehead Institute - Tuesday, Mar 24, 2026 - 2:00PMPostdoc Coffee Hour
68-164; please bring a reusable mug - Thursday, Mar 26, 2026 - 2:00PMSpecial Seminar: Daniel Rosel, Charles University
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Events
- Tuesday, Mar 24, 2026Thesis Defense: Oceane Marescal
McGovern Auditorium, Whitehead Institute - Tuesday, Mar 24, 2026Postdoc Coffee Hour
68-164; please bring a reusable mug - Thursday, Mar 26, 2026Special Seminar: Daniel Rosel, Charles University
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## Alumni Spotlight: Pia Banerjee, ’05
## New insights into a hidden process that protects cells from harmful mutations
## Richard Hynes, a pioneer in the biology of cellular adhesion, dies at 81