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Welcome to the Biochemistry Department WEB site. Our Department is the administrative home to 14 faculty members , approximately 60 graduate students (both Ph.D. and M.S. programs), 400 undergraduate Biochemistry majors, 11 postdoctoral fellows, and 25 support staff. Our major mission is to engage in basic biochemical and molecular biological research and instruction.
The faculty of the department is responsible for presentation of the undergraduate major in biochemistry , which has an area of emphasis in chemistry, biology or medicine. The faculty of the department, in collaboration with 28 Cooperating Faculty in five other departments, constitutes the Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology which is responsible for presentation of the Ph.D. and M.S. programs. Areas of research specialization represented within the Biochemistry Department and the Graduate Program span contemporary biochemistry from the cellular to the molecular level and include the following areas of concentration: molecular biology, physical biochemistry, molecular endocrinology, plant biochemistry & molecular biology, signal transduction, and biomedical research.