BS in Cell and Molecular Biology

The department of Biology and Marine Science offers a major in Cellular and Molecular Biology (C.M.B.). The C.M.B. major focuses on the mechanistic study of life at the cellular and molecular level and will provide students with laboratory competencies needed for a scientific career or graduate/professional schools. Relevant skills covered in this major include:

• Laboratory safety procedures
• Agarose and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
• Genetic transformation of bacteria
• Purification and analysis of proteins and DNA
• Gene and protein sequence analysis
• Fluorescence microscopy
• Human and bacterial cell culturing
• Reading and analysis of primary literature
• Generating, analyzing, and presenting data in a variety of formats