Welcome to the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) Graduate Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

We are one of the oldest multidisciplinary graduate programs in the country. Our mission is to train independent research scientists for productive careers by providing a broad foundation in basic science and promoting the study of problems of biomedical importance from a mechanistic perspective. Learn More from our director

 

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Recent News

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Updates and news from our department.
Nov 25

We had a great time at this year’s BCMB Retreat.  A day and a half filled with science, community, exploring,... Read More

Upcoming Events

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Seminars and events. Know what’s coming

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Recent Accomplishments

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Our students accomplish great things

2025 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention

2025 NSF GRFP Award

2025 Young Investigators Day: The Nupur Dinesh Thekdi Research Award

2025 Young Investigators Day: The Alicia Showalter Reynolds Research Award

2025 Young Investigators Day: The Bae Gyo Jung Research Award

Recent Publications

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Our latest research and discoveries.

Lyu Z, Yang X, Yahashiri A, Ha S, McCausland JW, Chen X, Britton BM, Weiss DS, Xiao J., 2025, Third track model for coordination of septal peptidoglycan synthesis and degradation by FtsN in Escherichia coli, Nat Microbiol., 10(6):1521-1534. doi: 10.1038/s41564-025-02011-w. PMID: 40425829  PubMed

Huang EJ, Parksong J, Peterson AF, Torres F, Regot S, Bever GS., 2025, Refined Phylogenetic Ortholog Inference Reveals Coevolutionary Expansion of the MAPK Signaling Network Through Finetuning of Pathway Specificity, J Mol Evol., doi: 10.1007/s00239-025-10254-8. PMID: 40447942  PubMed

Watkins L, Li M, Wu B., 2025, Translation elongation: measurements and applications, RNA Biol., 22(1):1-10. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2025.2504727. PMCID: PMC12087489  PubMed