MCDB Spotlights

A cross-disciplinary foundation in biological science, while allowing students the flexibility to choose their own path of inquiry.
Surenna Pecchia is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Max Wilson’s lab at UC Santa Barbara. She is from Chelmsford, Massachusetts and received her B.S. in Biology from UMass Lowell.
Annalise is a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Barbara in the Morrissey Lab. She was awarded the Karl Storz Imaging fellowship in her second year, and her research was recently featured on the NIH Director’s Blog.
Studies the role of septins in collective border cell migration in the Drosophila ovary.