The Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics (CBMG) offers a highly interactive research environment and outstanding research facilities, including the Bioscience Research Building. Laboratories in CBMG and affiliated departments and institutes at the University of Maryland are active in the following areas of research. 

Each area offers unique opportunities to undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral investigators to perform original research and pursue rigorous training in Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. Visit the undergraduate and graduate program pages to learn more about our degree programs.

Within these areas, we are making important discoveries in gene expression and regulation, signal transduction, organelle biogenesis and traffic, assembly and dynamic interactions between cells, and interaction networks at the whole cell or system level. The approaches we use include state-of-the-art molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. Our long-term goals are to advance knowledge on fundamental aspects of molecular and cellular function and to apply these new insights to the improvement of human life.