Welcome

The Committee on Developmental Biology (CDB) is a degree-granting unit within the Molecular Biosciences cluster, which also includes units studying Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and Cell Biology. The academic units of the cluster share a core curriculum and a common admissions process.

The Committee on Developmental Biology takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding all aspects of the fundamental question of how a single cell, the fertilized egg, ultimately produces a complex fully patterned adult organism. More than thirty faculty from both basic science and clinical departments in the Division of Biological Sciences belong to the Committee on Developmental Biology. Their research uses traditional model species including nematode worms, fruit-flies, Arabidopsis, zebrafish, amphibians, chick and mouse as well as non-model systems such as acorn worms and cephalopods.

The goal of the Committee on Developmental Biology is to provide a challenging, stimulating and collegial environment where students can become independent researchers.