Welcome to the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at the Health Sciences Campus of Tufts University. Our department serves the Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine and participates in the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.

Members of the department are actively engaged in research on fundamental and medically related problems in microbiology and molecular biology. They include the molecular genetics of bacterial pathogens and their interaction with host cells, the mode of action of antibiotics and drug resistance, the intracellular organization of bacteria, the molecular genetics of transcriptional regulation, the initiation and termination of DNA replication, mechanisms of virus replication and gene expression, and the mechanism of meiotic recombination in yeast.

The teaching program of our department acquaints medical and dental students with the basic concepts of microbiology and molecular biology and mechanisms of host-parasite interactions. Our courses are offered during the first and second years of the medical and dental curricula.

Our faculty members also participate in interdepartmental graduate programs in Molecular Microbiology, Genetics, Immunology, and Biochemistry. These programs train students for the PhD and the combined MD-PhD degrees. Advanced courses offered by these programs are available to qualified graduate, medical, and dental students.

Opportunities to pursue research projects with faculty mentors during the school year or during the summer are open to medical, dental and undergraduate students from Tufts and other universities. Contact the department chair or individual faculty members for additional information.