Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Program

The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology program offers students the opportunity to study life processes at the molecular level and gain an understanding of biological organisms from a chemical and physical basis.

Major RequirementsHonors Program
BMB Seminar Series

BMB Seminar Series

The BMB Seminar series features presentations by students in the Senior Seminar course. Current students are actively conducting research with BMB faculty and will showcase their research experiences and findings at these Tuesday seminars.

Gottwald Science Center

Gottwald Science Center

The Gottwald Center for the Sciences is the home of the biology, chemistry and physics departments.

With 22 teaching laboratories and 50 student-faculty research laboratories, the space includes lab facilities for organic chemistry, biochemistry and neuroscience; a quantitative science center; a nuclear magnetic resonance center; and a digital biological imaging center.

Chemists in the Kitchen!

In the latest episode, Julie Pollock, associate professor of the chemistry, and colleagues from other institutions test which method is best — deep fry, air fry, or pan fry. Dr. Pollock leads a lab that studies breast cancer and inflammatory disease development and progression.

"Chemists in the Kitchen" is a YouTube series by the National Academy of Science that follows a rotating cast of chemists who cook, experiment, and tinker with all types of recipes and ingredients. 

Dr. Pollock was also featured on the Quick Pickles and Fermentation episode. 

Faculty Highlights

Dr. Eugene Wu
Wu and Undergraduate Students Published

Eugene Wu, associate professor of biology & biochemistry, along with Alex Robertson, '24, Henry Zhu, '24, Corina Stasiak, '24, Laura Murray-Nerger, '15, Emily Romanoff, '16, and Jesse Woon, '16, published "CD46 Is a Protein Receptor for Human Adenovirus Type 64" in Viruses.

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Dr. Carol Parish
Parish & Undergraduate Students Published

Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with undergraduate students Aamy Bakry, ’24,  Joshua Pandian, ’23, Khanh Vu, ’23, Idil Cazimoglu, ’14, and John Mancini, ’11, and Department of Chemistry collaborator, Martel Zeldin, visiting research scholar, published “Conformational Analysis of Oligomeric Models of Siloxane, Silazane and Siloxazane Ladder Polymers” in Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials.

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Dr. Carol Parish
Parish & Undergraduate Students Published

Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with undergraduate students  Khanh Vu, ’23, Josh Pandian, ’23, Boyi Zhang, ‘16, Christina Annas, ‘16, Anna J. Parker, ‘11, John S. Mancini, ‘11, Evan B. Wang, ‘09, Diomedes Saldana-Greco, ‘10, Emily S. Nelson, ’12, and Greg Springsted,’10, published “Multireference Averaged Quadratic Coupled Cluster (MR-AQCC) Study of the Geometries and Energies for ortho-, meta- and para-Benzyne” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.

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Dr. Carol Parish
Parish & Undergraduate Students Published

Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, along with undergraduate students Aamy A. Bakry, ’24, and Matthew G. Fanelli, ’09, and Department of Chemistry collaborators, Kelling Donald, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences, and Martel Zeldin, visiting research scholar, published “Dative Bonding in Quasimetallatranes Containing Group 15 Donors (Y = N, P, and As) and Group 14 Acceptors (M = Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb)” in Inorganic Chemistry.

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Contact Us

Mailing address:
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Gottwald Center for the Sciences
138 UR Drive
University of Richmond, VA 23173

Program Coordinator:
Dr. Julie Pollock
Academic Administrative Specialist: Emily Phaup