The Biology Department believes that the undergraduate research experience is an important aspect of a student's education. The Biology faculty at Iona College maintains active research programs in neurobiology, cell-signaling, plant molecular biology, and population ecology, studying organisms from baker's yeast to the common reed plant to human brain cells. For brief descriptions of the research performed by each of the faculty members, please refer to the "Faculty" section of the webpage and click on an individual faculty member.

We encourage our students to perform research during their undergraduate careers, where they learn important skills (technical and intellectual) that will benefit them as they pursue careers in medicine, education, basic and applied science, as well as any other career they choose. The Biology students are not only given opportunities to perform research, they also present their research at national and regional conferences (see below) and have been authors in peer-reviewed journals.

Students Work Hard in the Lab
Daniel Lipus ('12)	Maria Skeivys ('14)

Marcia Correa ('13)

Students Presenting Research at Science Conferences:

View presentors from the annual Northeast Regional Convention of Beta Beta Beta »

Marcia Correa ('13) presenting her poster at the 44th Annual Fall MACUB (Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists) Conference held on October 29, 2011 at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ.

Ms. Correa was awarded First Place in the Biochemistry section for her poster presentation, 'Determination of the Fus3p MAP kinase phosphorylation sites in the formin Bni1p during mating response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.' Ms. Correa is an Honors student performing research under the mentorship of Dr. Eric Muller