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NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Advancing knowledge about cells

The NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology will create whole-cell models to transform our understanding of how cells function. With cutting-edge imaging and simulation tools, the center will advance the study of healthy and diseased cells; accelerate research into gene expression, metabolism, and division; and share science with communities of all ages through a partnership with the popular computer game Minecraft.

Model and minecraft model of minimal cells
Yeast model

A new paradigm

We're forging a new scientific understanding of the cell that will have implications for human health, photosynthesis, evolution, and more.

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Model made with Lattice Microbes

Celebrate the opening of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology

Join our leadership, as well as leaders from the Beckman Institute and the University of Illinois, for a kickoff and fall retreat. It's scheduled for Monday, Nov. 20, at the Beckman Institute.

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