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A look at Quantitative and Systems Biology
Click to get a glimpse of the QSB program from multiple perspectives! 
Why QSB?
Quantitative and Systems Biology aims to accelerate the pace at which paradigm-shifting discoveries transform biology.
Class of 2025
Meet our 1st year class of 2025!
Joint Genome Institute
A summer program for graduate students at UC Merced to study in labs at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Click to learn more! 

Accelerating Biological Discovery Through Innovation

Whether your passion is to reduce human suffering from disease, mitigate climate-change effects on ecosystems, or advance how we understand, explain and predict living systems, your career will benefit from the unique competitive advantages of a QSB degree.

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August 7, 2025

In addition to being used recreationally, marijuana and cannabidiol, or CBD, one of the cannabinoids produced by the marijuana plant, are thought to have medical benefits such as helping with...

Professor Amemiya, right, with Past President Leslie Pick, left, and President Karen Crow.
August 4, 2025

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Professor Chris Amemiya has been honored by the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (PASEDB) with the Service Award. This prestigious...

Professor Clarissa Nobile investigates the mechanisms of biofilm infections that affect human health.
June 30, 2025

The National Institutes of Health are backing Professor Clarissa Nobile ’s mission to understand the mechanisms by which microbes form biofilms, specifically those that can be hazardous to human...