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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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Professor Xuan Zhang
September 8, 2025

As nations cut emissions that once fueled urban smog, scientists are discovering unexpected chemistry taking place in the atmosphere. UC Merced Professor Xuan Zhang is leading a project to uncover...

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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, former interim director of the Health Sciences Research Institute, has been honored by the Pan American Society for Evolutionary...