BYIs Yingjie Zhang And Mikael Backlund Part Of A New Center That Received $30M From NSF

2021 BYI Yingjie Zhang, PhD and 2023 BYI Mikael Backlund, PhD, and collaborators received $30 million from the National Science Foundation to establish the new NSF Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology. The center will develop whole-cell models to transform our understanding of how cells function and share that knowledge with diverse communities through the popular computer game Minecraft.