Warwick’s Centre of Mechanochemical Cell Biology is defined by its scientific focus on the machineries of biological movement.

CMCB investigators are drawn from 5 different Warwick departments.

Our mission is to galvanise research at Warwick in this area.

To do this, we pursue 3 goals:

· Goal 1 · is to provide an optimal environment for our science. We aim to optimize both our physical and our intellectual environments. We are fortunate to have excellent lab space. Members of the CMCB strive to acquire equipment that is second to none, to share it freely and to press for technical support that optimally facilitates the science. We talk to each other about science, we constructively criticize each other’s grant applications, we host seminars and workshops. We aim to recognise every contribution. We collaborate creatively, both internally and externally. We constantly, actively, seek to improve our research environment.

· Goal 2 · is to develop technology, both hardware and software. Our scientific work often requires the creation of new hardware and/or software. We actively pursue open science, not only by publishing open source, but also by making the technology we create open source and freely available.

· Goal 3 · is to train the mechanochemical cell biologists of the future. Many of us have skill-sets that bridge scientific disciplines, and we aim to transmit these skills to the mechanochemical cell biologists of the future. Most recently, CMCB has been pivotal for the startup of an innovative new course in which undergraduates address open research problems.

Please have a look around the CMCB website. We want to show you the amazing living machinery that we are working on!