Community-scale Science.
Data-driven Research.
Transformative Results.
The U.S. National Science Foundation National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS) is catalyzing multidisciplinary scientific teams to synthesize a myriad of publicly available data to answer the most fundamental questions in molecular and cellular biology, stimulating novel questions, answering long-standing mysteries, recruiting diverse talent, and training the next-generation workforce of data savvy scientists.
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News
$20M NSF grant will support center to study how complex biological processes arise
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will support the establishment and operation of the National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS) at Penn State. The center will enable research that uses existing, publicly available data to
NCEMS Is Hiring
The National Synthesis Center for Emergence in Cellular and Molecular Sciences (NCEMS) supported by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State is seeking a Project Manager to join our highly motivated and dedicated leadership team. The center will be at the forefront of synthesizing diverse publicly available
Annual Summit
Fall 2024
A 4-day Summit meeting will bring together community participants to identify the most pressing synthesis research opportunities, challenges and opportunities of the next decade, and set a research agenda for NCEMS. Participants will include faculty, postdocs, graduate students, MSI affiliated members, and representatives of data repositories from around the world.
Our Science
NCEMS accelerates discoveries in molecular and cellular sciences, combining the latest data science and computational methods, the most relevant publicly available data, with scientists from diverse disciplines.
Participate
Join a community driven to collaborate, ask novel questions, and impact the fields of molecular and cellular sciences through community-scale synthesis.
Events
From our annual summit meeting to education and training events, to hack-a-thons and bootcamps, building community is a core component of our mission.
