UCSD Layoff from Career Appointment: Apply by 05/14/2024 for consideration with preference for rehire. All layoff applicants should contact their Employment Advisor. Special Selection Applicants: Apply by 05/16/2024. Eligible Special Selection clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.DEPARTMENT OVERVIEWThe Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine consists of research laboratories in the fields of cell and developmental biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, marine natural products, microbiology and physiology of marine organisms. Cell and developmental biology: algal biofuels, biochemistry of fertilization and embryogenesis of sea urchins, developmental genetics of amphioxus