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Postdoc Olakunle Jaiyesimi of the Extavour Lab is using metabolomics, or the study of an organism’s global metabolic products, to address questions about the effects of the environment…
MCO graduate student Alan Baez Vazquez is investigating how immune cells called macrophages contribute to repair of damaged lung tissue in Ruth Franklin’s lab. Franklin is an Assistant…
OEB and MCB faculty Cassandra Extavour and her research into the origins of multicellular life are featured in a recent story in Quanta Magazine. Interviewed by Claudia Dreifus,…
Harvard undergraduate Craig McFarland (‘25), was recently elected to the Society for Neuroscience’s 2024 Early Career Policy Ambassador program (ECPA), one of just ten individuals selected nationwide and…
It’s common to speak of “the structure of a protein,” but proteins are dynamic molecules that move and shapeshift. A protein can be described as 1-dimensional polymer –…
Work from the lab of Jeeyun Chung, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, on lipid droplets’ roles in neurodegenerative diseases will be supported by a Chan Zuckerberg…
The MCB Community Task Force (CTF) on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) hopes to identify inequalities that exist in our community and action items that we can…
Dominic Mao, Molecular and Cellular Biology Lecturer and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies for Chemical and Physical Biology (CPB) and MCB, has been voted one of the senior…
Understanding how functional neuronal circuits are established during development is a fundamental challenge in neuroscience. During development, the complex neuronal circuitry of the brain arises from limited information…
As they navigate their environment, animals readily learn to repeat actions which yield reward and avoid actions which cause punishment. This kind of learning is especially efficient when…
