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News from 2008

UNDERGRADUATES WIN AWARDS FOR THEIR RESEARCH IN MCB LABS

Two undergraduates working on research projects in MCB laboratoriesKatie Rose Clapham, 2008 (Losick lab) and Elisa Zhang, 2008 (Maniatis lab)were recently awarded Hoopes Prizes for their senior theses.…

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14TH ANNUAL BOSTON BACTERIAL MEETING TO BE HELD AT SCIENCE CENTER JUNE 12-13

The Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) 2008 will take place on Thursday June 12 and Friday June 13 at the Harvard University Science Center. The meeting will feature ~25…

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A COMMON AQUATIC ANIMAL’S GENOME CAN CAPTURE FOREIGN DNA

Eugene A. Gladyshev and Irina R. Arkhipova Long viewed as straitlaced spinsters, sexless freshwater invertebrate animals known as bdelloid rotifers may actually be far more promiscuous than anyone…

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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GAIN FROM HANDS-ON LEARNING THROUGH MCB’S OUTREACH PROGRAM

Dowling lab post-doctoral fellow Farida Emran (second from left) working with CRLS students A satisfied CRLS student (CRLS biology teacher Cate Stabile -left - and Outreach Program Coordinator…

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HUDA ZOGHBI TO GIVE PRATHER LECTURES MAY 7,8,9

This year's Prather Lectures will be delivered by Huda Y. Zoghbi, M.D., Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Neurology and Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and…

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CHROMATIN — A ONE-STOP ENGINEERING SOLUTION FOR COMPACTING DNA AND PARAMETERIZING GENE BEHAVIOR

Erin O'Shea, and Felix Lam If stretched end-to-end, the DNA inside a single human cell would measure approximately 2-3 meters. A fiber of this length is physically compacted…

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RUTH LEHMAN PRESENTS 2008 BLOCH LECTURE

Ruth Lehmann On April 24, 2008, Dr. Ruth Lehmann, Professor of Cell Biology and Director of the Skirball Institute at NYU Medical Center will present the 2008 Bloch…

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FIRST EVER SYMPOSIUM IN ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL BIOLOGY (EPB)

On Saturday, April 5, the Engineering and Physical Biology (EPB) Symposium will be held at the Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave. Speakers from several fields - Physics,…

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SMALL BUT MIGHTY

In a behaving animal, the brain processes information from sensory inputs, and communicates its intentions to muscles via the pattern of activity in descending projection neurons. In vertebrates,…

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