Harvard University COVID-19 updates
Susan Mango After developmental biologist Susan Mango received a surprise call announcing her MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (casually dubbed a “genius grant”), congratulatory emails streamed in from New York,…
(l-r) Natalie Funk, Markus Meister, and Catherine Dulac (l-r) Itay Budin and Markus Meister Two MCB graduate students were recognized for their academic achievement at MCB's 2009…
Florian Engert Neurobiologist Florian Engert has been promoted to become a tenured Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. “Like many things, tenure is probably most…
Prof. Engert (second from left) and Dr. Abeanu (right) with a few students from the course. Dr. Albeanu (left) and Prof. Engert making an adjustment to the microscope.…
Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) 2009 will take place Thursday June 18 – Friday June 19 at the Harvard University Science Center. The meeting will feature ~25 oral and…
(L-R) Kevin Peterson, Kaloyan Tsanov, and Yuichi Nishi Kaloyan Tsanov has been awarded the Lawrence J. Henderson Prize for his thesis, An Embryonic Stem Cell Based System for…
(L-R) Albert Li, Alana Mendelsohn, Sara Trowbridge, and Brady Weissbound Four undergraduates - Brandon Weissbourd in Catherine Dulac's lab, Alana Mendelsohn in Jeff Lichtman's lab, Sara Trowbridge in…
A moment’s introspection reveals that our perceptions and actions are strongly affected by our behavioral states. Whether you are sleepy, awake, distracted or vigilant will affect how you…
Briana Burton Each time the world girds itself for a new epidemic, scientists give the public a refresher course on how genes jump species, giving us flu strains…
Co-authors Soni Lacefield, Derek T. C. Lau, and Andrew W. Murray Errors in chromosome segregation can often lead to human disease. For example, chromosomal instability is a hallmark…
