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Andres Leschziner Victoria D'Souza The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce the promotion of Victoria D'Souza and Andres Leschziner to Associate Professor. "The MCB…
Hopi Hoekstra The three heads on the wall of Hopi Hoekstra’s office belong to the same species of blesboks, a South African antelope with a characteristic blaze on…
Sharad Ramanathan Florian Engert Two MCB faculty members, Florian Engert and Sharad Ramanathan, are recipients of the 2011 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program. This program supports individual scientists…
(L-R) Vlad Denic, Fei Wang, Matthew Tung Eukaryotic cells target a large fraction of proteins synthesized in the cytosol to a number of different intracellular membrane compartments (organelles).…
Brain functions, such as language, are shaped by experience during windows of heightened plasticity in early life. For example, children raised in an English- speaking environment will easily…
(L-R) John Koschwanez and Andrew Murray Many unicellular organisms secrete enzymes that release nutrients from their environment. But most of the nutrients can't be captured by the cell's…
Erin K. O'Shea and Zambo Erin O'Shea is a world leader in studies of gene regulation, but a world champion? That’s a title reserved for her German…
Erin K. O'Shea and Xu Zhou Gene expression is controlled by a class of proteins called transcription factors. These proteins usually bind to short 6-8 base pair DNA…
Sharad Ramanathan Sharad Ramanathan, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Assistant Professor of Applied Physics (SEAS) has been selected as one of 22 Pew Scholars in…
A fundamental question in developmental biology is how multi-potent cells choose a fate. While we know a lot about how cell states are maintained through growing amounts of…
