(l to r) Guillaume Witz, Mara Prentiss, Nancy Kleckner, Beth Weiner, and Jay K. Fisher The E. coli chromosome is a single circular unit which, if stretched out,…
News from 2013
ERIC LANDER TO GIVE 2013 PRATHER LECTURES APRIL 24-26
The annual John M. Prather Lectures in Biology will be presented by Eric Lander, the founding director and core member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard…
FIVE MCB UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS RECEIVE NSF FELLOWHIP IN 2013
(l to r) Katherine Xue, Janet Song, and Rachel Moda On behalf of the entire Department, I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the following students…
WORKING HARD OR HARDLY WORKING? [UCHIDA LAB]
How many decisions did you have to make today? From the choice of breakfast, to the vigor of brushing our teeth, we can effortlessly make moment to moment…
FOUR MCB GRADUATE STUDENTS RECEIVE NSF FELLOWSHIPS IN 2013
(l to r) Alicia Darnell, Kyobi Skutt-Kakaria, Laura Bagamery, and Mackenzie Amoroso Four first-year MCB graduate students have been awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships from the National…
THIS YEARS MICROBIAL SCIENCES INITIATIVE (MSI) SYMPOSIUM MARKS 10 YEARS OF THE MSI! (SATURDAY, APRIL 13)
Microbes (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists) are ubiquitous on earth and affect every part of our lives. Yet they are mostly invisible, and the vast majority of…
HOW SWEET IT IS (TO BE STUCK BY YOU) [MURRAY LAB]
John Koschwanez (l) and Andrew Murray How do microbes evolve to utilize nutrients that they can't import? We used engineering and experimental evolution of budding yeast to study…
ETHAN GARNER CHOSEN AS SEARLE SCHOLAR
Ethan Garner, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, has been named a Searle Scholar. He is one of 15 exceptional young faculty nationwide to receive this prestigious…
