Joshua Sanes contributes optimism (and a great deal of research) to an August 7 Science magazine article on the longstanding controversy of neuronal classification. While skeptics suspect we…
News from 2015
VENKI MURTHY ORGANIZES OLFACTORY SUMMIT IN SANTA BARBARA
Venki Murthy returned this week from his summer "vacation" in balmy Santa Barbara, CA, where he coordinated an eight-week program on the ins and outs of olfaction. Hosted…
VLAD DENIC RECEIVES EARLY CAREER LIFE SCIENTIST AWARD
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) recently selected Vlad Denic, a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as the recipient of this year’s Early…
BESTE MUTLU WINS AAUW’S INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP
Beste Mutlu (l) and Susan Mango Beste Mutlu, a third year graduate student in Susan Mango's lab, has earned a one-year research fellowship from the American Association of University…
THE ELEGANCE OF DENDRITES AND WHY IT MATTERS [SANES LAB]
Joshua Sanes (l) and Dimitar Kostadinov The dendritic processes of neurons form elaborate branched arbors that are stereotyped among neurons of a specific type but differ markedly among…
DIEGO BAPTISTA AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS HHMI GILLIAM FELLOWSHIP
Diego Baptista, a doctoral candidate in Harvard University’s Molecules, Cells, and Organisms Program (MCO), was recently accepted into the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced…
RECONSTRUCTING THE BRAINS WIRING DIAGRAM [LICHTMAN LAB]
(l to r) Jeff Lichtman, Josh Morgan, Jose Conchello, Daniel Berger, and Richard Schalek This paper describes a suite of automated technologies designed to probe the structure of…
HARVARDX LEARNING LABS FOR KIDS WITH DAVID COX
As an extension of his HarvardX for Allston program, Fundamentals of Neuroscience, David Cox spent last Friday at the Harvard Ed Portal with a roomful of cockroaches and…
POISED FOR ACTION [MANGO LAB]
Hui-Ting Hsu (l) and Susan Mango Talk to any teenager and they will tell you the many ways they want to be independent from their parents. However, the…
