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MCB professor Hopi Hoekstra was recently inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), after being officially elected to the organization last year. The NAS is one of…
Congratulations to three juniors from the Chemical and Physical Biology (CPB) program - Alan Gao, Eric Li, and Brittany Petros - who have been chosen to join the…
People frequently operate computer devices such as smartphones that collect user input and process this information to produce outputs on a display or through headphones. Engineers control how…
Yukiko Yamashita obtained her Ph.D from Kyoto University, Japan, completed the postdoctoral fellowship with Minx Fuller at Stanford University (2001-2006), She started her own laboratory at the University…
The genomes of most eukaryotic organisms, including humans, contain large amounts of repetitive DNA organized in the form of heterochromatin. As a result, this specialized chromatin state plays…
Four MCB students have been honored this spring with prestigious awards designed to allow them to continue their academic pursuits at Harvard. Caitlin Lewarch from Hopi Hoekstra’s lab…
The cycle of day and night is one of the most recurrent and predictable environmental change on our planet. Consequently, organisms evolved mechanisms that give them an ability…
MCB professor Hopi Hoekstra was among the Harvard professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) this year. AAAS is one of the oldest honorary…
Parental care is crucial for the survival of mammals, yet species vary widely in the extent and type of care they give to their young. In species where…
One year ago when Parvathi Sreekumar earned her PhD in Crop Physiology at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India, she never would have guessed that today…
