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News from 2018

CPB Concentrator Brittany Petros Awarded Fulbright Grant

This summer, CPB concentrator Brittany Petros will travel to Lisbon, Portugal as a Fulbright Scholar. In the lab, she’ll be investigating the connection between nutrition and the nervous…

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Catherine Dulac First to be Selected Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences

  Catherine Dulac faculty profile Dulac lab website

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E Pluribus Unum: One Brain from Many Cells [Schier Lab]

In papers in Nature Biotechnology and Current Biology, the Schier lab reports how thousands of single-cell transcriptomes can be used to define cell types and reconstruct lineage relationships…

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Scaling Up the Search for Neuronal Wiring Molecules [Sanes Lab]

Neural circuits in the mammalian brain comprise hundreds to millions of neurons, connected with each other in complex and highly specific ways. Studies over the past few decades…

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Using X-rays to Quantify Lesions and Find Electrodes in the Brain [Cox Lab]

Lesioning (damaging) a particular brain region is one of the most important methods in neuroscience for determining the function of that region. Many groundbreaking discoveries were made through…

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MCB Grad Students and Postdocs Recognized for Outstanding Teaching!

Each semester, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning honors outstanding teaching fellows, teaching assistants, and course assistants with the Q Award. The Q Awardees are chosen…

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EPB to Hold Annual Symposium, Saturday, April 7

On Saturday, April 7, the annual Engineering and Physical Biology (EPB) Symposium will be held in Room B101 of the Northwest Building, 52 Oxford St. Speakers from constituent…

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Understanding How Small Curved Filaments Create Rod-shaped Cells [Garner Lab]

One of the simplest and highly conserved bacterial shapes is a rod. In order to grow, rod-shaped bacteria restrict their growth so that they maintain a constant width…

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For Want of a Template [Rich Losick and Jan Pero]

Rich came to Harvard from MIT in 1969 as a Junior Fellow, setting up shop on the third floor of the Biological Laboratories in space kindly provided by…

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FAS Center for Systems Biology Reflects on Two Decades of Research Camaraderie

One morning in 2006, then-Bauer-Fellow Kevin Verstrepen was presenting his lab’s work on yeasts and maltose fermentation to the other Bauer Fellows, a small group of early-career scientists…

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