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News from 2020

MCB Postdocs Awarded Fellowships from the NIH, MBB Interfaculty Initiative, and the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund

Four postdocs in MCB labs have recently been awarded fellowships that will support their research in biophysics, cell biology, and neuroscience. Two of the postdocs were chosen for…

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Spotlight on Harvard Junior Fellow William Allen

Harvard Junior Fellow William Allen and Professor Xiaowei Zhuang of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology have been chosen as winners of the 2020 Star-Friedman Challenge, which…

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Recent MCO Alum Vayu Maini Rekdal Recognized with International Birnstiel Award

MCO Graduate Program alum Vayu Maini Rekdal (Ph.D. ‘20, Balskus Lab) has been chosen as one of six recipients of the 2020 International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Studies…

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Kaelyn Brown (Neuro ‘21) and Ashley Cooper (Neuro & Anthro ‘21) Honored for their Work with Science Club for Girls

Neuroscience concentrators Kaelyn Brown (’21) and Ashley Cooper (’21), who has a joint concentration in anthropology, will receive the 2020 Catalyst Award from the educational outreach organization Science…

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Doeke Hekstra Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

MCB and Applied Physics faculty member Doeke Hekstra has been chosen to receive the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, as part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward program. The…

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Highlights from MCB BIOpalooza 2020

Last week, MCB students, staff, postdocs, and faculty convened in Zoom sessions to swap ideas and bond as a community through MCB BIOpalooza 2020, the department’s first-ever virtual…

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MCB BIOpalooza: Meet the Incoming First-year Graduate Students!

This year’s virtual retreat, MCB BIOpalooza, will provide opportunities for the MCB community to meet the new incoming graduate students (and vice versa) through breakout sessions and through…

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SROH (Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard) Goes Virtual

With Harvard’s lab spaces closed, hosting undergraduate interns through the Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH) program this year seemed like an impossibility. But the SROH leadership found…

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