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MCB Welcomes Rachelle Gaudet as New Department Chair

On July 1st, MCB faculty Rachelle Gaudet will succeed Sean Eddy as department chair. “Rachelle will be an outstanding chair for MCB,” Eddy says. “She and I share…

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You Can’t Learn Too Much: How Brain Representations of Complex Odor Mixtures Evolve with Experience [Murthy Lab]

The piriform cortex in the mammalian brain is the largest cortical region that receives direct sensory input from the olfactory bulb as well as complex top-down inputs from…

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Meet Rhino League Commissioner Samantha Finkbeiner

The time-honored BioLabs tradition of summer Rhino League volleyball tournaments will continue this summer under the leadership of Dulac Lab Research Assistant Samantha Finkbeiner, who competed in last…

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Rich Losick to Give Keynote at Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI)’s 20th Anniversary Symposium

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI), a coalition of researchers in departments across the university who study the lives of microbes. MCB…

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Science in the News Brings New Research to Broad Audiences

Science in the News (SITN) is an initiative created to build a communication bridge between science-trainees and a curious public, offering everything from blog posts and graphics to…

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Sensory Receptor Evolution in Octopus and Squid [Bellono Lab]

Cephalopods like octopus and squid are well known for their repertoire of sophisticated behaviors governed by their elaborate nervous systems that are comparable in size to complex vertebrates,…

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Lichtman Lab to Host Open House on April 14!

Students, postdocs, staff, and faculty are invited to join the Lichtman Lab for an Open House on Friday, April 14. The event will include tours of the lab, presentations…

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How Simple Multicellularity Can Evolve into Regulated Reproduction [Murray Lab]

The development of multicellularity has been a remarkable turning point in Earth's biological history, enabling greater morphological diversity and the formation of new organizational structures. This transformation hinged…

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