This year, James M Berger, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will return to Harvard to present the Doty Lecture, “Still Unscrambling the Puzzle of Biological Machines:…
The MCB Community Forum takes place once each semester. This spring, MCB Chair Rachelle Gaudet will lead the meeting on Friday, April 25, at 4:00 pm in the…
Two postdocs from the Dulac Lab have recently been awarded fellowships. Changwoo Seo was selected for an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, and Mostafizur Rahman received a…
This Saturday, March 29, Harvard PhD candidate Mara Casebeer, a student in Daniel Needleman’s MCB and Applied Physics lab, will give a public Science Spotlights talk at the…
A new study from Naoshige Uchida's MCB lab provides new insight into how the brain processes contingency during associative learning. Published in Nature Neuroscience (PDF), the study demonstrates…
The MCB Community Task Force (CTF) is excited to announce that nominations for the 2025 MCB Mentorship Award are now open! This annual award recognizes individuals within the…
Understanding how neurons encode information is one of the most pressing challenges in neuroscience. A new study from a multidisciplinary team including MCB researchers and those from the…
This year, MCB will host the annual John M. Prather Lectures in Biology, a series of three talks inspired by a bequest to Harvard by the 19th-century Harvard-trained…
When faced with an unfamiliar threat, animals must make split-second decisions: should they flee to avoid potential harm or push forward in pursuit of a reward? This fundamental…
A new study from the Dulac Lab explores how one small brain region called the preoptic area (POA) of the hypothalamus changes through early life in mice. Though…
