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January 28, 2026

Two MCB-Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellows Awarded Harvard Brain Initiative Fellowships

Two postdoctoral researchers affiliated with MCB have been awarded highly competitive Postdoctoral Pioneer Fellowships from the Harvard Brain Initiative (HBI), recognizing innovative projects that span disciplines, model systems,…

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January 28, 2026

Two MCB-Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellows Awarded Harvard Brain Initiative Fellowships

January 23, 2026

Bongmin (Min) Bae Awarded New American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship

Bongmin (Min) Bae, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of MCB Professor Amanda Whipple, has been awarded a new postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. The two-year…

January 21, 2026

Registration Now Open for the Inaugural MCB BioCamp for Middle Schoolers

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is excited to announce that registration is now open for the inaugural MCB BioCamp for Middle Schoolers, a new hands-on summer…

January 20, 2026

MCB Postdoc Surabhi Sreenivas Awarded ADA Fellowship for Type 2 Diabetes Research

Surabhi Sreenivas, an MCB postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Maxim Prigozhin has been awarded a three-year American Diabetes Association Postdoctoral Fellowship to study how the liver regulates…

(l to r) Aravinthan Samuel, Ishaan Chandok, Yaron Meirovitch, and Jeff Lichtman

December 31, 2025

Smarter Microscopes, Faster Maps: Lichtman Lab’s “SmartEM” Brings AI to Connectomics

A new paper in Nature Methods (PDF) from the labs of MCB’s Jeff Lichtman and Aravinthan Samuel, of the department of physics and Center for Brain Science, introduces…

December 22, 2025

Harvard College Senior Fajr Khan Named 2025 Pakistan Rhodes Scholar

Harvard College senior Fajr Khan, a neuroscience concentrator whose work spans maternal mental health, child psychology, and the biological foundations of psychiatric illness, has been selected as a…

December 18, 2025

MCB Graduate ’24 Edith (Tomi) Siyanbade Awarded Marshall Scholarship

MCB concentrator and 2024 graduate Tomi Siyanbade has been named a Marshall Scholar and will pursue a doctoral degree in Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford. The…

December 15, 2025

Nancy Kleckner Recognized for Pioneering Work in Chromosome Dynamics

Nancy Kleckner, the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology, has been awarded the 2025 Charles E. Helmstetter Prize Lifetime Achievement Award (PDF) in recognition of her groundbreaking research…

(l to r) Naomi Pierce, Wendy Valencia-Montoya, and Nick Bellono

December 11, 2025

Ancient Plants Used Infrared Radiation to Attract Their Pollinators

Long before flowers painted the planet in brilliant colors, some of Earth’s earliest plants were glowing—not with pigment, but with heat. A new study from the lab of…

December 9, 2025

Glenda Espinoza Receives the 2025 Doty–Losick Prize for Exceptional Service

Last Friday, MCB’s once-a-semester Community Forum, hosted by Rachelle Gaudet, took place, and the recipient of this year’s 2025 Doty–Losick Award, Glenda Espinoza, Assistant Supervisor with C&W Facilities…

(l to r) Rachelle Gaudet, Glenda Espinoza, and Holly Fulginiti