Harvard University COVID-19 updates
On March 24th students from Mott Hall Bridges Academy (MHBA) in Brownsville, Brooklyn visited Harvard to explore the university, learn about the college admissions process, and participate in…
MCO student Carolina Salguero from the D'Souza lab will speak at this year's Harvard Horizons symposium on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 6:00 PM.The event wlll take place…
In vertebrate nervous systems, vast interconnected networks of neurons underlie brain function. Connectomics is a new field that attempts to map out these networks. At the forefront of…
Vayu Maini Rekdal, a first year PhD student in the Molecules, Cells, and Organisms (MCO) program, has brought a passion for kitchen experimentation to Cambridge. He is the…
Cassandra Extavour may be the only professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology who is also a recorded musician. Her classically-trained soprano voice can be heard…
“Often people tell me I’m doing two disparate things: science and theater,” but neurobiology concentrator Sean Hardy ’16 doesn’t see it that way. After a good conversation—facilitated, perhaps,…
Dopamine plays an outsized role in the public imagination, acting as a ‘happiness’ chemical, the drug that causes psychosis, or the pill that allows frozen people to move…
Neir Eshel, a recent PhD graduate from the Uchida Lab, will deliver this year’s Larry Katz Memorial Prize Lecture at the Cold Spring Harbor conference on Neuronal Circuits…
To avoid injury, most organisms react reflexively to the approach of incoming objects. For instance, humans will, without thinking, dodge an oncoming car or bat away a small…
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) has awarded Nancy Kleckner, the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the 2016 Thomas…
