News from 2025

Join Us for MCB’s May Corona Bash Party on May 4th

This event—featuring food, beverages, music, games, and coronavirus-shaped piňatas—will take place in the BioLabs courtyard from noon until 4:00 pm on May 4. Everyone in the MCB community–CPB,…

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Murthy Lab Teams with Brazilian Neuroscientists to Build a FabLab in Belo Horizonte

MCB faculty Venki Murthy, along with neuroscientists Grace Schennato Pereira Moraes and Marcio Moraes at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)  in Brazil, is part of a collaboration…

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Who is Watching the Watchman on Yeast Peroxisome? [Denic Lab]

In a new paper published in eLife, my colleagues in the Denic Lab and I investigated how budding yeast (S. cerevisiae) breaks down damaged peroxisome organelles through a…

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Star-Friedman Challenge Funds Project Led by MCB Professor Max Prigozhin

MCB Faculty Maxim Prigozhin has been awarded funding through the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research. Each year, the Star-Friedman Challenge invites Harvard faculty to propose interdisciplinary research…

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Staff Spotlight: Clark Magnan, Biology Teaching Labs Manager

Life sciences lab courses require far more than textbooks and paper. Prepwork for a lab course may include ordering reagents or components, mixing solutions, arranging or assembling lab…

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Postdocs Kevin Dalton, Xiaotang Lu, and Sara Pintos dos Santos Matias Receive Research Fellowships

Three postdocs from MCB labs have been awarded fellowships that will support ambitious research projects. Kevin M. Dalton of the Hekstra Lab has received a Career Award at…

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