In a new study in Neuron (PDF), researchers from Naoshige Uchida’s MCB lab provide an unprecedented look at how the brain makes foraging decisions—choices between sticking with a…
News from 2025
Camille Testard Named Branco Weiss Fellow for Trailblazing Research on Social Resilience to Ecological Disasters
Harvard Junior Fellow Camille Testard has been awarded the highly competitive Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science, a prestigious five-year award that supports exceptional early-career researchers with…
Early Exposure to Anesthesia May Shift Brain Development
MCB researchers show GABA-based sedation in newborns speeds up brain development, confirming decades of animal research in a human cohort. A new longitudinal study led by MCB’s Takao…
How Wild Mice Outsmart Predators: Evolution Tweaks the Brain, Not the Senses
A new Nature study from the lab of OEB and MCB’s Hopi Hoekstra reveals that wild mice from different environments use distinct defensive strategies when faced with threats—differences that…
You Are What Your Great-Grandparents Ate
What if a gene program evolved that could predict the future? Would organisms use it to boost their reproductive success? Recent work from the MCB lab of Craig…
Andrew Murray Elected to EMBO Membership
MCB Professor Andrew Murray has been elected as an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), a distinction that honors more than 2,100 leading scientists from…
Carolyn Elya Receives Prestigious Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience
MCB congratulates Carolyn Elya, Assistant Professor of MCB and affiliate of the Center for Brain Science, on receiving a Klingenstein Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. This competitive early-career award,…
Kazuki Nagashima Wins Charles H. Hood Foundation Award to Investigate Early-Life Dietary Triggers of Immune Tolerance
The Charles H. Hood Foundation has awarded MCB Assistant Professor Kazuki Nagashima a Child Health Research Award, supporting his investigation into a fundamental—but poorly understood—process that may hold…
Daniel Cardozo Pinto: Decoding the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning
Daniel Cardozo Pinto, soon to be appointed a Harvard Junior Fellow, represents a compelling new voice in systems neuroscience. His research, grounded in a profound curiosity about the…
Solar-Powered Thieves: New Study Uncovers Animal Organelle That Sustains Photosynthesis from Stolen Chloroplasts
They look like crawling leaves, but these sea slugs are anything but ordinary. MCB Professor Nick Bellono calls them “the weirdest animal we’ve ever studied”—a bold claim from…
