Newly appointed MCB and Applied Physics Professor Max Prigozhin builds microscopes. His long-term goal is to develop a multicolor electron microscopy method that will reveal the dynamics of…
News from 2025
Seven Postdocs Awarded Prestigious Fellowships to Further Their Research
Seven MCB postdocs have recently garnered fellowships that will enable research into the brain, behavior, and genetics. Two of the postdocs obtained fellowships from the NIH. Bushra Raj…
Holiday Gift Drive and Bake Sale Benefit Rosie’s Place Women’s Shelter
For the second year in a row, items donated to the annual MCB gift drive went to Rosie’s Place, a women’s shelter in downtown Boston. This year’s drive,…
Six Seniors Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society!
Each fall, the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) honor society inducts 48 seniors with exceptional academic track records. This year’s “Senior 48” includes CPB concentrators…
Neuroscience Concentrator Olivia McGinnis (‘20) to Study Neuroscience as a Rhodes Scholar
Neuroscience concentrator Olivia McGinnis (‘20) is one of seven Harvard undergraduates chosen for the new class of Rhodes Scholars. Starting in fall of 2020, she will spend two…
David R. Nelson Awarded Bohr Institute Medal of Honor for his Work in Physics and Biology
MCB and Physics faculty member David R. Nelson has been named as the 2019 recipient of the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honor. The award, established by the…
A Small but Important Difference [Sanes Lab]
Neurons come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes, with the structure of each type underlying its specific functions. A major preoccupation of developmental biologists is to…
Foresight in Fish: Physical Intelligence during 3D Prey Capture [Engert Lab]
Babies possess the ability to predict what will happen in their environment based on intuition about gravity, motion, and mass of objects. This has lead to the idea…
Larval Zebrafish As a Model for Perceptual Decision-making [Engert lab]
During perceptual decision-making, animals need to accumulate sensory evidence over time, but the underlying neural processes remain poorly understood. Here we combine behavioral experiments and whole-brain imaging in…
Weathering the Storm of Axonal Injury [Sanes Lab]
Injury to the central nervous system (brain or spinal cord) usually leads to irreversible loss of function. This is because many injured neurons die and few if any…
