News from 2026

Venkatesh Murthy Honored for Excellence in Mentoring

MCB chair Venkatesh Murthy has received the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. The award, presented by the GSAS Graduate Student Council (GSC), recognizes a handful of faculty…

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Lewis E. Kay to Give Edsall Lecture

Biophysicist Lewis E. Kay will deliver the 2019 Edsall Lecture on May 9 at noon in the Northwest Building, B103. His talk is titled “The Important Role of…

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A Mechanistic Approach with Nicholas Bellono

MCB’s new assistant professor, Nicholas Bellono, has an eye for detail. In his sensory biology lab, students will be encouraged to figure out how cells respond to stimuli,…

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Five MCB Postdocs Receive Prestigious Research Fellowships

Harvard MCB hosts dozens of promising early career scientists, many of whom conduct research under the auspices of postdoctoral fellowships. These five postdocs recently received funding in support…

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Sir Adrian Bird Will Deliver the Paul Doty Lecture on April 25, 2019

Sir Adrian Bird of the University of Edinburgh will deliver the 2019 Paul Doty Lecture April 25 at 12:00 pm in Northwest Building, B103. The topic of the…

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Neuroscience Concentrators Receive Travel Fellowships

Two Neuroscience concentrators, Cindy Chau (‘19) and Mark Czeisler (‘19), have been awarded prestigious fellowships from the Office of Undergraduate Research Fellowships and Australian-American Fulbright Commission respectively. As…

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Matthew Meselson Receives 2019 Future of Life Award

The Future of Life Institute has named MCB faculty Matthew Meselson as the recipient of the 2019 Future of Life Award in recognition of his work on bioweapons…

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Bridget Keegan Will Spend Year Abroad as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant

MCB concentrator Bridget Keegan (‘19) has been chosen as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA). The award will support nine months of teaching and volunteering in Galicia, Spain.…

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16th Annual Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Symposium Explores the Richest Biological Reservoir on Earth: The Microbial World

Microbes (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists) are ubiquitous on earth and affect every part of our lives.  Yet they are mostly invisible, and the vast majority of…

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