Harvard University COVID-19 updates
We seek applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. MCB is a tight-knit, supportive and collaborative research community with interests in…
The Harvard Life Sciences Departments have teamed up to throw the second annual Life Sciences Shindig. The party will take place in the BioLabs courtyard on Friday September…
Sea anemones are known for stinging, but not all anemones sting alike. By comparing two related anemones, the Bellono Lab has identified a small change in how a…
For 10 weeks over the summer, five undergraduate scientists from around the country were given the opportunity to live like a Harvard MCO graduate student as part of…
All cells contain a network of molecular chaperones that help other proteins (often called “clients”) fold into functional three-dimensional conformations. Decades of research on chaperones has led to…
Vision begins in the retina, a part of the brain that lines the back of the eyeball. It contains complex neural circuits composed of numerous cell types that…
MCO graduate student Dustin Tillman (G5) has received an F31 Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS). The fellowship…
Recent alum Zoe Weiss (MCB ‘23) has published an essay titled “What I Owe My Mentor” in the journal Science. The essay highlights the contributions of her mentor…
Nancy Kleckner, Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology, looks back at crucial moments in her career in a Nature Cell Biology Turning Points essay (PDF)—from becoming enthralled with…
Ryunosuke Amo, a postdoc in the Uchida lab, has been honored with the Young Investigator Award from the Japan Neuroscience Society. The yearly award recognizes five early career…
