Sensory systems must be adaptive to allow animals to cope with changing environments. For hundreds of years, neuroscientists thought that neural plasticity came from changes in the connections…
News from 2026
Controlling Organellar Excess: Msp1 Eliminates Undesired Membrane Proteins from Mitochondria and Peroxisomes [Denic Lab]
The phrase “finding a needle in a haystack” refers to the difficulty of locating a specific target among a large number of very similar objects. Living cells face…
MCB Professor Wins NIH Award
MCB professor Alex Schier is one of the 2017 winners of the Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His project, “DNA-Mediated Recording of Cellular…
MCB Faculty, Students, and Researchers Recognized at Department Retreat
Every year, the MCB department announces the winners of awards that honor the creativity, experimental rigor, and collaborative spirit of Harvard students, postdocs, and faculty. This year’s honorees…
New MCB Professor Electrifies Proteomics
Doeke R. Hekstra, MCB’s new Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics for SEAS, came to Harvard with an unorthodox plan…
FAS Postdoc Association Celebrates First Full Year
In the past year, dozens of Harvard postdocs--including several from the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department--have banded together into an organization that addresses postdocs’ unique needs through projects…
Channeling Anti-viral Immunity [Hunter Lab]
The discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) in 1998 was one of the most unexpected findings in the last 30 years. The Nobel-winning observations were made in C. elegans,…
Collaboration and Camaraderie Fuel the SROH Program
Every year, a handful of undergraduates from colleges around the country conduct summer research in Harvard labs through a program called Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH). This…
