This year seven graduating seniors in concentrations administered by the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology were inducted to the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) honor society.…
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News from 2026
Congratulations to Dowling Thesis Prize Recipient Julia Lord!
Each year, Harvard awards the John E. Dowling Thesis Prize to a single undergraduate for outstanding scholarship and research in the field of neurobiology. This year’s recipient was…
ANNUAL BOSTON BACTERIAL MEETING TO BE HELD AT HARVARD SCIENCE CENTER JUNE 15-16
Registration is open for the 2017 Boston Bacterial Meeting! For over 20 years, the annual Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) has brought together microbiologists from both academic and industrial…
MCB Professor Wins Top Neuroscience Award
MCB professor Joshua Sanes has won this year’s Gruber Neuroscience Prize; a valuable international award given by the Society for Neuroscience and funded by Yale University’s Gruber Foundation.…
Hoekstra Inducted to National Academy of Sciences
MCB professor Hopi Hoekstra was recently inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), after being officially elected to the organization last year. The NAS is one of…
Three CPB Students Inducted to Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to three juniors from the Chemical and Physical Biology (CPB) program - Alan Gao, Eric Li, and Brittany Petros - who have been chosen to join the…
The First Nanoscale Rendering of an Entire Vertebrate Brain
People frequently operate computer devices such as smartphones that collect user input and process this information to produce outputs on a display or through headphones. Engineers control how…
On May 18, Yukiko Yamashita Presents 2017 Bloch Lecture
Yukiko Yamashita obtained her Ph.D from Kyoto University, Japan, completed the postdoctoral fellowship with Minx Fuller at Stanford University (2001-2006), She started her own laboratory at the University…
Pairing Off to Work: Nucleating Gene Silencing by Direct Interactions of Homologous Double-stranded DNA Molecules [Kleckner Lab]
The genomes of most eukaryotic organisms, including humans, contain large amounts of repetitive DNA organized in the form of heterochromatin. As a result, this specialized chromatin state plays…
