When selecting fluorescent proteins (FPs), it is standard practice to select FPs with the highest in vitro brightness. However, it is well-known that in vitro brightness does not…
News from 2026
MCO Student Featured in Nature Magazine
Vayu Maini Rekdal, a third-year MCO student in the Balskus lab, is featured in PDF
Former MCO Student Elected to Latino 30 Under 30
Mohammed Mostajo-Radji, a former MCO graduate student from Paola Arlotta’s lab, has been named one of El Mundo Boston’s 2017 Latino 30 under 30. These individuals are chosen…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Scaffolding didn't stop them. The first-year graduate students continued with the tradition to decorate the rhinos that are located outside the BioLabs.
The Brain Representation of Social Information [Dulac and Murthy Labs]
Behaviors such as mating, territorial defense, parenting or predator avoidance, despite being instinctive, are modulated by social experience. Because instinctive behaviors can be elicited without any previous social…
Postdoc Profile: Fatma Zehra Yildiz [D’Souza Lab]
Anyone lucky enough to be invited over for lunch with postdoctoral fellow Fatma Zehra Yildiz of Victoria D’Souza’s lab should accept immediately. Whoever does will be treated to…
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Neuron: Watching Newborn Neurons Grow Up in the Adult Brain [Murthy Lab]
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…
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…
