News from 2026

MCB Students Win Valuable Fellowships

Four MCB students have been honored this spring with prestigious awards designed to allow them to continue their academic pursuits at Harvard. Caitlin Lewarch from Hopi Hoekstra’s lab…

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Do Not Go Rhythmless into That Good Night [O’Shea Lab]

The cycle of day and night is one of the most recurrent and predictable environmental change on our planet. Consequently, organisms evolved mechanisms that give them an ability…

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MCB Professor Elected to AAAS

MCB professor Hopi Hoekstra was among the Harvard professors elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) this year. AAAS is one of the oldest honorary…

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Good Parent, Bad Parent: The Evolution of Parental Care in Monogamous Mice [Hoekstra and Dulac Labs]

Parental care is crucial for the survival of mammals, yet species vary widely in the extent and type of care they give to their young. In species where…

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Inaugural Harvard B4 Fellowship Opens New Doors for Postdocs

One year ago when Parvathi Sreekumar earned her PhD in Crop Physiology at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India, she never would have guessed that today…

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MCB Professor Wins Sackler Prize

MCB Professor Takao K. Hensch, who researches brain development with Harvard’s Center for Brain Science and Children’s Hospital Boston, has won the biannual Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D. Prize…

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14th 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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Building Budding Brain Biologists: Harvard’s Inaugural B4 Program in India

In the gleaming academic fortress of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India, MCB professor Venkatesh Murthy and Advisor/Preceptor Laura Magnotti spent two weeks over…

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Who Moved My Arm? Learning from Performance Error [Uchida Lab]

You head to your favorite coffee shop, order a cappuccino, and when the barista calls your name, you grab your coffee. Imagine, however, you grab the wrong cup…

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Engineering and Physical Biology (EPB) Annual Symposium

The PhD Track in Engineering and Physical Biology (EPB) invites you to attend their annual Symposium, being held on Saturday April 8th from 9:00am to 12:30pm in the Northwest…

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