John Dowling with The Amazing Brain class of 2014 An alternative approach to professional development in K-12 education, Teachers as Scholars (TAS) was founded in 1996 in an…
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NEW COURSE: MCB 170 [LAURA MAGNOTTI]
MCB 170: Brain Invaders: Building and Breaking Barriers in the Nervous System The brain has evolved a unique but very effective system to protect itself from invaders. In…
NEW COURSE: MCB 68 [PROF. ETHAN GARNER AND PROF. JEFF LICHTMAN]
MCB 68: Cell Biology Through the Microscope MCB 68 explores three fundamental fields of eukaryotic cell biology: chromosome segregation, cell motility, and neuroscience. Each topic is approached from…
CATHERINE DULAC TO DELIVER PRESTIGIOUS HARVEY LECTURE
Professor Catherine Dulac will present a Harvey Lecture on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at Rockefeller University in New York City. Her lecture, entitled “Molecular and Neural Sensing of…
MOVING LIKE A TODDLER [SCHIER LAB]
(l to r) Alex Schier, Andi Pauli, Megan Norris, Eivind Valen, and Guo-Liang Chew According to the British embryologist Lewis Wolpert, “it is not birth, marriage, or death,…
A MASTER REGULATOR FOR CIRCADIAN GENE EXPRESSION [O’SHEA LAB]
(l to r) Anna Puszynska, Joseph Piechura, and Erin O'Shea (not shown Joseph Markson) Organisms from humans to bacteria utilize endogenous timing mechanisms called circadian clocks to coordinate…
THIRTEEN MCB POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS RECEIVE FELLOWSHIPS
Thirteen MCB post-doctoral researchers have been awarded post-doctoral fellowships from six different funding agencies. David Gire (Murthy Lab), Florian Merkle (Schier and Eggan Labs), Andrea Pauli (Schier Lab),…
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE SEXY? [MURRAY LAB]
(l to r) Andrew Murray and Lori Huberman What makes a sex? There are two answers to this question, the master regulators that tell organisms which sex they…
NEW TOOLS LIGHT UP THE INTRICACIES OF THE BRAIN [LICHTMAN LAB]
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