Bacillus subtilis is a bacterium with many talents. Some cells devote themselves to exploration, abandoning their relatives to live as swimming ‘motile’ cells. Others instead choose a cooperative,…
News from 2015
INTRODUCING THE FIVE MCB PRECEPTORS
What is a preceptor? Preceptors are full-time equivalent faculty who want to teach at the university level but may not be pursuing a full research career. A preceptor’s…
NEWLY TENURED, NAO UCHIDA DECIDES ON RISK TAKING
As a postdoctoral researcher at Cold Spring Harbor, Naoshige (Nao) Uchida adapted a method for studying decision-making behavior, originally developed for primates, for rodents. (see video below) Rodent…
SRIRAM SRIKANT AND ANN RAN RECEIVE DEPARTMENT HONORS
Two MCB graduate students, Sriram Srikant (G3, Rachelle Gaudet and Andrew Murray labs) and Fei Ann Ran (G7, Feng Zhang lab at the Broad Institute) were honored for…
ROB LUE ON HOW ONLINE COURSES CAN IMPROVE LIFE ON CAMPUS
Writing in the August 2013 issue of Scientific American, Robert A. Lue made the case that "the future of on-campus learning lies in the right combination of digital…
PROFESSOR JOSHUA SANES IN THE NEWS
The September 17, 2013 New York Times described a visit by MCB Professor Joshua Sanes to the Fordham University School of Law to discuss the NIH’s upcoming BRAIN…
SWR1 [LESCHZINER LAB]
(l to r) Carl Wu, Vu Nguyen, Debbie Wei, Anand Ranjan, and Andres Leschziner Genome packaging is a universal process in eukaryotes. In the smallest repeating unit of…
