This course is an in-depth survey of the microbial world, i.e., organisms invisible to the naked (human) eye. We will examine microbes, including bacteria, small parasites, and viruses,…
News from 2015
MCO/EPB STUDENT SRIRAM SRIKANT AWARDED HHMI INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP
(l to r) Rachelle Gaudet, Sriram Srikant, and Andrew Murray MCO/EPB graduate student Sriram “Sri” Srikant (rising G3, Murray and Gaudet Labs) received a 2013 Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research…
TOM POLLARD WILL DELIVER THE 2014 PAUL DOTY LECTURE
Professor Tom Pollard will deliver the 2014 Paul Doty Lecture on Sept 5th, 2013. This lecture is presented annually to celebrate the scientific and public policy achievements of…
FOUR MCB POST-DOCTORATES RECEIVE FELLOWSHIPS
(l to r) Shankar Mukherji, Lia Cardarelli, David Schoppik, Summer Thyme, and Purvang Patel (Assistant Director of Postdoctoral Affairs) Four MCB post-doctoral researchers have been awarded post-doctoral fellowships…
MORPHOGEN GRADIENTS, NON-CODING RNAS, AND MULTICOLORED FISH [SCHIER LAB]
A Zebrabow fish circled by a rainbow of ribosome profiles. In three papers published in Development, the Schier lab suggests that signals move through developing tissues by hindered…
SHARAD RAMANATHAN RECEIVES TENURE
The MCB department is pleased to announce the tenure of Sharad Ramanathan, Associate professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Physics. Ramanathan embraces the physicist’s ideal…
OUTREACH GIVES HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS A HARVARD LAB EXPERIENCE
(l to r) Alix Lacoste, Katherine Rogers, Eric Wu, Jacqueline Brooks, and Minh Vong One morning before dawn in early April, two dozen high school students and their…
BODY BUILDING IN E. COLI [BERG LAB]
(l to r) Howard Berg, Pushkar Lele, and Basarab Hosu Contact with a surface is believed to trigger bacterial swarmer-cell differentiation, and the flagellar motor is thought to…
