Catherine Dulac Catherine Dulac is one of 11 Harvard faculty members elected as a 2009 Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was…
(L to R)Alexander Schier and Jason Rihel Many psychiatric drugs were discovered decades ago through serendipity. For example, a tuberculosis drug called iproniazid also happened to make people…
(L to R) Linda Turner, Rongjing Zhang, and Howard C. Berg When grown on a rich medium on agar, many bacteria elongate, produce more flagella, and swim in…
(L to right) Gregorio Valdez and Joshua R. Sanes The great baseball player, Lou Gehrig, gave his name to the neurodegenerative disease that killed him, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.…
MCB Building Operations crew (L to R): Jimmy Costello, Gary Goodwin, Les Takacs, Eileen Snow, Paul Tighe, Chuck Bilikas, and Patrick Mullaly
(L to R) Sharad Ramanathan and Zengcai V Guo The nematode, C.elegans, with only 302 neurons, is an ideal system in which to understand how the dynamics of…
MCB Building Operations crew (L to R): Jimmy Costello, Gary Goodwin, Les Takacs, Eileen Snow, Paul Tighe, Chuck Bilikas, and Patrick Mullaly
Takao Hensch A new study, published in this week's Nature, that helps tease apart the role of single cells in the neural circuit controlling vision is helping researchers…
David Arroyo, an MCO intern from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, poses in front of the poster he created on research done in Professor Scott Edwards's lab In…
Hidde Ploegh first joined the Department from the Netherlands in the mid 1970s to do his undergraduate thesis in microbiology in Jack Strominger's lab. The lab was then…
