Venkatesh Murthy Looking back on his career, Venkatesh (Venki) Murthy sees no direct path or single-minded passion. “I find there’s joy on the side roads,” explains the newly…
No matter how hard we fix our gaze, our eyes are in constant motion due to involuntary head and eye movements. The resulting image motion on our retinas…
More than a century ago, Ramón y Cajal’s use of Golgi staining to visualize nerve cells opened the door to modern neurobiology: by staining a small number of…
Program participants (clockwise from top-left): Jaline Gerardin, Varun Narendra and unidentified University of Chicago student; Kevin Zhang; local student and Yonit Lavin; Megan Srinivas Throughout history, scientists have…
(L to R): Kyl Myrick, Rob Kulathinal, Beverley Matthews, Lynn Crosby, Kenneth Wiley, Bill Gelbart, Jerry Antone, Sian Gramates Susan Russo and AJ Bhutkar On Thursday, November 8,…
The annual John T. Edsall Lecture returns on Thursday, November 8th with Sir John Skehel of the National Institute of Medical Research. Sir John Skehel, a leading virologist,…
Christopher Murphy This year’s Peralta Prize has been awarded to Christopher Murphy of the Matt Michael lab in MCB for his graduate work, “Mechanism of Checkpoint Activation at…
Left to right: Michael J. Rust, Erin K. O'Shea, and Joseph S. Markson Circadian rhythms are daily cycles of behavior and metabolism that allow organisms to anticipate the…
The laboratory of Dr Hector Morbidoni in Rosario, Argentina, before (left) and after receiving equipment from Seeding Labs. Members of Seeding Labs prepare a shipment for a teaching…
