High school teachers applaud Dr. Starnbach's lecture, "T-cell responses to Microbial Pathogens." Focusing this year on immunology and infectious disease, the third annual MCB/HHMI High School Fall Outreach…
Next time you recoil from a swarm of fruit flies in your kitchen, consider this: You and these hovering insects share an ancestral bond, dating back hundreds of…
Nicole Francis The metamorphosis from postdoc to principal investigator is one of the most exhilarating transitions in the life of a scientist. Nicole Francis, who was recently appointed…
View Movies and Figures A 360° view of a segregated neuromuscular junction (muscle surface is shown in red). The animation provides a closeup of the green bulb-tipped axon…
Erin O'Shea, an internationally renowned cell and systems biologist, will be joining MCB. Erin is currently an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of…
Tom Maniatis at Caltech, c. 1980 It was July 1976 and Tom Maniatis—long-haired and Birkenstocked—stood on the balcony of the Cambridge City Hall watching protesters who were calling…
We are very pleased to announce that Alex Schier has agreed to join our Department in the summer of 2005 as Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Alex…
Preparing for the BIOlympics Nearly everything about MCB’s 2004 Research Retreat was new, as an unprecedented 230 participants met for the first time at Ocean Edge Resort in…
How much of our behavior is determined by our genes and how much by our environment? Fiercely debated but not fully resolved, the nature-vs.-nurture question is something with…
Matthew Meselson(PhotoBureau, Inc./Joe Vericker) Matthew Meselson, a Harvard molecular biologist whose famous experiment substantiated the newly discovered double-helix structure of DNA and who prompted the United States to…
