News from 2015

Professor Susan Mango get Elected to the University Faculty Council

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MUSIC HONORING RENOWNED MESELSON-STAHL EXPERIMENT PREMIERES APRIL 10, 2015 SOLD OUT

  The world premiere of "Helix Spirals,” a composition for string quartet composed by Augusta Read Thomas, will be performed in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall beginning…

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POSTDOC PROFILE: YE-JIN JENNA EUN [GARNER LAB]

“Hey wake up, we’re going somewhere,” Ye-Jin Eun’s parents announced one Sunday afternoon, initiating her transcontinental journey from her hometown of Gwangju, South Korea to the Department of…

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DAVID JULIUS WILL DELIVER THE 2015 PAUL DOTY LECTURE

David Julius, Professor and Chair of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will deliver the 2015 Paul Doty Lecture on April 16, 2015. This annual…

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WHY SOME AXONS REGENERATE BETTER THAN OTHERS [SANES LAB]

Recovery from injury to the mammalian brain or spinal cord is notoriously poor, and a big part of the problem lies in the limited ability of damaged neurons…

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CLOCK GENES TIME BRAIN DEVELOPMENT [HENSCH LAB]

Scientists have long known that humans and other animals have a master biological clock situated in a deep brain region called the hypothalamus. In this master clock, cells…

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ON APRIL 2, MICHAEL ROSBASH PRESENTS 2015 BLOCH LECTURE

This year’s Bloch Lecture will be given by Michael Rosbash, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Peter Gruber Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University. Originally interested…

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JANE LUBCHENCO TO GIVE 2015 PRATHER LECTURES CANCELED

The annual John M. Prather Lectures in Biology will be presented by Jane Lubchenco, a world renowned marine ecologist, the U.S. Science Envoy for the Ocean, and University…

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FEELING GOOD OR BAD LATELY? LISTEN TO SEROTONIN [UCHIDA LAB]

(l to r) Mackenzie Amoroso, Jeremiah Cohen, and Nao Uchida Serotonin is one of the most widespread and mysterious neurotransmitters in the brain. It has been proposed to…

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