The journal Neuron conducted a Q&A (PDF) with Jeff Lichtman. View Jeff Lichtman's Faculty Profile
Congratulations to MCB professor Victoria D’Souza, who was selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) as one of their 2016 Faculty Scholars. D’Souza is one of 84…
The Inaugural Jack Strominger Lecture Series, awarded annually to an immunobiologist who has made significant contributions of inquiry in the field, kicks off next week with lectures at…
An exciting aspect of neuroscience is the ability to peek into the brain, measuring the activity of neurons in behaving animals. Electrophysiology allows us to listen to the…
How good are we at detecting a specific smell in a mixture of smells – for example, the fragrance of a stargazer lily in a large bouquet of…
When we think of the chemical elements of life, the “big four” of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen leap to mind, and rightly so, as they make up…
The complex circuits of the brain are built from thousands of types of neurons. More than a century ago, Santiago Ramon y Cajal founded what we now call…
John E. Dowling, Ph.D., the Gordon and Llura Gund Research Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard University and Professor of Ophthalmology (Neuroscience) at Harvard Medical School, has been named…
During brain development, neurons connect with each other using branched projections called dendrites. As a dendrite extends away from its neuron’s cell body to connect with dendrites from…
This historical perspective describes research on nano-scale pores initiated by Prof. David Deamer (UC Santa Cruz) and myself. Many researchers were stimulated by the early papers from Deamer’s…
