Neurons connect with each other to form complex circuits that underlie mental activities. Mapping these connections to obtain a so-called wiring diagram is an essential step in learning…
News from 2019
NEUROBIOLOGY IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCES AT HARVARD: A PERSONAL VIEW
During my years as an undergraduate, graduate student, and junior faculty member at Harvard, from 1953-1964, neurobiology was not recognized as a separate discipline. Indeed, the term neurobiology…
HCBI DIRECTOR WINS HARVARD HERO AWARD
Douglas Richardson, the Director of Imaging for the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging (HCBI), has made a big impact on MCB despite being relatively new to both Harvard…
TURNING UP THE HEAT ON PROTEIN FOLDING BY TURNING DOWN HEAT SHOCK FACTOR [DENIC LAB]
(l to r) David Pincus, Eric Solís, Vlad Denic No matter where you fall on the spectrum of libertarianism this election year, you can hopefully appreciate that the…
CRISPR CELL LINEAGES [SCHIER LAB]
The cells in a multicellular organism develop via a lineage that starts with the fertilized egg. Lineage trees describe the divisions and specializations of cells over time, as…
MCB’S CATHERINE DULAC INDUCTED INTO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Elected at last year’s annual meeting, Catherine Dulac was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) at the Academy’s 153rd annual meeting this April. She is the…
PERSISTENCE REWARDED [BERG LAB]
I have been intrigued by bacterial flagellar motors since 1973, when Bob Anderson and I argued that bacterial flagellar filaments are rigid helices driven at their base, rather…
MCB PROFESSOR JOHN DOWLING PUBLISHES VISIONARY BOOK
MCB Research Professor of Neurosciences John E. Dowling has published a book on vision and ocular diseases with his brother, ophthalmologist Joseph L. Dowling of the Rhode Island…
FOLLOW YOUR NOSE….. BUT NOT ALWAYS [MURTHY LAB]
Animals balance efficiency and flexibility during natural behavior to make their decisions in different contexts. In a recent study published in Current Biology (PDF) the Murthy lab has…
EPB TO HOLD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM, SATURDAY APRIL 30
The PhD Track in Engineering and Physical Biology (EPB) invites you to attend their annual Symposium, being held on Saturday April 30th from 9:30am to 12:30pm in the Northwest Building, 52 Oxford St,…
