This year’s Bloch Lecture will be given by Denis Duboule, a pioneer in revealing the roles of Hox genes in development and evolution. Duboule earned his PhD in…
In vertebrate nervous systems, vast interconnected networks of neurons underlie brain function. Connectomics is a new field that attempts to map out these networks. At the forefront of…
This year’s Edsall lecture will be delivered by Professor Susan M. Gasser, director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and professor of Molecular Biology at the…
Cassandra Extavour may be the only professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology who is also a recorded musician. Her classically-trained soprano voice can be heard…
Dopamine plays an outsized role in the public imagination, acting as a ‘happiness’ chemical, the drug that causes psychosis, or the pill that allows frozen people to move…
To avoid injury, most organisms react reflexively to the approach of incoming objects. For instance, humans will, without thinking, dodge an oncoming car or bat away a small…
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) has awarded Nancy Kleckner, the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the 2016 Thomas…
On January 21, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced the $ 28 million grant that was awarded to the John A. Paulson…
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…
Brains process external information rapidly at a sub-second time scale, which is set by the dynamic electrophysiological properties of neurons and the fast communication within neuronal populations. This…
