News from 2019

HOW DO ZEBRAFISH PERCEIVE HEAT? [ENGERT AND SCHIER LABS]

(l to r) Alex Schier, Martin Haesemeyer and Florian Engert As we explore our environment we constantly experience new sensations – changes in the visual scene, different sounds…

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FINDING CORTICAL PROGENITORS IN HIGHER VERTEBRATES [RAMANATHAN LAB]

The surface of the human brain has many folds (is gyrified), quite unlike the smooth surface of the mouse brain.  This gyrification correlates with the increase in size…

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Catherine Dulac on Gender-specific Rage

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ESTABLISHING CELL FATE WITH A POLE-VAULTING PHOSPHATASE [LOSICK LAB]

Niels Bradshaw (l) and Rich Losick An important question in biology is how genetically identical cells activate different sets of genes. This is particularly perplexing for cells that…

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A NEURONAL BAR CODE IN 3D [GAUDET LAB]

John M. Nicoludis (l) and Rachelle Gaudet As the brain develops, neurons play a complicated game of Twister: they have to keep their neuronal processes from getting tangled…

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MCB MEMBERS HONORED AT DEPARTMENT RETREAT

The annual MCB awards were presented on September 11 and 12 to eight MCB researchers who have demonstrated excellence in various fields.   Bjorkman-Strominger-Wiley Prize for Collaboration (l…

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PROFESSOR LUCY SHAPIRO WILL DELIVER THE 2016 PAUL DOTY LECTURE ON OCT 1ST, 2015

The Doty Lecture is presented annually to celebrate the scientific and public policy achievements of Professor Paul Doty, founder of both the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (currently, Molecular…

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MAPPING ACTIVITY AND ANATOMY IN THE ZEBRAFISH BRAIN [ENGERT AND SCHIER LABS]

The holy grail for neuroscientists is to understand how the symphony of activity in our 100 billion neurons acts to control our thoughts and actions. The NIH BRAIN…

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PATHWAY FOR DISAPPOINTMENT [UCHIDA LAB]

Imagine you are a child hoping to get a teddy bear from your parents as a birthday gift. What if they gave you a box of candies instead?…

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