Harvard University COVID-19 updates
MCB faculty Venkatesh Murthy has been appointed the new Faculty Director of the Harvard Center of Biological Imaging (HCBI), following Jeff Lichtman being named Dean of Science for…
As an MCO graduate student in the Murray Lab, Alexa Pérez Torres is investigating what happens when you break the cell cycle rules in yeast. She also serves…
All summer long, teams of Harvard community members have been gathering to compete in the annual Rhino League volleyball tournament. Though athletes from across Harvard take part, the…
MCB faculty Naoshige Uchida will succeed MCB faculty Jeff Lichtman as Head Tutor of Neuroscience. Each undergraduate concentration at Harvard has a Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)—also known…
Harvard grad Gabby Thomas (Neuro ‘19) won three gold Olympic medals at the Paris Olympics this month. She chased down her first gold for her individual performance in…
A team of researchers from the Lichtman Lab, led by Program in Neuroscience (PiN) graduate student turned joint postdoc in the Lichtman and Dulac Labs Xiaomeng Han, has…
On August 1st, immunologist Kazuki Nagashima joined the MCB faculty. His research program investigates interplay between the gut microbiome, diet, and the immune system. “I’m delighted that Kazuki…
Organisms must take up nutrients and extrude toxins and waste to survive, grow, and reproduce. These import and export functions are performed at cellular membranes by proteins referred…
MCO graduate student Mackenzie Smith of Ya-Chieh Hsu’s lab in SCRB has received a grant from the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The NSF’s GRFP provides fellowships…
MCB faculty Jeeyun Chung has both received a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience and a Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Award. Issued by the Esther A.…
