News from 2026

Two PNAS Papers from the Samuel Lab Illuminate the Bacterial Flagellar Motor

Two new papers published in PNAS from the lab of Aravinthan Samuel shine fresh light on one of biology’s most iconic molecular machines: the bacterial flagellar motor. Although…

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Wendy Valencia Montoya Receives Weintraub Graduate Student Award for Groundbreaking Thesis on the Evolution of Sensory Worlds

Wendy Valencia Montoya has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2026 Harold M. Weintraub Award in recognition of her doctoral thesis, an ambitious and interdisciplinary body of…

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Brain and Heart in Parallel: Zebrafish Study Reframes the Biology of Fear

In a new study published in Cell Reports, (PDF) researchers from the labs of MCB’s Florian Engert and Mark Fishman of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative…

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The Secret to Schooling: How Internal States Shape Social Interactions during Schooling

A school of fish can look like a single, flowing organism—dozens of bodies turning and aligning in near-perfect synchrony. But that seamless choreography emerges from many individual animals…

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Ryan Nett Awarded 2025–27 George W. Merck Fellowship

Ryan Nett, MCB assistant professor, has been named a recipient of the 2025–27 George W. Merck Fellowship. Awarded annually to outstanding tenure-track faculty, the prestigious two-year fellowship provides…

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Doty Lecture to Feature Chromosome Pioneer Kazuhiro Maeshima

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce this year’s Paul Doty Lecture, featuring renowned chromosome biologist Kazuhiro Maeshima of Japan’s National Institute of Genetics…

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I ♥ Science Returns to the Harvard Museum of Natural History THIS SATURDAY

Shake off the winter blues and release your inner scientist at I ♥ Science, a popular, hands-on afternoon of discovery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History that…

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