On Monday, May 5th, Caroline Rende, Associate Director, Graduate Career Exploration with Harvard’s Mignone Center for Career Success will give a presentation tailored for graduate students, but open…
News from 2026
New Microbiology Course to Launch This Fall – REGISTRATION OPEN NOW
The Microbes Are Coming This Fall! Don’t worry—it’s not another pandemic, but an exciting new general microbiology course for undergraduates launching in Fall 2025, taught by MCB Assistant…
Six MCB, CPB, and Neuro Juniors Elected to Phi Beta Kappa 2025
We are thrilled to announce that five outstanding juniors concentrating in Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB), Chemical and Physical Biology (CPB), and Neuroscience have been elected to the…
Mini-Course Explores Scientific Controversy and the Evolution of Ideas
Harvard MCO PhD student Jeremy Koob and his longtime friend, Alexander Mitchell, an MD/PhD student at the University of Connecticut, recently co-taught a mini-course offered through Harvard’s Graduate…
James Berger will Deliver the Paul Doty Lecture on April 10
This year, James M Berger, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will return to Harvard to present the Doty Lecture, “Still Unscrambling the Puzzle of Biological Machines:…
SAVE THE DATE – MCB Community Forum on April 25
The MCB Community Forum takes place once each semester. This spring, MCB Chair Rachelle Gaudet will lead the meeting on Friday, April 25, at 4:00 pm in the…
Dulac Lab Postdocs Awarded Grants from NIH and Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF)
Two postdocs from the Dulac Lab have recently been awarded fellowships. Changwoo Seo was selected for an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, and Mostafizur Rahman received a…
Mara Casebeer to Present Science Talk on Neuron Growth at the Natural History Museum
This Saturday, March 29, Harvard PhD candidate Mara Casebeer, a student in Daniel Needleman’s MCB and Applied Physics lab, will give a public Science Spotlights talk at the…
Decoding Learning: How Cues and Rewards Shape Behavior and Dopamine Signals
A new study from Naoshige Uchida's MCB lab provides new insight into how the brain processes contingency during associative learning. Published in Nature Neuroscience (PDF), the study demonstrates…
Call for Nominations: 2025 MCB Mentorship Award
The MCB Community Task Force (CTF) is excited to announce that nominations for the 2025 MCB Mentorship Award are now open! This annual award recognizes individuals within the…
