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…
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Gabby Thomas (Neuro ‘19) Wins Trio of Olympic Golds in Paris
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…
Lichtman Lab Pairs Immunolabeling with Connectomic Data
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…
Faculty Spotlight: Kazuki Nagashima
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…
Systematic Analyses Find That Related Transport Proteins Choreograph Their Conformational Dance from a Small Set of Common Moves
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 Awarded NSF Fellowship
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…
Jeeyun Chung Earns Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship and Charles H. Hood Foundation Grant
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.…
Focus on Fellowships: Six Bellono Lab Postdocs Awarded Fellowships
Receiving a fellowship is a key milestone, as well as an important source of funding, for many postdocs. Many labs, such as the Bellono Lab, go out of…
Kazuki Nagashima Wins NOSTER-Science Microbiome Prize
Kazuki Nagashima, who will join MCB as new faculty on August 1st, has won the NOSTER-Science Microbiome Prize. Aimed at early career microbiome researchers, contest entrants write an…
Welcome to Kazuki Nagashima and Marissa Gredler to MCB
Two new faculty, Kazuki Nagashima and Marissa Gredler, will join MCB as Assistant Professors in the upcoming months. Kazuki Nagashima studies interactions between immunology, the microbiome, and diet.…
