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…
News from 2025
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…
New Deep Learning Framework Reveals Hidden Structure in Neural Activity
Understanding how neurons encode information is one of the most pressing challenges in neuroscience. A new study from a multidisciplinary team including MCB researchers and those from the…
MCB to Host 2025 Prather Lectures Featuring Feng Zhang
This year, MCB will host the annual John M. Prather Lectures in Biology, a series of three talks inspired by a bequest to Harvard by the 19th-century Harvard-trained…
Avoid or ignore? How the Brain Copes with a Potential Threat
When faced with an unfamiliar threat, animals must make split-second decisions: should they flee to avoid potential harm or push forward in pursuit of a reward? This fundamental…
The Development of Instincts at the Single Cell Level
A new study from the Dulac Lab explores how one small brain region called the preoptic area (POA) of the hypothalamus changes through early life in mice. Though…
Dulac Lab Identifies “Loneliness” Neurons in the Hypothalamus
Loneliness is encoded in the brain in a way that closely resembles the neural architectures governing drives like thirst and hunger, researchers from the Dulac Lab report. A…
Innate or Earned? Rethinking the Role of Activity in Brain Development
Sixty years ago, Harvard scientists David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel famously showed that altering visual input in young cats irreversibly changed the organization of neurons in the visual…
