The MCB Community Task Force on Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) is leading off the new semester with an Engert Lab Open House on Friday, September 2 at…
News from 2025
How to Make Injured Neurons Survive [Sanes Lab]
It is old news that damage to our brain or spinal cord is generally irreversible, leading to a gloomy prognosis for neurodegenerative disease or traumatic injury. More than…
New Course Taught by Max Prigozhin
I am teaching a new class starting this semester (Fall 2022): Applied Physics 242 / MCB 161 “Introduction to Single-Molecule Biophysics”. The course will cover the structure of…
Extavour Lab’s Cricket Embryo Research Highlighted in New York Times
The New York Times recently featured a research collaboration led by MCB and OEB faculty Cassandra Extavour in an article titled “The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos.”…
SROH Gives Undergrads a Taste of an MCO PhD
Undergrads from around the country just wrapped up their taste of what life is like as an MCO PhD candidate, thanks to the 10-week Summer Research Opportunities at…
Welcome to New Faculty Ryan Nett and Jeeyun Chung
Two new faculty, Ryan Nett and Jeeyun Chung, will join the MCB department as Assistant Professors in the coming year. “We're thrilled that Jeeyun Chung and Ryan Nett…
Hoekstra Lab Identifies Chromosomal Inversion That Helps Deer Mice Adapt to their Environment
Forest-dwelling deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) can be distinguished from their prairie-roaming counterparts by their longer tails and their darker coat color, which helps them blend into a woodland…
Uchida Lab Connects Machine Learning Theory to Biological Brains
In our new study published in Nature Neuroscience, we found evidence that rodent brains use a specific form of learning called temporal difference (TD) learning. TD learning has…
Murthy Lab Investigates the Formation of “Smell Memories”
Good or bad experiences associated with smells are thought to become strongly ingrained in memory, even more so than memories associated with sights, sounds, and other senses. Where…
Postdoc Spotlight: Jennifer Chen (Hoekstra and Eddy Labs)
Postdoc Jennifer Chen is exploring the evolution of innate behaviors in closely related species of deer mice. She conducts research jointly in the Hoekstra Lab, which specializes in…
