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MCB Professors Andrew Murray and Jeff Lichtman have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The two are among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates…
(l to r) Andrew Murray and Lori Huberman What makes a sex? There are two answers to this question, the master regulators that tell organisms which sex they…
(l to r) Rachelle Gaudet, Sriram Srikant, and Andrew Murray MCO/EPB graduate student Sriram “Sri” Srikant (rising G3, Murray and Gaudet Labs) received a 2013 Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research…
John Koschwanez (l) and Andrew Murray How do microbes evolve to utilize nutrients that they can't import? We used engineering and experimental evolution of budding yeast to study…
(L-R) Derek Lau and Andrew Murray Faithful chromosome segregation during cell division keeps cells alive and keeps cancer and birth defects at bay. A chromosome’s movements during mitosis…
(L-R) John Koschwanez and Andrew Murray Many unicellular organisms secrete enzymes that release nutrients from their environment. But most of the nutrients can't be captured by the cell's…
A model for feedback control of spindle checkpoint activity Feedback control of spindle checkpoint activity. (Left) Prior to metaphase, chromosomes that are incorrectly aligned on the mitotic spindle…
Authors Ayellet Segrè and Andrew Murray Life exists in an impressive variety of forms, but the processes responsible for generating all that variation typically take far longer than…
Anyone who’s ever taken a freshman biology course in college knows the ordinary routine: a big textbook, a big class, and lots of facts to memorize before exams.…
Andrew Murray and Vahan Indjeian Errors in chromosome segregation lead to disease and death. To prevent such errors, sister chromatids are held together with the protein complex cohesin,…
