It’s that time of year again—when the iconic rhinos outside the BioLabs building get a seasonal makeover! Continuing a beloved MCB tradition, the first-year students in the Molecules,…
Fourth-year MCO PhD student Hannah McCalmon of the Venkatesh Murthy Lab in MCB has been awarded an NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship to support her research on how the…
This fall, MCB will introduce a new seminar series, A Slice of Science, which merges two well-known departmental traditions: Friday Talks @4 and the MCO Journal Club (MCB…
A new Nature study from the lab of OEB and MCB’s Hopi Hoekstra reveals that wild mice from different environments use distinct defensive strategies when faced with threats—differences that…
What if a gene program evolved that could predict the future? Would organisms use it to boost their reproductive success? Recent work from the MCB lab of Craig…
The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) proudly congratulates all of our graduating students! First and foremost, we celebrate our PhD graduates. This year, 18 students in…
The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) at Harvard has announced the recipients of the 2025 MCB Mentorship Awards, honoring four individuals whose dedication to guiding and…
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…
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…
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…
