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MCO PhD Candidate Arshia Mostoufi Receives Prestigious Canadian Doctoral Fellowship

Arshia Mostoufi, an MCO PhD candidate in the lab of  Ya-Chieh Hsu in Harvard's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, has received a prestigious doctoral fellowship from…

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As MCB’s Bok Fellow, Mackenzie Harrigan Supports the Next Generation of Teachers and Scientists

When Mackenzie Harrigan began her PhD at Harvard, she knew she loved science. What she didn’t yet know was how deeply she would come to value shaping how…

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The Rhinos Get Wicked for Halloween

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,…

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Hannah McCalmon Awarded NIH F31 Fellowship to Study How the Brain Remembers Smells

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…

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MCB Launches A Slice of Science Seminar Series This Fall

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…

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How Wild Mice Outsmart Predators: Evolution Tweaks the Brain, Not the Senses

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…

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You Are What Your Great-Grandparents Ate

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…

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