100 years biochemical sciences tutorial
Each September, the MCB community gathers for their research retreat, where community members can learn about each other’s research, have fun, meet incoming graduate students and other community…
Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH) offers research experiences in Harvard labs to undergraduates from other colleges. The goal is to give participating students a sense of what…
As an MCO graduate student in the Murray Lab, Alexa Pérez Torres is investigating what happens when you break the cell cycle rules in yeast. She also serves…
MCO graduate student Mackenzie Smith of Ya-Chieh Hsu’s lab in SCRB has received a grant from the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The NSF’s GRFP provides fellowships…
Because of the myriad of scientific discoveries that have been made in the Biolabs building, I have always thought that our department, MCB, is over 100 years old.…
Insects affect human lives both positively and negatively, therefore understanding how they interact with their surroundings can help us better manage their effects on our lives. Gustatory receptors…
MCO graduate student Alan Baez Vazquez is investigating how immune cells called macrophages contribute to repair of damaged lung tissue in Ruth Franklin’s lab. Franklin is an Assistant…
It’s common to speak of “the structure of a protein,” but proteins are dynamic molecules that move and shapeshift. A protein can be described as 1-dimensional polymer –…
For 10 weeks over the summer, five undergraduate scientists from around the country were given the opportunity to live like a Harvard MCO graduate student as part of…
All cells contain a network of molecular chaperones that help other proteins (often called “clients”) fold into functional three-dimensional conformations. Decades of research on chaperones has led to…
