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Anastasiia Sukalskaia Awarded Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship

Postdoctoral fellow Anastasiia Sukalskaia has received a prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship, which will support her research in the lab of MCB’s Nicholas Bellono on…

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Bellono Lab Research Featured on Two September Cell Covers

Two recent studies from the MCB lab of Nick Bellono will be featured on the cover of Cell this month, highlighting the lab’s ongoing exploration of unconventional model…

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Wendy Valencia Montoya – Bridging Natural History and Molecular Biology

By the time Wendy  Valencia Montoya arrived at Harvard, she had already lived in tents deep in the Amazon, crisscrossed Europe to study evolutionary biology, and uncovered genetic…

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Solar-Powered Thieves: New Study Uncovers Animal Organelle That Sustains Photosynthesis from Stolen Chloroplasts

They look like crawling leaves, but these sea slugs are anything but ordinary. MCB Professor Nick Bellono calls them “the weirdest animal we’ve ever studied”—a bold claim from…

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Octopuses Use Microbial Signals to Guide Complex Behaviors

A new study published in Cell from the lab of MCB faculty member Nick Bellono reveals that octopuses detect microbial cues on surfaces to distinguish prey and eggs…

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Brittany Walsh Receives 2025 FAS Dean’s Distinction Award

Brittany Walsh, Research Assistant for the Bellono Lab, has been named a 2025 recipient of the FAS Dean’s Distinction Award, one of Harvard’s highest staff honors. The award…

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Postdoc Spotlight: Loranzie Rogers

As previously announced, postdoc Loranzie Rogers of the Bellono Lab has been named as a 2024 Hanna H. Gray Fellowship from HHMI. The fellowship provides up to 1.5…

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Nicholas Bellono Unravels the Mysteries of Diverse Sensory Systems: Wins 2024 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience

We are thrilled to announce that MCB’s Nicholas Bellono, has been honored with the 2024 Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).…

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