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Bellono Lab Piranha Research Highlighted in the Harvard Gazette
The Harvard Gazette recently featured Bellono Lab research on piranha feeding habits in an article titled “They’re less terrifying than you think — but still, those teeth”. The…
Staff Spotlight: Peter Kilian and Brittany Walsh of the Bellono Lab
Animal technicians Peter Kilian and Brittany Walsh of the Bellono Lab spent the early weeks of 2020 burning the midnight oil to finish a set of octopus behavior…
Investigating How the Octopus ‘Tastes’ by Touch [Bellono Lab]
Octopuses are invertebrates known for their advanced intelligence and sophisticated foraging (or escape!) behaviors. These features are facilitated by a peripherally-distributed nervous system that enables advanced sensation and…
To Sting, or Not to Sting? [Bellono Lab]
Most ocean swimmers are aware, either through warnings from others or firsthand experience, of the painful, itching and burning sensation that can come from an encounter with a…
Nick Bellono Receives the New York Stem Cell Foundation’s Robertson Award
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) has named MCB faculty Nicholas Bellono as a recipient of the 2019 Robertson Investigator Award. The award provides five years…
Nick Bellono Awarded Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship!
MCB faculty Nick Bellono has been named as a Klingenstein-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience. The Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship, sponsored by the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund and the Simons…
A Mechanistic Approach with Nicholas Bellono
MCB’s new assistant professor, Nicholas Bellono, has an eye for detail. In his sensory biology lab, students will be encouraged to figure out how cells respond to stimuli,…
Nick Bellono Selected as 2019 Searle Scholar
Since 1980, the prestigious Searle Scholars Program has funded early-career scientists who show exceptional promise. MCB faculty Nick Bellono has been selected as one of this year’s 15…
Nick Bellono Chosen As 2019 Sloan Research Fellow
MCB professor Nicholas Bellono has been chosen as a 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience. Each year, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards $70,000 to 126…
