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…
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…
MCB’s Daniel Cardozo Pinto and Wendy Valencia Montoya Named 2025 Harvard Junior Fellows
Harvard has named Daniel Cardozo Pinto and Wendy Valencia Montoya as two of its newest Junior Fellows, joining the prestigious Society of Fellows this year. They will begin…
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…
Brittany Walsh of the Bellono Lab Wins Doty-Losick Prize for Exceptional Service
This year’s Doty-Losick Prize for Exceptional Service went to Research Assistant Brittany Walsh of the Bellono Lab. Named for MCB faculty Paul Doty (1920-2011) and Rich Losick, the…
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).…
Walking Fish and the Origins of Limbs: How Sea Robins Illuminate Evolutionary Wonders
Imagine a fish with legs, not just fins. A creature that strolls along the ocean floor, hunting for prey with an almost eerie precision. This is the remarkable…
Focus on Fellowships: Six Bellono Lab Postdocs Awarded Fellowships
Receiving a fellowship is a key milestone, as well as an important source of funding, for many postdocs. Many labs, such as the Bellono Lab, go out of…
Nick Bellono’s Studies of Aquatic Adaptations Make a Splash
“I got interested in octopus, honestly, because it’s octopus and it’s really cool,” says Nicholas Bellono, MCB Associate Professor. We agree, and apparently, Nick’s obvious enthusiasm for his…
