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STOCHASTIC ORGANELLE BIOGENESIS [O’SHEA LAB]

Erin O’Shea and Shankar Mukherji Cells are kind of like little people. Just like we have organs like our heart, lungs and brain that are responsible for core…

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SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC MAMMALIAN BRAIN FUNCTION AT THE SINGLE NEURON LEVEL [DULAC LAB]

Catherine Dulac and Joe Bergan An animal's survival depends critically on its ability to identify friends and foes in its environment and respond to each with suitable behaviors.…

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THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE [DULAC LAB]

  The discovery of neural circuits underlying social behavior is among the most fascinating goals in modern neuroscience: the specific brains areas and neuronal subsets in which social…

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TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION, NOT JUST FOR GMAIL [BURTON LAB]

(l to r) Martha Zepeda Rivera, Briana Burton, and Tanya Sysoeva One way that bacteria communicate with each other is by exporting proteins from the cytoplasm into the…

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LOOK MOM, NO BREAKS! [KLECKNER LAB]

Chromosomal regions of identical or nearly identical DNA sequence can preferentially associate with one another in the apparent absence of DNA breakage and recombination.  The genome-wide synapsis of…

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TRANSPARENT THOUGHTS [ENGERT LAB]

How do brains process sensory input and use these to choose or decide what to do?  How similar is the brain activity in different individuals that are exposed…

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MOVING LIKE A TODDLER [SCHIER LAB]

(l to r) Alex Schier, Andi Pauli, Megan Norris, Eivind Valen,  and Guo-Liang Chew According to the British embryologist Lewis Wolpert, “it is not birth, marriage, or death,…

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A MASTER REGULATOR FOR CIRCADIAN GENE EXPRESSION [O’SHEA LAB]

(l to r) Anna Puszynska, Joseph Piechura, and Erin O'Shea (not shown Joseph Markson) Organisms from humans to bacteria utilize endogenous timing mechanisms called circadian clocks to coordinate…

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WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE SEXY? [MURRAY LAB]

(l to r) Andrew Murray and Lori Huberman What makes a sex? There are two answers to this question, the master regulators that tell organisms which sex they…

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BACTERIA REMEMBER THE PAST WHEN DECIDING ABOUT THE FUTURE [LOSICK LAB]

Bacillus subtilis is a bacterium with many talents. Some cells devote themselves to exploration, abandoning their relatives to live as swimming ‘motile’ cells. Others instead choose a cooperative,…

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