During brain development, neurons connect with each other using branched projections called dendrites. As a dendrite extends away from its neuron’s cell body to connect with dendrites from…
John M. Nicoludis (l) and Rachelle Gaudet As the brain develops, neurons play a complicated game of Twister: they have to keep their neuronal processes from getting tangled…
Christina Zimanyi hails from Big Bear Lake, a resort town in the mountains of Southern California, where as a youth she enjoyed just about anything other than the…
Ahmet Vakkasoglu (l) and Rachelle Gaudet At the heart of our adaptive immune system is the presentation of internal antigens, usually peptides, to cytotoxic T cells. The Transporter…
(l to r) Rachelle Gaudet, Sriram Srikant, and Andrew Murray MCO/EPB graduate student Sriram “Sri” Srikant (rising G3, Murray and Gaudet Labs) received a 2013 Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research…
Rachelle Gaudet (l) and Kenneth Skinner Kenneth Skinner, a second year graduate student in Rachelle Gaudet’s lab, has recently received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Ford…
Marcos Sotomayor and Rachelle Gaudet The vertebrate inner ear is in charge of transforming mechanical stimuli from sound and head movement into electrical signals that are sent to…
Rachelle Gaudet The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Rachelle Gaudet has received tenure at Harvard University. Gaudet first came to…
Cadherin-23 stretching simulations. A close-up view of the linker region between cadherin-23 repeats 1 and 2 is shown during a molecular dynamics simulation in which the protein is…
Rachelle Gaudet Rachelle Gaudet has been selected to receive a Klingenstein Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences for 2007 for her project, "Structural biology of temperature sensing by the…
