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James Valcourt, a third-year PhD student in Sharad Ramanathan’s lab, has written and published a book for the popular science market. Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern…
Human brain cells begin their lives as pluripotent cells with the potential to develop into any cell type in the body. As those pluripotent stem cells differentiate and…
The surface of the human brain has many folds (is gyrified), quite unlike the smooth surface of the mouse brain. This gyrification correlates with the increase in size…
(l to r) Sharad Ramanathan, Sumin Jang (G4, MCO), Ching-Han (Hannah) Shen (G6, MCO), Jeffrey Lee (G5, Applied Physics), Leon Furchtgott (G5, Biophysics), Abdullah Yonar (G1, Applied Physics),…
The MCB department is pleased to announce the tenure of Sharad Ramanathan, Associate professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Physics. Ramanathan embraces the physicist’s ideal…
(L to R) Askin Kocabas, Hannah Shen, and Sharad Ramanathan Can we understand the dynamics of the nervous system of any animal well enough to be able to…
(L to R) Sharad Ramanathan, Drew Robson, Ben Jordan, Alexander Schier, Patrick Müller, and Katherine Rogers How do zebras get their stripes and leopards their spots? Why is…
Sharad Ramanathan Florian Engert Two MCB faculty members, Florian Engert and Sharad Ramanathan, are recipients of the 2011 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program. This program supports individual scientists…
Sharad Ramanathan Sharad Ramanathan, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Assistant Professor of Applied Physics (SEAS) has been selected as one of 22 Pew Scholars in…
A fundamental question in developmental biology is how multi-potent cells choose a fate. While we know a lot about how cell states are maintained through growing amounts of…
