Susan Foster, executive director of the MCB Department, received a 2012 Harvard Hero award after being enthusiastically nominated by both faculty and staff. The Hero award is a…
(L to R) Lisa Fountain, Xiaoli Mi, Yuying Luo, Lillian Tsai, Vernon Wu, Fei Song, Stephanie Lin, Priscilla Wang, Tom Torello. Not shown: Melanie Hu, Mark Regheb, Marielena…
Cynthia Kenyon, American Cancer Society Research Professor and director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, at UCSF, is the 2012 Paul Doty lecturer. Cynthia will…
(L to R) Drew Robson, Jennifer Li, Ruben Portugues, Alexander Schier, Florian Engert, and Misha Ahrens There are two fundamentally different forms of sensory information that are being…
(L to R): Phil Shiu, Nichole Collins, Carolina Salguero, and Jonathan Russell The National Science Foundation has offered four MCB graduate students its Graduate Research Fellowship, and three…
(L to R) Richard Branch, Junhua Yuan, Basarab Hosu and Howard Berg The bacterium Escherichia coli decides whether life is getting better or worse by swimming about and…
The annual John M. Prather Lectures in Biology will be presented by Svante Pääbo, an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.…
(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…
On Saturday, April 21, the second Engineering and Physical Biology (EPB) Symposium will be held in Room B103 of the Northwest Building, 52 Oxford St. Speakers from constituent…
Ron Vale, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco, will give the 2012 John T. Edsall…
