The current landscape of graduate training in the biosciences is a topic of much discussion among administrators, faculty, policy makers, and of course, student trainees themselves. Topics include…
This year’s Edsall lecture will be delivered by Professor Susan M. Gasser, director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and professor of Molecular Biology at the…
Cassandra Extavour may be the only professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology who is also a recorded musician. Her classically-trained soprano voice can be heard…
“Often people tell me I’m doing two disparate things: science and theater,” but neurobiology concentrator Sean Hardy ’16 doesn’t see it that way. After a good conversation—facilitated, perhaps,…
Dopamine plays an outsized role in the public imagination, acting as a ‘happiness’ chemical, the drug that causes psychosis, or the pill that allows frozen people to move…
Neir Eshel, a recent PhD graduate from the Uchida Lab, will deliver this year’s Larry Katz Memorial Prize Lecture at the Cold Spring Harbor conference on Neuronal Circuits…
To avoid injury, most organisms react reflexively to the approach of incoming objects. For instance, humans will, without thinking, dodge an oncoming car or bat away a small…
The Genetics Society of America (GSA) has awarded Nancy Kleckner, the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the 2016 Thomas…
On January 21, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences announced the $ 28 million grant that was awarded to the John A. Paulson…
