Years ago, a Harvard undergraduate named Takao Hensch decided to spend a year conducting research in Japan. But lining up a position overseas proved tricky. “I put it…
News from 2019
MCO Grad Student Elizabeth May Named as Aramont Fund Fellow!
MCO graduate student Elizabeth May (G4) of the Gaudet Lab has received a fellowship from the Aramont Fund for Emerging Science Research in support of a project called…
For Signaling Receptors, Location Matters [Ramanathan Lab]
For embryos to develop properly, cells must communicate with one another over long ranges through diffusive chemical signals called morphogens. These signals act as instructive cues for the…
For Bacillus subtilis, Fate is Just a Game [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,…
Harvard Junior Fellow Kapil Ramachandran Receives Prestigious NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
The signal kept vanishing, but Kapil Ramachandran (@KVRamachandran5) kept searching for it. The then-graduate-student at Johns Hopkins was using tracing molecules called “radiolabels” to follow the life of…
MCO Alum Tessa Montague Chosen as 2019 Hanna Gray Fellow by HHMI!
MCO graduate program alum Tessa Montague (Ph.D, ‘18) has been selected as a recipient HHMI’s prestigious Hanna Gray Fellowship. The fellowship provides up to 1.4 million dollars in…
MCB Community Members Honored at Departmental Retreat
Each fall, Harvard MCB holds a departmental research retreat, where incoming students can meet faculty and learn about the department’s research offerings. At this year’s retreat, MCB community…
Computing the Evolution of Specificity in Dynamic Protein Interfaces [Gaudet Lab]
As our brain develops, neurons need to connect to each other through synapses. We study a family of proteins called clustered protocadherins that help ensure that only proper…
José Velilla of the Gaudet Lab Receives HHMI Gilliam Fellowship [Gaudet Lab]
Chemical biology grad student José Velilla [G4] of the Gaudet Lab has been named as a recipient of HHMI’s Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study. The Gilliam Fellowship supports…
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2019 MCB Staff Badminton Tournament!
1st – LJ Connelly (MCB/CBS Core Admin – Finance) and Alex Gonsalves (Northwest Building – Shipping and Receiving ) 2nd – Katie Scrocca (MCB Core Admin – MCB Graduate…
