In a recent paper in Neuron (PDF) the Engert and Schier labs uncover striking similarities in stimulus representation and computation across biological and artificial neural networks performing temperature…
News from 2019
Pain in the (Fish) Brain [Engert-, Kunes-, and Schier Labs]
When we think of the neurons that control pain-induced behavior, what usually comes to mind are the simple peripheral and spinal reflex circuits described in medical textbooks. This…
American Society of Mammalogists Awards Highest Honor to Hopi Hoekstra
MCB and OEB joint faculty Hopi Hoekstra has received the 2019 C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM). The award—established in 1974 and named…
MCB Professor Wins grant to Map the Eye
Joshua Sanes, the Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Paul J. Finnegan Family Director for Harvard’s Center for Brain Science, will head a…
Gut Microbes Eat our Medication
The first time Vayu Maini Rekdal manipulated microbes, he made a decent sourdough bread. At the time, young Maini Rekdal, and most people who head to the kitchen,…
Nick Bellono Awarded Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship!
MCB faculty Nick Bellono has been named as a Klingenstein-Simons Fellow in Neuroscience. The Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship, sponsored by the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund and the Simons…
Nancy Hegarty Honored as a Harvard Hero
In 1975, amid the crush of people who flooded into Boston to watch the World Series, Nancy Hegarty had an epiphany. “The roads were a sea of people,”…
Catherine Dulac Elected to American Philosophical Society
MCB faculty Catherine Dulac has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), one of the most venerated scholarly organizations in the United States. The APS is a…
Venki Murthy Comments on SEAS’s Move to Allston
MCB Chair, Venki Murthy, is quoted in the Harvard Crimson. Murthy lab website
Remodeling Flagellar Motors [Berg Lab]
Most bacteria swim through fluids by rotating helical flagella, driven at their base by a macromolecular rotary motor. The motor drives the flagellum against the viscous resistance of…
