MCB faculty Vlad Denic has been chosen to receive funding for a joint project with HMS professor Wade Harper from a strategic research alliance between the pharmaceutical company…
News from 2020
MCB, CPB, and Neuroscience Concentrators Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Honor Society!
Serin Baek (CPB ’21), Leena Hamad (MCB ’21), and Katelyn Li (Neuro ’21) and Vanessa Roser (Neuro ‘21) have been elected to the historic and prestigious academic honor…
Rob Lue 05.23.1964 – 11.11.2020
I'm sorry to share heartbreaking news. Rob Lue died yesterday after a battle against a fast-moving cancer, with his husband Alain at his side. Rob was a beloved…
MCO Graduate Program Alum Spotlight: Jenelle Wallace
MCO Graduate Program alum Jenelle Wallace (Ph.D. ‘20) of the Murthy Lab and Beth Stevens’ lab at Boston Children’s Hospital didn’t expect her thesis defense to take place…
Neuroscience Concentrator Amanda Litka (‘21) Named Class Gift Marshal
Each year, student representatives from Harvard’s graduating class are chosen to serve as Marshals on the Senior Class Committee. The Marshals are tasked with organizing graduation events, planning…
RNA Structure Prediction Using Positive and Negative Evolutionary Information [Rivas Lab]
Many functional RNAs adopt structures specific to their function that have been conserved throughout evolution. Knowing the structure of a conserved RNA is an important step towards elucidating…
Happy Halloween from MCB!
This year, Halloween will be different for everyone, including Bessie and Victoria (the rhinos in front of the BioLabs). As everyone organizes their last-minute costumes for Zoom get-togethers…
Investigating How the Octopus ‘Tastes’ by Touch [Bellono Lab]
Octopuses are invertebrates known for their advanced intelligence and sophisticated foraging (or escape!) behaviors. These features are facilitated by a peripherally-distributed nervous system that enables advanced sensation and…
A New View of Mitotic Chromosomes [Kleckner Lab]
Inheritance at the cellular level rests on the fact that one progenitor cell produces two identical daughter cells. The chromosomes are replicated and then, for each chromosome, the…
