On July 1st, MCB faculty Rachelle Gaudet will succeed Sean Eddy as department chair. “Rachelle will be an outstanding chair for MCB,” Eddy says. “She and I share…
The piriform cortex in the mammalian brain is the largest cortical region that receives direct sensory input from the olfactory bulb as well as complex top-down inputs from…
The time-honored BioLabs tradition of summer Rhino League volleyball tournaments will continue this summer under the leadership of Dulac Lab Research Assistant Samantha Finkbeiner, who competed in last…
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI), a coalition of researchers in departments across the university who study the lives of microbes. MCB…
On Friday May 5th, MCB will hold its second annual Mayfest in the BioLabs courtyard from noon to 4:00 PM. This year’s theme will be “Cinco de Bio.”…
Science in the News (SITN) is an initiative created to build a communication bridge between science-trainees and a curious public, offering everything from blog posts and graphics to…
Each spring, the Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) honor society selects 24 extraordinarily accomplished juniors to join its ranks. Established in 1779, Harvard’s PBK chapter is one of the…
Cephalopods like octopus and squid are well known for their repertoire of sophisticated behaviors governed by their elaborate nervous systems that are comparable in size to complex vertebrates,…
Students, postdocs, staff, and faculty are invited to join the Lichtman Lab for an Open House on Friday, April 14. The event will include tours of the lab, presentations…
The development of multicellularity has been a remarkable turning point in Earth's biological history, enabling greater morphological diversity and the formation of new organizational structures. This transformation hinged…
