News from 2024

Nominations for the 2024 Doty-Losick Prize for Exceptional Service Open Now

MCB’s Community Task Force (CTF) on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging is enthused to announce the return of the Doty-Losick Prize for Exceptional Service. The prize is awarded…

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Nicholas Bellono Unravels the Mysteries of Diverse Sensory Systems: Wins 2024 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience

We are thrilled to announce that MCB’s Nicholas Bellono, has been honored with the 2024 Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).…

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Meiotic Homologous Chromosome Pairing Involves Rapid Local Juxtaposition and Temporal Linkage of Pairing and Crossover Patterning [KLeckner Lab]

Work spearheaded by post-doctoral fellow Tadasu Nozaki, in the Kleckner laboratory, and recently published in Nature (PDF), uses a powerful new approach to examine pairing of homologous chromosomes…

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Neuroscience Concentrators to Lead 2025 Class Committee

[caption]Uzma Issa (l) and Srija Vem[/caption] Neuroscience concentrators Uzma Issa (‘25) and Srija Vem (‘25) have been elected as First and Second Class Marshals respectively. The two will…

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Faculty Wins Welcome Volleyball Match Between Faculty and MCO G1s

The annual volleyball game where the first year MCO graduate students play against the MCB faculty is a beloved tradition at the annual Research Retreat. This year, the…

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Walking Fish and the Origins of Limbs: How Sea Robins Illuminate Evolutionary Wonders

Imagine a fish with legs, not just fins. A creature that strolls along the ocean floor, hunting for prey with an almost eerie precision. This is the remarkable…

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Dániel Barabási’s Artwork on Display This Monday

Dániel Barabási, a former graduate student from the lab of MCB’s Florian Engert and now a neuroscience postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute, is also an accomplished artist. …

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MCB Research Retreat Brings Together Community

Each September, the MCB community gathers for their research retreat, where community members can learn about each other’s research, have fun, meet incoming graduate students and other community…

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