On August 1st, immunologist Kazuki Nagashima joined the MCB faculty. His research program investigates interplay between the gut microbiome, diet, and the immune system. “I’m delighted that Kazuki…
Organisms must take up nutrients and extrude toxins and waste to survive, grow, and reproduce. These import and export functions are performed at cellular membranes by proteins referred…
MCO graduate student Mackenzie Smith of Ya-Chieh Hsu’s lab in SCRB has received a grant from the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The NSF’s GRFP provides fellowships…
MCB faculty Jeeyun Chung has both received a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience and a Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Award. Issued by the Esther A.…
Receiving a fellowship is a key milestone, as well as an important source of funding, for many postdocs. Many labs, such as the Bellono Lab, go out of…
Kazuki Nagashima, who will join MCB as new faculty on August 1st, has won the NOSTER-Science Microbiome Prize. Aimed at early career microbiome researchers, contest entrants write an…
Two new faculty, Kazuki Nagashima and Marissa Gredler, will join MCB as Assistant Professors in the upcoming months. Kazuki Nagashima studies interactions between immunology, the microbiome, and diet.…
Commencing today, July 1st, MCB’s Jeff Lichtman will embark on a new chapter as the Dean of Science for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a role that…
This spring, several postdocs in MCB labs have been awarded fellowships to further their research. Alon Chappleboim of the Ramanathan Lab received a Damon Runyon Fellowship Award, Lyle…
There is a class of AI called reinforcement learning (RL), which works by taking actions in an environment and then learning from the outcome. RL agents have become…
