When we think of the chemical elements of life, the “big four” of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen leap to mind, and rightly so, as they make up…
Tessa Montague, originally from London and now a fifth-year MCO graduate student in the Schier lab, is not afraid of work. Besides maintaining her own graduate research and…
The complex circuits of the brain are built from thousands of types of neurons. More than a century ago, Santiago Ramon y Cajal founded what we now call…
Ryunosuke Amo Naoshige Uchida lab Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Project title: Elucidating the neural circuit mechanism underlying prediction error computation in dopamine neurons…
With support from two leading Latinx* organizations, MCO students Gonzalo Gonzalez-Del Pino, Linda Honaker, and Alexandra Mattei participated in Step into Stem (SiS): Exposing Girls to STEM Careers…
Matt Smith, a second-year graduate student in Ben de Bivort’s lab and member of the MCO graduate program, pulls a large manila envelope out of his backpack. He…
During brain development, neurons connect with each other using branched projections called dendrites. As a dendrite extends away from its neuron’s cell body to connect with dendrites from…
Neurons connect with each other to form complex circuits that underlie mental activities. Mapping these connections to obtain a so-called wiring diagram is an essential step in learning…
This historical perspective describes research on nano-scale pores initiated by Prof. David Deamer (UC Santa Cruz) and myself. Many researchers were stimulated by the early papers from Deamer’s…
Despite the worldwide proliferation of STEM careers, Latin Americans remain underrepresented in the global scientific community. “I think the common denominator for each of us,” suggests Mohammed…
