News from 2025

MCB Has an Assistant Professor Search Underway. Apply!

We seek applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. MCB is a tight-knit, supportive and collaborative research community with interests in…

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Summer Students Experience Research Life through SROH Program

Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH) offers research experiences in Harvard labs to undergraduates from other colleges. The goal is to give participating students a sense of what…

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Graduate Student Spotlight: Alexa Pérez Torres

As an MCO graduate student in the Murray Lab, Alexa Pérez Torres is investigating what happens when you break the cell cycle rules in yeast. She also serves…

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Rhino League Volleyball Finals Coming Up This Friday (August 23)

All summer long, teams of Harvard community members have been gathering to compete in the annual Rhino League volleyball tournament. Though athletes from across Harvard take part, the…

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Naoshige Uchida Becomes Director of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience, Taking Over from Jeff Lichtman

MCB faculty Naoshige Uchida will succeed MCB faculty Jeff Lichtman as Head Tutor of Neuroscience. Each undergraduate concentration at Harvard has a Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)—also known…

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Gabby Thomas (Neuro ‘19) Wins Trio of Olympic Golds in Paris

Harvard grad Gabby Thomas (Neuro ‘19) won three gold Olympic medals at the Paris Olympics this month. She chased down her first gold for her individual performance in…

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Lichtman Lab Pairs Immunolabeling with Connectomic Data

A team of researchers from the Lichtman Lab, led by Program in Neuroscience (PiN) graduate student turned joint postdoc in the Lichtman and Dulac Labs Xiaomeng Han, has…

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Faculty Spotlight: Kazuki Nagashima

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…

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Systematic Analyses Find That Related Transport Proteins Choreograph Their Conformational Dance from a Small Set of Common Moves

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…

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