News from 2025

Mini-Course Explores Scientific Controversy and the Evolution of Ideas

Harvard MCO PhD student Jeremy Koob and his longtime friend, Alexander Mitchell, an MD/PhD student at the University of Connecticut, recently co-taught a mini-course offered through  Harvard’s Graduate…

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James Berger will Deliver the Paul Doty Lecture on April 10

This year, James M Berger, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will return to Harvard to present the Doty Lecture, “Still Unscrambling the Puzzle of Biological Machines:…

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SAVE THE DATE – MCB Community Forum on April 25

The MCB Community Forum takes place once each semester. This spring, MCB Chair Rachelle Gaudet will lead the meeting on Friday, April 25, at 4:00 pm in the…

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Dulac Lab Postdocs Awarded Grants from NIH and Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF)

Two postdocs from the Dulac Lab have recently been awarded fellowships. Changwoo Seo was selected for an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, and Mostafizur Rahman received a…

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Mara Casebeer to Present Science Talk on Neuron Growth at the Natural History Museum

This Saturday, March 29, Harvard PhD candidate Mara Casebeer, a student in Daniel Needleman’s MCB and Applied Physics lab, will give a public Science Spotlights talk at the…

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Decoding Learning: How Cues and Rewards Shape Behavior and Dopamine Signals

A new study from Naoshige Uchida's MCB lab provides new insight into how the brain processes contingency during associative learning. Published in Nature Neuroscience (PDF), the study demonstrates…

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Call for Nominations: 2025 MCB Mentorship Award

The MCB Community Task Force (CTF) is excited to announce that nominations for the 2025 MCB Mentorship Award are now open! This annual award recognizes individuals within the…

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New Deep Learning Framework Reveals Hidden Structure in Neural Activity

Understanding how neurons encode information is one of the most pressing challenges in neuroscience. A new study from a multidisciplinary team including MCB researchers and those from the…

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MCB to Host 2025 Prather Lectures Featuring Feng Zhang

This year, MCB will host the annual John M. Prather Lectures in Biology, a series of three talks inspired by a bequest to Harvard by the 19th-century Harvard-trained…

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Avoid or ignore? How the Brain Copes with a Potential Threat

When faced with an unfamiliar threat, animals must make split-second decisions: should they flee to avoid potential harm or push forward in pursuit of a reward? This fundamental…

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