Giving zebrafish ketamine can stop them from “giving up” during tasks where trying to swim is futile. A new study led by researchers from the Engert Lab and…
Tag: Florian Engert
Postdocs Awarded Funding from the NIH and Branco Weiss
For many postdocs, research fellowships are a vital form of funding. This semester, three postdocs from MCB labs have recently been awarded fellowships. Bongmin Bae of the Whipple…
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. …
Sign-ups for Rhino League 2024 Are Open!
Every summer, Harvard community members come together to compete and to root for their colleagues in the annual Rhino League volleyball competition. Colorfully-named teams duke it out for…
Nature Over Nurture: Functional Neuronal Circuits Emerge in the Absence of Developmental Activity [Engert Lab]
Understanding how functional neuronal circuits are established during development is a fundamental challenge in neuroscience. During development, the complex neuronal circuitry of the brain arises from limited information…
Faculty Florian Engert and Bence Ölveczky to Compete in Clipper Round the World Sailing Race
MCB faculty Florian Engert and OEB faculty Bence Ölveczky are spending their sabbaticals on the high seas, competing in a sailboat race around the world. They will launch…
Luis Hernandez-Nunez Receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Career Award at the Scientific Interface
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) has chosen postdoc Luis Hernandez-Nunez of the Engert Lab as a recipient of its prestigious Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) grant.…
Postdocs Shuonan He, Luis Hernandez-Nunez, Ding Liu, Brandon Logeman, and Isobel Ronai Awarded Fellowships
Several postdocs from MCB Labs have received prestigious fellowships that will support their ongoing research. To learn more about these postdocs and their fellowships, read on! Shuonan He…
How Fish Learn to Ignore Inconsequential Events [Engert Lab]
As a graduate student in the Gabbiani lab at Baylor College of Medicine, I studied how locust brains processed sensory information about an approaching predator and gave rise…
MCB Postdoc Developing New Field of Systems Neurocardiology
Luis Hernandez-Nunez, postdoc in the Engert lab in MCB, is at the forefront of a new field he calls Systems neurocardiology, a combination of control theory, systems neuroscience,…
