The piriform cortex in the mammalian brain is the largest cortical region that receives direct sensory input from the olfactory bulb as well as complex top-down inputs from…
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Register to Attend “Cinco de Bio” Mayfest by April 28!
On Friday May 5th, MCB will hold its second annual Mayfest in the BioLabs courtyard from noon to 4:00 PM. This year’s theme will be “Cinco de Bio.”…
Science in the News Brings New Research to Broad Audiences
Science in the News (SITN) is an initiative created to build a communication bridge between science-trainees and a curious public, offering everything from blog posts and graphics to…
Garner Lab Discovers How Bacteria Control the Number of Protein Machines Building Their Cell Wall
Experiments by the Garner Lab have yielded insights into how bacteria control their rate of growth of their external cell wall in response to the nutrients they are…
Rats Take Their Time When Learning and Earn More Rewards Overall, Study Finds
A recently published paper, authored by alumni of the Cox Lab and the MCO program, suggests that slow initial decision making can lead to reaping big rewards through…
Denic Lab Discovers an Ancient and Essential Translation Factor Chaperone
Billions of years ago, the first eukaryotic common ancestor split from its archaeal lineage with a distinct set of genes, the majority of which many of us (eukaryotes)…
MCO Graduate Student Spotlight: Anastasia Repouliou (Extavour Lab)
Anastasia Repouliou of the Extavour Lab has wanted to be a scientist since the age of 10, when she set her sights on becoming an astrophysicist. “Nobody knows…
Building Bridges Home: MCO PhD Candidate Creates Puerto Rico-focused STEM Outreach Program
Alexa Pérez-Torres, a doctoral candidate in MCO, has started a STEM outreach program to better prepare students in her home of Puerto Rico for the rigors of graduate…
New Course Taught by Max Prigozhin
I am teaching a new class starting this semester (Fall 2022): Applied Physics 242 / MCB 161 “Introduction to Single-Molecule Biophysics”. The course will cover the structure of…
