On Monday, May 5th, Caroline Rende, Associate Director, Graduate Career Exploration with Harvard’s Mignone Center for Career Success will give a presentation tailored for graduate students, but open…
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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…
Dulac Lab Identifies “Loneliness” Neurons in the Hypothalamus
Loneliness is encoded in the brain in a way that closely resembles the neural architectures governing drives like thirst and hunger, researchers from the Dulac Lab report. A…
How a Novel Chaperone Drives Folding of an Essential Protein at Its Inception
Lurking in our genomes are thousands of uncharacterized protein-coding genes. Even more genes can be included in this uncharacterized category if we were to exclude general one- or…
How to Align Neural Representations
The animal body is bilaterally symmetric, and most sense organs (eyes, ears and nose) occur in pairs. These paired sensory organs provide independent measurements of the environment in…
MCO Graduate Student Spotlight: Ethan Glantz
MCO graduate student Ethan Glantz is motivated by curiosity and a desire to make discoveries. He was recently awarded an NIH F31 fellowship, also known as the Ruth…
MCO Graduate Student Spotlight: Eddy Tzintzun-Tapia
First-year MCO graduate student Eddy Tzintzun-Tapia has received an award from the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The program’s mission is to promote a diverse scientific workforce…
Happy Halloween from MCO G1s!
Every year, the MCO G1s have the opportunity to dress up the rhino statues outside the BioLabs for Halloween. This year, Bessie and Victoria (the rhinos) are going…
Faculty Wins Welcome Volleyball Match Between Faculty and MCO G1s
The annual volleyball game where the first year MCO graduate students play against the MCB faculty is a beloved tradition at the annual Research Retreat. This year, the…
MCB Research Retreat Brings Together Community
Each September, the MCB community gathers for their research retreat, where community members can learn about each other’s research, have fun, meet incoming graduate students and other community…
