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MCO STUDENT FINDS CAREER PATH THROUGH OUTREACH

MCO graduate student Christina Saak of the Gibbs Lab loves to teach. The international student from Germany applied to Harvard on a whim, never expecting to be accepted,…

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MCB’S CATHERINE DULAC INDUCTED INTO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Elected at last year’s annual meeting, Catherine Dulac was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) at the Academy’s 153rd annual meeting this April. She is the…

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PERSISTENCE REWARDED [BERG LAB]

I have been intrigued by bacterial flagellar motors since 1973, when Bob Anderson and I argued that bacterial flagellar filaments are rigid helices driven at their base, rather…

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MCB PROFESSOR JOHN DOWLING PUBLISHES VISIONARY BOOK

MCB Research Professor of Neurosciences John E. Dowling has published a book on vision and ocular diseases with his brother, ophthalmologist Joseph L. Dowling of the Rhode Island…

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MCB LECTURER RECEIVES Q AWARD

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies and MCB lecturer Martin Samuels has received a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Award from the Bok Center, or “Q Award,” which distinguishes…

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FOLLOW YOUR NOSE….. BUT NOT ALWAYS [MURTHY LAB]

Animals balance efficiency and flexibility during natural behavior to make their decisions in different contexts. In a recent study published in Current Biology (PDF) the Murthy lab has…

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ON APRIL 29, DENIS DUBOULE PRESENTS 2016 BLOCH LECTURE

This year’s Bloch Lecture will be given by Denis Duboule, a pioneer in revealing the roles of Hox genes in development and evolution. Duboule earned his PhD in…

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