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The MCB department is pleased to announce the tenure of Sharad Ramanathan, Associate professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Physics. Ramanathan embraces the physicist’s ideal…
(L to R) Askin Kocabas, Hannah Shen, and Sharad Ramanathan Can we understand the dynamics of the nervous system of any animal well enough to be able to…
(L to R) Sharad Ramanathan, Drew Robson, Ben Jordan, Alexander Schier, Patrick Müller, and Katherine Rogers How do zebras get their stripes and leopards their spots? Why is…
Sharad Ramanathan Florian Engert Two MCB faculty members, Florian Engert and Sharad Ramanathan, are recipients of the 2011 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award Program. This program supports individual scientists…
Sharad Ramanathan Sharad Ramanathan, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Assistant Professor of Applied Physics (SEAS) has been selected as one of 22 Pew Scholars in…
A fundamental question in developmental biology is how multi-potent cells choose a fate. While we know a lot about how cell states are maintained through growing amounts of…
(L to R) Areez Mody and Sharad Ramanathan During evolution certain gene families have increased in number following gene duplication by repeatedly finding novel functions even though random…