Great piece on octopus ribosomes — and on the importance of following unexpected observations and looking in new places to find new things :) current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/octo...
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Identifying the neural basis of innate social behaviors using molecular and genetic tools @Harvard @HHMINEWS
Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Creating true and false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila - Nature Neuroscience
Forgotten memories in Drosophila persist as silent memory traces and can be recovered by reminder cues. Manipulating reminders can create false memories, showing that memory reconstruction flexibly in...
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A Chance Discovery Reveals an Unexpected Twist in One of Biology's Oldest Molecular Machines 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @rishav902.bsky.social @treyjscott.bsky.social @nbellono.bsky.social @danafarbernews.bsky.social @harvard.edu @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
A Chance Discovery Reveals an Unexpected Twist in One of Biology's Oldest Molecular Machines - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Sometimes, groundbreaking discoveries begin with what looks like a failed experiment. Researchers in the lab of MCB Professor Nicholas Bellono have discovered that octopuses possess a unique structura...
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Rebecka Sepela Receives NIH K99 Award to Investigate How Microbes Shape Animal Sensing 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @zombiflied.bsky.social
Rebecka Sepela Receives NIH K99 Award to Investigate How Microbes Shape Animal Sensing - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Rebecka Sepela, a postdoctoral researcher in Nicholas Bellono’s MCB lab, has received an NIH Pathway to Independence (K99/R00) Award to study how animals derive information from their external […]
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#DBfeature A tribute to Gail R Martin, mouse geneticist and mentor extraordinaire (April 12, 1944 - Feb 9, 2026) By Alexandra Joyner doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2026.05.007
57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)
Former MCB Students Named Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @craigwmcfarland.bsky.social @harvard.edu @ox.ac.uk @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @gershbrain.bsky.social
Former MCB Students Named Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Two recent Harvard graduates with ties to the MCB department have been named recipients of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars fellowship at Stanford University, joining a global cohort of […]
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MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience
MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86
Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...
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MCB Faculty Receive Star-Friedman Challenge Awards for Innovative Research 🔬 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @hekstralab.bsky.social @mokhalil.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvard.edu
MCB Faculty Receive Star-Friedman Challenge Awards for Innovative Research - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Several MCB-affiliated faculty members have been selected as recipients of the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research, one of Harvard’s most prestigious internal funding competition...
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How Experience Shapes the Social Brain—One Tiny Fish at a Time 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @royharpaz.bsky.social @engertlab.bsky.social @morganphillips.bsky.social @harvard.edu @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @nature.com @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
How Experience Shapes the Social Brain—One Tiny Fish at a Time - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Why do animals respond differently to the same social situation? According to new research from the MCB lab of Florian Engert, the answer may depend as much on […]
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David Crews highly original work in unorthodox model systems had a great influence in the field of behavioral neuroendocrinology and on my own thinking. When we found male and female behavior circuits in the brain of both sexes in mice, he described it as old wine in a new bottle, he was right!... 🙏
SBN on Bluesky@sbn-bsky.bsky.social · 4w agoThank you for the heartwarming and fascinating talks about "natural" experiments and scientific life lessons taught by the late David Crews from Dr. Isaac Miller-Crews (feat. the infamous poncho), Dr. Bob Mason, Dr. John Godwin, and Dr. Steve Phelps during Symposium 6!
adamzyglis I’m thrilled to announce I’ve won the 2025 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Cartooning! It’s an honor to be recognized again by the Society of Professional Journalists, an organization that promotes and celebrates excellence in journalism around the country.
I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality. But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🧵 1/
2/2) In her remarks, The Kavli Foundation President Cynthia Friend asked, “What will the next 250 years of scientific progress reveal to humanity and how will we use that knowledge?” See the conversations that unfolded here: www.nasonline.org/event/revolu... #America250
Revolutions in Science: Discovery, Imagination, and the Future – NAS
Revolutions in Science: Discovery, Imagination, and the Future As the United States marked its 250th anniversary, the National Academy of Sciences convened scientific leaders, innovators, and emerging...
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The Kavli Foundation@kavlifoundation.org · last mo.(1/2) As the U.S. marks 250 years, scientific discovery remains central to our future. The Kavli Foundation was honored to support “Revolutions in Science: Discovery, Imagination, and the Future,” hosted by @nationalacademies.org and @smithsonianmag.bsky.social. 📷 Kevin Allen
A wonderful piece to announce our new department chair, Nao Uchida: congratulations and best wishes @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvardmcb.bsky.social @harvard.edu and all my thanks to @rachellegaudet.bsky.social for her departmental leadership of the last 3 years! 🙏
Harvard_MCB@harvardmcb.bsky.social · last mo.Naoshige Uchida to Lead MCB as New Department Chair 🧠🧬🔬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvard.edu @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social
It is out 😍 check it out!! Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning. @cschwayer.bsky.social @silviabarbiero.bsky.social @davidbrueckner.bsky.social @ehannezo.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Multiscale integration of tissue and chromatin context converts cell heterogeneity into stable intestinal patterning
During regeneration, tissues must translate transient cellular variability into stable spatial organization. Tissue architecture generates a density-dependent window of heterogeneity in the mechanosen...
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Two Decades in the Making: New Study Reveals How Brain Function Shapes Its Own Structure 🧠🧬🔬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @nature.com @harvard.edu @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @yaronmr.bsky.social
Two Decades in the Making: New Study Reveals How Brain Function Shapes Its Own Structure - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
After nearly 20 years of meticulous research, a team of Harvard scientists has published findings in Nature Neuroscience (PDF) that fundamentally challenge how we think about brain development. […]
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Very excited for our new paper, now out in @cellcellpress.bsky.social! /🧵 The protein Tau forms intracellular toxic tangles in neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and Tauopathies. Tau pathology slowly spreads from cell-to-cell but the mechanisms are not clear /1 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Arc mediates intercellular tau transmission via extracellular vesicles
Tau pathology spreads cell to cell, but the mechanisms of intercellular tau transmission remain unclear. We find that the neuronal gene Arc is critica…
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I just donated, please do the same and spread the word: this is an amazing organization....
Lydia Mulvey@lydiamulvey.bsky.social · last mo.World Central Kitchen is en route to Venezuela to provide hot meals for those affected by the devastating twin earthquakes as well as first responders, a vital, life-saving service if you are able and funds allow, you can donate at the link below donate.wck.org/campaign/815...
A great new lab is opening soon in NYC, looking forward to seeing @jzv.bsky.social future endeavors!
Jacob Zavatone-Veth@jzv.bsky.social · last mo.Tremendously excited to announce that I will be joining @rockefeller.edu as an Assistant Professor and Head of Lab starting in January 2027! My group will be broadly focused on theoretical neuroscience, and mathematical problems in neural computation in the large.
Congrats Roy, new JCC Fellow in the lab!... @jcchildsfund.bsky.social @harvardmcb.bsky.social
Harvard_MCB@harvardmcb.bsky.social · last mo.MCB Postdoctoral Researchers Matthew Capek and Ruoyu Chen Awarded Jane Coffin Childs Fellowships 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @matthewcapek.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @jcchildsfund.bsky.social @harvard.edu
What if one vaccine could protect against an entire family of viruses rather than a single strain? In an @economist.com article on efforts to develop "everything vaccines," Pamela Bjorkman @caltech.edu Kavli Nanoscience Institute is highlighted for pioneering work. www.economist.com/science-and-...
Scientists are working on “everything vaccines”
A single jab could protect against a wide range of pathogens
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1/ Rabies remains one of the deadliest infections on earth. Yet in California, almost every human case is preventable. With summer wildlife activity increasing and bats accounting for more than 90% of our animal rabies cases, here's what you need to know along with a few other public health updates👇
How did animal senses evolve? Max Coyle et al. used choanoflagellates to uncover TRPW, ancient ion channels predating animal somatosensory receptors. TRPW links microbial prey ecology to evolution of receptor structure, sensory organelles, & multicellular processing. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Molecular biologist & geneticist Susan Lindquist (b. #OTD in 1949) was a pioneer in studying protein folding. Her research demonstrated protein folding errors contribute heavily to neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's & Parkinson's diseases. National Medal of Science in 2010. #WomenInSTEM
