🎉 Congrats MCB @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social faculty Jen Landino & Landino Lab postdoc Gregory Schwarz! "Membrane Composition-Dependent Patterning of Rho and F-actin in an Artificial Cell Cortex" was awarded Paper of the Year by @ascbiology.bsky.social and MBoC! geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/ge...

Geisel School of Medicine’s Landino Lab Receives Paper of the Year Award

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and its research journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), Paper of the Year Award recognizes the outstanding scientific achievements of early care…

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🚨Thesis Seminar Alert: Kath Paul Murphy (Havrda and Pioli Labs) will be presenting her thesis tomorrow at 10:30am in Auditorium E!

🚨 Imminent Thesis Seminar Alert: Courtney Hegner from the Sundrud Lab is defending her thesis at her home institution TODAY at 1pm! Check your email for Zoom info.

MCB Students and Alumni: The 4th Annual Gary Heussler Alumni Lecture will be presented Sept. 18th by Megan O'Connor (Green Lab)! The lecture will be followed by a networking event to connect students and alumni. Alumni: If you didn't get an email last Friday, please comment/DM to get on our list!

🚨Thesis Seminar Alert: Elisa Carloni from the Havrda and Skopelja-Gardner labs will be presenting her thesis work tomorrow at 11am in Chilcott!

Check out MCB Faculty George O'Toole's ( @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social ) public Friday Evening Lecture @mblscience.bsky.social on the Cape 🏖️ and online!

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Join us on August 7 for George O'Toole's lecture on the “gut-lung axis” and how it may open new possibilities for treating airway disease with gut-targeted probiotics. Free and open to the public for in-person and virtual attendance. 🔗 More info here: go.mbl.edu/fel

🤩 Kudos to MCB faculty member Mary Lou Guerinot! 🍾

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Professor Mary Lou Guerinot won the Philip N. Benfey Arabidopsis Community Lifetime Achievement Award for her research on how plants absorb metals from soil, and her distinguished record of mentoring.

👏 Kudos to 2 MCB faculty who were promoted to Assoc. Professor and granted tenure this year in the School of Arts and Sciences, Amanda Amodeo and Paul Robustelli!

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#Dartmouth evaluates faculty for promotion and tenure through a rigorous review in three areas: research, teaching, and service. This year, 14 faculty members were promoted to full professor, and 14 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.

🚨 Thesis Seminar Alert: Rezvan Parvizi from the Whitfield Lab will present her thesis work TOMORROW (July 15) at 10am in Auditorium E!

📖 Collaboration from the Nadell Lab, featuring recent MCB alum Jake Holt and MCB student Yixuan (Jack) Peng! 🦠

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#Dartmouth researchers collaborated on a new study identifying how bacteria coordinate the molecular motors that pull in DNA carrying antibiotic resistance genes. The findings point to a potential strategy for disrupting the spread of antibiotic resistance.

BCB Pub Spotlight! This recent @jcb.org study from Lee et al uncovers how formin INF2 - a key actin polymerization factor - is tightly regulated by actin monomer-binding proteins and calcium/calmodulin, resolving a long-standing puzzle about its cellular control mechanism.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Madeline Morrisson (Whitfield Lab) on a successful thesis defense last week! 🥳

🎉 Congrats to MCB Geisel awardees: - Yina Huang and Steve Fiering jointly awarded the Outstanding Citizenship Award for Faculty - Miriam Lee, post-doc in Higgs Lab, awarded the Research Excellence Award for Non-Faculty - Karen Thompson, Senior Research Administrator in M&I, a Leading Forward awardee

“Strong and Thriving”: Geisel Builds Momentum and Prepares for New Dean

“Strong and thriving.” That was Interim Dean Steven Leach’s assessment of the Geisel School of Medicine during the annual State of the Medical School address on Wednesday, June 3, where he reflecte…

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🚨 Thesis Seminar Alert: Mark your calendars for a seminar by Madeline Morrisson (Whitfield Lab) on Wednesday July 1 at 10am in Auditorium E!

Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

We are hiring!! The Dept of Micro and Immuno at Dartmouth has an open position for an Assistant Prof. Link here to apply. Feel free to directly reach out to me with any questions! apply.interfolio.com/187637

Current & past members of the O'Toole lab attending the Boston Bacterial Meeting! (L->R)David Giacalone, Courtney Price, Kaitlyn Barrack (past) and Maggie Prentice (present). (Steve Finkel and I co-organized the BBM from 1996-1999 - attendees then were <75, now 400+?). @bostonbacteria.bsky.social

Ready for a Where's Waldo of MCB grads and faculty? Check out the Frank J. Guarini School of Graduate & Advanced Studies at Dartmouth Investiture album! And who doesn't love some fun hats/robes? 🎓 www.flickr.com/photos/grado...

Guarini School Investiture 2026

Photos: Eli Burakian

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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Nicole Kordana (Cramer Lab) who successfully defended her thesis today! 🥳

🚨 Thesis Seminar Alert: Nicole Kordana from the Cramer Lab will be presenting her research tomorrow at 10am in Chilcott! 🦠

Congratulations to @lacefieldlab.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social #DartmouthGeiselSchoolOfMedicine presenting the #Yeast26 Ira Herskowitz Award Lecture highlighting the link between #meiosis and #autophagy @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

At the Guarini Investiture on Saturday, recent MCB alum Kathryn Schneider Beauchemin was awarded the 2026 John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research! 🥳🤩 graduate.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06...

Kathryn Schneider Beauchemin GR '26 Awarded 2026 John W. Strohbehn Medal

Kathryn Schneider Beauchemin, Guarini '26, has won the 2026 John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research.

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"Graduate education is a process of transformation — a time to learn to think in new ways, to ask penetrating questions, and to push the boundaries of knowledge..." - Guarini Dean Jon Kull 31 of those newly-hooded PhDs were from MCB! 🥳 graduate.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06...

Guarini School Investiture Honors Graduate Students

The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies honored 249 graduate students during its 2026 Investiture ceremony.

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Congratulations to Miriam Lee, a postdoc with the Higgs Lab, for her outstanding research achievements this year! Miriam was recently honored with a Geisel School of Medicine Research Excellence Award for her first-authored paper, published this year in the Journal of Cell Biology.

In Guarini's highlights of poster session winners, MCB student Fiona McEnany! Fiona is a member of the Hoen Lab, studying maternal flu vaccination. Learn more about Fiona's research and what led her to MCB here: guarinigrad.dartmouth.edu/blog/2026/06...

Student Spotlight: Fiona McEnany

Fiona McEnany is a PhD student in the molecular and cellular biology program. Her poster, Neonatal Antibody Transfer: The Effect of Gestational Age at the Time of Maternal Influenza Vaccination, re…

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Excited to have the opportunity to give a Friday Evening Lecture @mblscience.bsky.social this summer - it's a real honor to be part of this fantastic group of speakers. FEL are "old school" - lectures given the scientists AND the general public. www.mbl.edu/events/frida...

Check out this profile of MCB student Johnathan Rodgers Gochicoa to learn about Johnathan, his research in the Pointer Lab, and his motivations for studying brain cancer cells that become more dangerous after radiation - and how to stop them 🧠: home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/05...

Dartmouth NEXT in Action: Johnathan Rodgers Gochicoa | Dartmouth

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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Casey Latario (@rossbenjamind.bsky.social Lab)who successfully defended his thesis today! 🥳

👀 The Department of Microbiology and Immunology (M&I) Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine has ranked 9th nationally for NIH funding in microbiology and immunology programs in the United States! 🤩 geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/ge...

Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health Rise in 2025 NIH Funding Rankings

Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health both rose in the recently released 2025 Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR) rankings, which assesses National Institutes of …

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Thesis Seminar Alert for next week: Casey Latario in the @rossbenjamind.bsky.social Lab will be presenting his research on Monday June 1st at 10am in Haldeman 041! 🦠