Cassandra was interviewed for a “Meet the Speaker QA&” by Daniel Ming-Kang Lee, a postdoc in the lab of Alex Meissner at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics. Read the interview here!
Isobel‘s molecular method for telling male and female ticks apart, and its relevance to understanding and treating Lyme disease, is discussed by the Harvard Gazette! Read the article here.
Welcome to Enrique Martín-Blanco! He is a senior research group leader at the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona in Spain, and is visiting us on a six-month research sabbatical to investigate the evolution of nervous system morphogenesis in arthropods.
MCB features postdoc Olakunle Jaiyesimi in a spotlight article! Read about his professional trajectory, science and creative pursuits here.
Cassandra was interviewed by journalist Claudia Dreifus about her career and work! Read about it in Quanta Magazine.
Congratulations to Rishabh for winning the best poster prize at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Satellite Meeting on De Novo Gene Birth!
Congratulations to Anastasia for winning the MCB Department’s Peralta Essay Prize! Read her captivating and prize-winning essay here.
Congratulations to postdoc Isobel Ronai, who was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Life Science Research Foundation! Read more about Isobel’s work in this article from the Harvard Gazette.
Welcome new postdoc Damien Markus, an expert in Drosophila developmental genetics!
Cassandra was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America (ESA)!
