July 2025

Welcome new graduate student Melvin Williams, a PhD student in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology graduate program!

June 2025

Jonchee‘s manuscript on how the roles of the gene germ cell less in germline development has evolved across insects, is now published in Developmental Biology! Read the paper here.

June 2025

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!

June 2025

Welcome new graduate student Daniella An Haber, a PhD candidate in the Molecules, Cells and Organisms graduate program!

June 2025

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.

June 2025

Welcome to our summer intern students for 2025! Two high school students and six undergraduate students from various schools, college and universities across the US are joining us for research this summer. Visit their lab pages to learn more about Fatema Abdullah, Naol Adugna, Jovianna Allwood, Max Bennett, Maggie Newman, Moses Rakoff-O’Neill, Alex Xu and Sophia Zhou!

May 2025

Congratulations to Faisal AlZaben for graduating with his Master’s thesis and moving on to his position as Scientist at Transfyr.bio!

May 2025

Congratulations to Beatrice Steinert for defending her thesis and obtaining her PhD!

May 2025

Isobel’s paper reporting a Duplex PCR assay to determine sex and mating status of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), vector of the Lyme disease pathogen, is now published in the Journal of Medical Entomology! Read the paper here.

May 2025

Harsha‘s and Tarun‘s manuscript on the role of chinmo in fly ovary development is posted on bioRxiv! Read the preprint here.

May 2025

Anastasia‘s and John‘s paper on the role of the LOTUS domain in the molecular mechanism of Oskar-mediated germ plasm assembly is posted on bioRxiv! Read the preprint here.

April 2025

Congratulations to Emily Rivard for defending her thesis and obtaining her PhD!

April 2025

Congratulations to Anastasia Repouliou for defending her thesis and obtaining her PhD!

April 2025

Congratulations to Jonchee Kao for defending his thesis and obtaining his PhD!

January 2025

Welcome to Ryuto Sanno! He is a Doctoral student at the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering in Waseda University, Japan and is visiting us to pursue his experimental approaches to uncover the roles of cricket-specific genes while contributing to a deeper understanding of their biological significance.

March 2024

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.

March 2024

MCB features postdoc Olakunle Jaiyesimi in a spotlight article! Read about his professional trajectory, science and creative pursuits here.

February 2024

Cassandra was interviewed by journalist Claudia Dreifus about her career and work! Read about it in Quanta Magazine.

November 2023

Congratulations to Rishabh for winning the best poster prize at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Satellite Meeting on De Novo Gene Birth!

September 2023

Congratulations to Anastasia for winning the MCB Department’s Peralta Essay Prize! Read her captivating and prize-winning essay here.

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