Welcome new graduate student Melvin Williams, a PhD student in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology graduate program!
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!
Welcome new graduate student Daniella An Haber, a PhD candidate in the Molecules, Cells and Organisms graduate program!
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 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!
Congratulations to Faisal AlZaben for graduating with his Master’s thesis and moving on to his position as Scientist at Transfyr.bio!
Congratulations to Beatrice Steinert for defending her thesis and obtaining her PhD!
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.
Harsha‘s and Tarun‘s manuscript on the role of chinmo in fly ovary development is posted on bioRxiv! Read the preprint here.
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.
Congratulations to Emily Rivard for defending her thesis and obtaining her PhD!
Congratulations to Anastasia Repouliou for defending her thesis and obtaining her PhD!
Congratulations to Jonchee Kao for defending his thesis and obtaining his PhD!
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.
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.
