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)!
Congratulations to graduate student Anastasia Repouliou, who was elected as the next chair of the the 2024 Developmental Biology Gordon Research Seminar!
Congratulations to graduate student Emily Rivard, who won a poster award at the 2023 Developmental Biology Gordon Research Conference!
Congratulations to graduate student Rishabh Kapoor, who was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! Read about Rishabh and his work here.
Welcome new postdoc Sonali Gandhi, an expert in the biophysics of lipid-protein interactions!
Congratulations to postdoc Olakunle Jaiyesimi for being awarded a grant from the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund! In this project, we will collaborate with the team of Dr. Amos Abolaji at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and director of the Drosophila Research and Training Center.
Congratulations to postdoc Mandira Katuwal, who has ben selected to join the 2023 cohort of Leading Edge Fellows! Read about Mandira and her life and career here.
Welcome new postdoc Kirsten Gotting, an expert in evolutionary genomics!
Welcome new graduate student Faisal AlZaben, a PhD candidate in the Molecules, Cells and Organisms graduate program!
Welcome new graduate student Rishabh Kapoor, a PhD candidate in the Systems Biology graduate program!
Arpita and Ben‘s manuscript on a novel role for oskar in long term memory in crickets is now posted on bioRxiv! Read the preprint here.
Welcome new postdoc Mandira Katuwal, an expert in entomology, plant pest control and genomics!
Congratulations to postdoc Suhrid Ghosh, who was awarded the 2022 MCB Peralta Science Essay Award for his writing about plasticity in animal development! Read more about Suhrid and his writing here.
