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Department News
Below are articles from various sources about members of MCB and their research.
July 19, 2016
What's so great about choanoflagellates? MCB Professor Nicole King explains and reveals why she has dedicated her research career to figuring out how the first multicellular animal life came to be.
July 15, 2016
MCB Assistant Professor Craig Miller and collaborators have found evidence that the very first bony fish on Earth was susceptible to arthritis. This basic research may help approaches in therapeutic research related to arthritis.
July 13, 2016
In their paper in Current Biology, MCB Professor Marla Feller and her collaborators show that visual experience is necessary for populations of Direction Selective Ganglion Cells (DSGCs) to become tuned to movement along the cardinal axes.
July 12, 2016
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Stephen Brohawn and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology Evan Miller are recipients of Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences.
July 11, 2016
Listen to a podcast, hosted by the Journal of Immunology, where Professor David H. Raulet discusses the importance of fundamental research. It highlights how some clinical therapies for cancer have emerged from basic science, performed decades previously, that had no obvious connection to cancer at the time it was published.
Listen to the podcast here.
July 05, 2016
G. Steven Martin has retired and now Michael Botchan is serving as Interim Dean of Biological Sciences. Our MCB Co-Chairs have had a "changing of the guard" as well -- David Raulet and Richard Harland have handed the reigns over to David Drubin and Nipam Patel. Richard Harland will now serve as Senior Associate Dean of Biological Sciences.
June 28, 2016
Watch the shared ceremony with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, the Biophysics Graduate Group, the Endocrinology Graduate Group and the Computational Biology Graduate Group. Congratulations to all the graduates!