Catherine Dulac

Common Plant Proteins Found to Calm the Immune System - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology A new study co-led by MCB’s Kazuki Nagashima and published in Science Immunology (PDF) identifies plant-derived molecules that help quiet the immune system, preventing inflammatory reactions to the […...

Common Plant Proteins Found to Calm the Immune System 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Call for Nominations: 2026 MCB Mentorship Award - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology The MCB Community Task Force (CTF) is excited to announce that nominations for the 2026 MCB Mentorship Award are now open! This annual award recognizes individuals within the […]

Call for Nominations: 2026 MCB Mentorship Award #AcademicSky #higherEd
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The Brain Prize 2026 David Ginty HHMI Investigator Harvard Medical School

Thrilled to see #HHMIInvestigator — & now 2026 @brainprize.org winner — David Ginty recognized by The Lundbeck Foundation for his pioneering work on the cellular architecture of touch & pain, which paved the way for a new generation of targeted pain therapies: bit.ly/4sbowiN.

Amazing work!

Wendy Valencia Montoya Receives Weintraub Graduate Student Award for Groundbreaking Thesis on the Evolution of Sensory Worlds - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Wendy Valencia Montoya has been named a recipient of the prestigious 2026 Harold M. Weintraub Award in recognition of her doctoral thesis, an ambitious and interdisciplinary body of […]

Wendy Valencia Montoya Receives Weintraub Graduate Student Award for Groundbreaking Thesis on the Evolution of Sensory Worlds 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Congratulations!… what an amazing journey 👏🥂

Brain and Heart in Parallel: Zebrafish Study Reframes the Biology of Fear - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology In a new study published in Cell Reports, (PDF) researchers from the labs of MCB’s Florian Engert and Mark Fishman of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative […]

Brain and Heart in Parallel: Zebrafish Study Reframes the Biology of Fear 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Would love to try that baguette!....

The Secret to Schooling: How Internal States Shape Social Interactions during Schooling - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology A school of fish can look like a single, flowing organism—dozens of bodies turning and aligning in near-perfect synchrony. But that seamless choreography emerges from many individual animals […]

The Secret to Schooling: How Internal States Shape Social Interactions during Schooling 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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This is a public service announcement: Clear your sidewalks after it snows. I just had surgery to repair a hand injury from a fall on the ice last March.

A amazing new story by @cate-cholamine.bsky.social led by @forrestdrogers.bsky.social on the environmental modulation of paternal behavior in African striped mice, with a newly discovered molecular player of parental control, Agouti! Terrific study, congrats to all authors!...

Murthy Lab to Host Open House Showcasing the Science of Smell on March 6 - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology On March 6, the lab of MCB’s Venkatesh Murthy will open its doors to the Harvard community for a special Lab Open House, offering visitors an inside look […]

Murthy Lab to Host Open House Showcasing the Science of Smell on March 6 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Doty Lecture to Feature Chromosome Pioneer Kazuhiro Maeshima - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is pleased to announce this year’s Paul Doty Lecture, featuring renowned chromosome biologist Kazuhiro Maeshima of Japan’s National Institute of Geneti...

Doty Lecture to Feature Chromosome Pioneer Kazuhiro Maeshima #STEM 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd #Chromatin
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Very sad news. Gail Martin (1944-2026) was a figure in developmental biology. She pioneered the field of ES cells.
A great colleague, a friend and a lovely person.

Portrait of Dr Carla Shatz, a pioneer who mapped how the brain builds itself. A member of @nationalacademies.org, her work on neural circuits reveals how we become who we are.

More: explorers.com/carla-shatz/

#sciArt #NationalAcademies #Science #Neuroscience @nam.edu @nasonline.org

Poem for a snowy Boston. Winter Psalm by Richard Hoffman. #poetry

Can tell how bad it is from 1st sentence: “While peer review is an essential part of funding meritorious scientific research, it is also important to consider other factors…”

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday
www.nature.com/articles/nme...

New preprint from our group (collaboration with @sueyeonchung.bsky.social) showing that discriminating odor components within a complex mixture is constrained by neural sensitivity rather than background interference - likely due to sparse representations at the front end.

Vagal blood volume receptors compensate for haemorrhage and posture change - Nature A vagal reflex to blood volume changes in the heart involves PIEZO2 and helps to stabilize blood pressure in an upright posture and after blood loss.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... beautiful work from Stephen Liberles’ lab on neural mechanisms of sensing blood volume.

Two MCB-Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellows Awarded Harvard Brain Initiative Fellowships - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Two postdoctoral researchers affiliated with MCB have been awarded highly competitive Postdoctoral Pioneer Fellowships from the Harvard Brain Initiative (HBI), recognizing innovative projects that spa...

Two MCB-Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellows Awarded Harvard Brain Initiative Fellowships 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal!
Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Kids, learn Biology this Summer: an amazing opportunity for middle schoolers!...
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MCB Postdoc Surabhi Sreenivas Awarded ADA Fellowship for Type 2 Diabetes Research - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Surabhi Sreenivas, an MCB postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Maxim Prigozhin has been awarded a three-year American Diabetes Association Postdoctoral Fellowship to study how the liver regulates […]

MCB Postdoc Surabhi Sreenivas Awarded ADA Fellowship for Type 2 Diabetes Research 🧠 🧪🧬 🔬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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It is an incredible honour to receive this prize. I thank all members of my lab over the years, and my wonderful colleagues and collaborators, who have joined, inspired and supported me on this exciting journey. ❤️ Biozentrum is a fantastic place to do science!

Congratulations @doetschlab.bsky.social !!!.... so well deserved 👏🥂🎉

Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn The dorsal horn of the mammalian spinal cord is organized into laminae where each layer is populated by different neuron types, has distinctive circuit connections, and plays specialized roles in beha...

Excited to share @rbrianroome.bsky.social ‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord @science.org

This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thrilled to start my lab at the @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social @mit.edu and to join such a special community of creative and inspiring colleagues. The Sullivan Lab asks (1) how and (2) why infections make us sick, bridging immunology and neuroscience to understand host defense at the organism scale

Ascona meetings on neural circuits are amazing conferences in a beautiful setting in Switzerland spanning all scales from genetics and micro-circuit cracking to high level cognition. Check asconacircuits.org for the 2026 program and register soon, as it typically reaches capacity very quickly 🧠🧪

Just finished my first book of the year: a sober, courageous, yet emotional, eye-opening and haunting narrative by an Ukrainian writer, father and staunch pacifist who enlisted the day his country was invaded. A must read for anyone concerned by current world affairs...