TODAY! MCDB's Josien van Wolfswinkel is today's special seminar speaker! Join us in BASS 305 at 3:30 PM to hear her talk, “Forever young: the molecular basis of biological resilience” yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

Usmaan Siddiqi, MCDB junior, has been named a Goldwater Scholar! This award is given to 454 of the nation's top scholars to pursue research careers in the fields of natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Congratulations, Usmaan!

Congratulations to Siggy Nachtergaele for receiving the Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation Award!

Friendly reminder! The Business Office is closed today in observance of the Good Friday holiday.

Congratulations to our Bake-Off winners!! 🥇Benoit Mermaz - Tiramisu Cookies 🥈Lam Vo - Carrot Cake 🥉Taylor Peterson - Banana Pudding Thank you to everyone who participated! Want to plan more events like this? Join the MCDB Community Committee! Next meeting: Tomorrow | 4PM | YSB C143

Nawaphat Malaiwong (O'Donnell Lab) is our next presenter at BioBlitz! Tomorrow, 9 AM | YSB 352 Want to be the next speaker? There is ONE OPEN SPOT for April 7. Sign up at the link below! buff.ly/eVUtaBw

Next up in our Seminar Series: Geraldine Seydoux, Ph.D. from John Hopkins School of Medicine! Dr. Seydoux’s research focuses on the development of the germline. 🦠 Wednesday, March 25 | 3:30 PM | BASS 305

Want to learn about on-going research from future leaders of biological research? The MCDB Graduate Research in Progress (RIP) forum is a fantastic place to start! The final RIP of the semester is on March 27, 2026 in OC Marsh Lecture Hall. Students will be presenting from 1PM-5PM.

Sidney Altman, professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, made one of the most groundbreaking discoveries in molecular science - RNA can function as an enzyme. @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social explores the impact of Altman's research on today's advancements

A fantastic way to support your peers is by showing up! Anabel Schweitzer (Isaacs Lab) defends their thesis, "Engineering Human Genomes Through Multiplexed Precision Base Editing And Temporally Controlled Crispr Systems" today in HOPE 103 at 1PM 🔬 🧬

Major shoutout to Yiting Xu, Abigail Benvie, and Nicole Castano for their amazing research featured in Cell Reports! 🦠✨ This research shows that glutamine is key in calming down inflammation and helping us heal skin wounds by suppressing neutrophil‑recruitment genes. 🔬💥

UPCOMING SEMINAR! ✨️ Karen Oegma (UC San Diego) starts off the spring half of the MCDB Seminar Series! Join us on March 4th in BASS 305 at 3:30 PM for this exciting talk!

MCDB Seminar Series Returns! Check out this semester's upcoming speakers. Wednesdays | 3:30pm | Bass 305 ✨️ 👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬 🔬

✨️ This Friday come hear about the current research in MCDB from our Graduate Students! February 6 | 1 - 4:30pm | OC Marsh 🔬 🧬

✨ There are still slots open to present this spring this spring! ✨ BioBlitz is a fantastic way to practice presenting your research in a safe, encouraging environment. 🌱 🧪 🔬 🦠 🔗 Sign up link in bio

CANCELED!☕ ❄️ Due to the winter storm, today's Coffee Hour has been canceled❄️ Stay warm and safe!

✨ Looking for new ways to get involved in the new year?✨ Check out our community events! From socializing 👫 to building presentation skills🗣️ , there's something for everyone! Links in bio #MCDBatYale #chalktalks

Imaging-based CRISPR genome screening allows effects of cell-regulating molecules & modifications to be revealed in live & fixed cells – applied here to frog embryo cilia 📹 Jingbo Sun et al @davidbreslowlab.bsky.social @yale.edu in @cp-devcell.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...

MCDB in the News!📰 The Mogessie (@binyammogessie.bsky.social) lab's 2025 paper published in Nov. 2025 is one of several studies highlight by The Washington Post in their article on recent research in female reproduction.

❄️ Happy Holidays!❄️ The MCDB Business Office will be closed from Wednesday, December 24, 2025-Thursday, January 1, 2026. Have a happy and safe break! 🎄 ❄️ ☃️

REMINDER: The MCDB Business Office will be closed November 27-28 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Binyam Mogessie (@binyammogessie.bsky.social) and Jiyeon Leem (@jiyeonleem.bsky.social) from Yale MCDB reveal a new way to mimic egg aging in the lab, uncovering why chromosome errors rise with maternal age. 🧬✨ buff.ly/FMUoFhD

MCDB Assistant Professor Harry McNamara is combining developmental biology, neurobiology, and biophysics to answer basic science questions about how cells communicate. buff.ly/T6TwAuw

🌿 Calling All Plant Enthusiasts! 🌺 Join us at the Sussex Symposium this Friday for a day dedicated to plant biology! 🌳 🎙️ Don't miss the keynote by Dr. Ken Birnbaum! 🗓️ 9 AM - 5 PM 📍 Jones Auditorium, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

We are still accepting applications! Apply by November 1 for full consideration

🍭 TRICK OR TREAT!🎃 The MCDB Trick or Treat Trail is BACK! Dress to impress: the best costume gets a prize! 👻 🎁 🗓️ October 31 | Starts at Noon 📍 KT 307 ➡️ YSB Floors 1-4

🎉 Introducing the New and Improved MCDB Website! 🚀 🆕 What’s New? Sleek, easy-to-navigate design ✨ Highlighted groundbreaking research 🔬 with linked news articles and faculty profiles 👩🔬👨🔬 Explore the new MCDB website now and discover all the exciting updates! 📲💻 #YaleMCDB #Biology mcdb.yale.edu

MCDB SEMINAR KICK-OFF! 🔬👩🏻🔬 This year's seminar series begins with Sarah E O'Connor from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology! Oct. 2 | 3:30 PM | Bass 305 "How Nature Synthesizes Molecules" Hosted by Stavroula Hatzios

Calling all biologists! 📢 Is your research at the cutting edge of synthetic biology, genomics or AI? Apply to join our team of world-class scholars!🔬🦠 Tenure-track Assistant Professor Anticipated Start Date: July 1, 2026 #hiring #genomics #biology apply.interfolio.com/172428

Congrats to postdoc Zhe Zhou on her paper out today in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social showing that gut bacteria cross-feed a common dietary antioxidant to produce energy under anaerobic conditions. Thanks to collaborators Angela Jiang and Xiaofang Jiang at NIH. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to @craigmcrews.bsky.social on his award from Yale's Colton Center for Autoimmunity

New work ‪@currentbiology.bsky.social from the labs of James Jeanne ‪@yaleneuro.bsky.social‬ and Thierry Emonet @mcdb-yale.bsky.social‬ show that some fruit fly neurons 🧠 can be multifunctional: the same neuron can tell fruit flies to walk towards the smell of rotting fruit and speed up.

Congratulations to Ken Nelson and Paul Forscher on their retirements! Their collective impact on MCDB cannot be emphasized enough.

Welcome Freya Wencker, MCDB’s newest lecturer! Freya has been hired as an Lecturer and will begin teaching in Fall 2025 and will oversee the FACS core facility. She will teach Laboratory in Nucleic Acids I and II as well as co-teach the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Congratulations to Ronit Kaufman on her promotion to Sr. Lecturer! Ronit joined the MCDB faculty in 2018 and has been an integral part of the success of MCDB 1050 - Biology, the World, and US.

SEND US YOUR DESIGNS! The MCDB Logo Contest ends on July 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM. Send your designs to [email protected] See full guidelines and submission instructions at mcdb.yale.edu

Congratulations to @davidbreslowlab.bsky.social on his recent promotion to Associate Professor on Term! David joined the MCDB faculty in 2017 and has since made incredible discoveries in the study of the primary cilia in cell homeostasis and human disease.

Congrats to Elizabeth on winning the Spangler Prize for her PhD thesis! 🥳

In preprints: rethinking the foundations of the ovarian reserve Andrea Rix and Binyam Mogessie @binyammogessie.bsky.social @mcdb-yale.bsky.social discuss a recent #preprint from Wamaitha et al. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Join us in congratulating Tom Pollard on receiving the 2025 Connecticut Medal of Science! Tom and his wife Patty stopped by campus while in town for the award ceremony. 📸 : Joe Wolenski

Jiyeon Leem (Mogessie Lab) has been awarded a Fellowship from the Lalor Foundation for pursuing her research project ‘Uncovering the origins of egg aneuploidy associated with female reproductive aging’. Congratulations, Jiyeon!

From the office of the President: Help defend Yale's teaching, research, and scholarship president.yale.edu/posts/2025-0...

Congratulations to our MCDB Graduates! Elizabeth Mae Gordon Will Krause Ted Leung Garrett Sager Alicia Stein Han Wan Yiting Xu gsas.yale.edu/celebrating-...

Congratulations to all our MCDB graduates!

MCDB graduate Angelin Mathew spoke with YaleNews about her time at Yale and her next steps as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. news.yale.edu/2025/05/13/y...

Congratulations to MCDB Ph.D. students Lam Vo and Emily Siff on their selection as 2025 Annie Le Fellows! This fellowship, created in memory of Annie Le, is awarded to doctoral candidates in the BBS who excel in research and improving the world around them.

Members of the Jacob Lab Wenxin Yuan and Yi-chun Huang are the first and second author on a new study that reveals a new mechanism with relevance to a pediatric brain cancer. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40229276/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40229276/

Congratulations to the 2024-25 Spangler Award Recipients! Ted Leung, Gendron Lab Elizabeth Gordon, Hatzios Lab Garret Sager, Clark Lab

MCDB's France Moore has been named a Prize Teaching Fellow for the 2024-25 academic school year. She is one of nine Ph.D. students selected. Congratulations, Frances! gsas.yale.edu/about/news-a...

Yesterday i had a refreshing science break! My @mcdb-yale.bsky.social colleague Stavroula Hatsios spoke about her work on host pathogen interactions. So impressed with her work and creativity! 🤩🧪🦠