Caption: A sickle-shaped blood cell in front of an unaffected red blood cell. EM Unit, UCL Medical School, Royal Free Campus, Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0   When Elenoe “Crew” Smith joined Stuart Orkin’s lab at Boston […]

Lacramioara Bintu, photo by Gheorghe Chistol New research on chromatin regulators offers a unifying model of gene regulation and memory. The work, led by former JCC Fellow Lacramioara Bintu, was published in the February 12, 2016 […]

Claus-Dieter Kuhn, Photo by Boran & Parot, Bayreuth Claus-Dieter Kuhn, junior group leader at the University of Bayreuth and former JCC Fellow, was awarded the 2016 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers. The […]

Image caption: (left to right) JCC Fellows Breann Brown, Joseph Cotruvo, Christine Hagan and Manasi Bhate. Photo by Elenoe “Crew” Smith. In early April, the JCC community gathered on the picturesque grounds of The Interlaken […]

Jessica Polka in the lab. Photo by Alina Chan. So much of biological research relies solely on model organisms, and for good reasons. Model organisms — think yeast, fruit flies, and mice — are relatively […]