Graduate Students

Graduate training is interdisciplinary, collaborative, and intense, giving our students the research and communication skills they need for a successful career. Our faculty share a deep commitment to education for all students.

Daniel Lew

Daniel Lew uses fungal model systems to ask how cells orient their activities in space, including oriented growth, cell wall remodeling, and organelle...

Professor Anthony Sinskey, biologist, inventor, entrepreneur, and Center for Biomedical Innovation co-founder, dies at 84

Recent Publications

Manipulating time with torpor

MIT biologists discover a new type of control over RNA splicing

Taking the pulse of sex differences in the heart

AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to go

Public Events

  • Tuesday, Apr 1, 2025Colloquium: Isaac Chiu, Harvard
    32-123
  • Tuesday, Apr 8, 2025Colloquium: Geraldine Seydoux, John Hopkins School of Medicine
    32-123
  • Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025Colloquium: Kaelyn Sumigray, Yale
    32-123

Public Events

  • Tuesday, Apr 1, 2025Colloquium: Isaac Chiu, Harvard
    32-123
  • Tuesday, Apr 8, 2025Colloquium: Geraldine Seydoux, John Hopkins School of Medicine
    32-123
  • Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025Colloquium: Kaelyn Sumigray, Yale
    32-123

Alumni Profile: Desmond Edwards, SB ’22

A sum of their parts

A planarian’s guide to growing a new head

Kingdoms collide as bacteria and cells form captivating connections