Professor Markus Meister, Ann P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences; Executive Officer for Neurobiology from Caltech's Division of Biology and Biological Engineering is visiting the Rowland Institute at Harvard as the Visiting Distingushed Scholar, from May 1st through May 5th, 2017. Professor Meister will be giving a presentation "Neural computation for vision", on Wednesday, May 3rd at 11AM in the Rowland Institute Auditorium. R.S.V.P. loving@rowland.harvard.edu

Mackenzie Weygand Mathis will start this September as one of two of this year’s new Rowland Junior Fellows. She plans to study how the brain builds internal models for adaptive motor control by using mice and optical imaging.

https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/education/mco-graduate-open-lab-rowland-institute-harvard

More information on her work can be found here:

http://www.mousemotorlab.org

Direct tracking of amyloid and Tau dynamics in neuroblastoma cells using nanoplasmonic fiber tip probes

RJF Qimin Quan and Research Fellow Feng Liang in collaboration with Zhongcong Xie's MGH research group advance the efforts against Alzheimers with their break-through measurements of proteins within living cells. See MGH press release.

Airway bacteria drive a progressive COPD-like phenotype in mice with polymeric immunoglobulin receptor deficiency

Mechanisms driving persistent airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are incompletely understood. As secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) deficiency in small airways has been reported in COPD patients, we hypothesized that immunobarrier dysfunction resulting from reduced