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.

… Read more about RJF Qimin Quan and Reseach Fellow Feng Liang's Nano Letters Publication

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 SIgA contributes to chronic airway inflammation and disease progression. Here we show… Read more about RJF Robert Brucker 's new article in Nature Communications

American Society for Microbiology Editor's Pick: Getting the Hologenome Concept Right: an Eco-Evolutionary Framework for Hosts and Their Microbiomes

Given the complexity of host-microbiota symbioses, scientists and philosophers are asking questions at new biological levels of hierarchical organization—what is a holobiont and hologenome? When should this vocabulary be applied? Are these concepts a null hypothesis for host-microbe systems or limited to a certain spectrum of symbiotic interactions… Read more about RJF Robert Brucker - new article on Perspective | Host-Microbe Biology in mSystems