MCB Graduate Program at Dartmouth

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Bassam El Hafi from the @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social Lab on successfully defending his thesis today! 🥳

Check out this event with MCB alum, Nabila Riaz (Guerinot Lab)!

- Engage with professionals across academia, government, & industry
- Learn from experts shaping science diplomacy

Registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨Thesis Seminar Alert: Evan Winter from the McKenna Lab will be presenting his thesis work tomorrow at 1pm in Spanos Auditorium (Cummings 100)!

🚨 Thesis Seminar Alert: Adam Simard from the Madden Lab @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social will be presenting his research on Monday at 2pm in Kellogg 200!

Student Spotlight: Andre Armero, MD-PhD ’31 What sparked Andre Armero’s path to medicine wasn’t just science; it was humanity. Now an MD-PhD student at Dartmouth, he is blending patient care with research to ask deeper questions and improve out...

“Dartmouth does a great job of expanding your perspective”

Check out this profile of MD-PhD student Andre Armero, who currently is working on his PhD research in the lab of MCB faculty member Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner:
healthsciences.dartmouth.edu/news-events/...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Ziyan Wang from the Dunlap/Loros Lab on successfully defending her thesis! 🥳

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Shannon Ferry from the Huang Lab on successfully defending her thesis! 🥳

The Lacefield Lab won second place in the great pumpkin derby! @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social

🚨 Thesis Seminar Alert - mark your calendars for next week!
- Shannon Ferry from the Huang Lab will be presenting on Monday Oct. 13 at 11am in Auditorium G at DHMC
- Ziyan Wang from the Dunlap Lab will be presenting Tuesday Oct. 14 at 10am in Chilcott

Just a reminder about our faculty search at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Applications due Oct. 15. @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social

Tomorrow! Join Guarini for community breakfasts at both Rubin 6 and Anonymous. Tomorrow is also Biomedical Research Day at DHMC - mark your calendars accordingly 📅🙂

Just a few days left to apply! If you do cool molecular/cell biology things and want to start a lab in a supportive department in New England please check out our ad.

👀 Check out this work from MCB alum Madeline Chrupcala and @moseleylab.bsky.social in @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social!

Join us for our Discovery Science Seminar Series: “Energetic principles that drive cytokinetic ring assembly.” Michael Murrell, PhD

Monday September 29, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Chilcott Auditorium/Vail 120

Are you past grad school but would still love to join MCB?? 🧑‍🎓🧑‍🔬
You still can - 2 depts in MCB are hiring!

Department of Biological Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social: apply.interfolio.com/171625

Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social: apply.interfolio.com/171438

Molecular and Cellular Biology

👀 Applications are open to join us in MCB at Dartmouth! 🧑‍🔬🧬🧫

Learn more:
graduate.dartmouth.edu/admissions/p...

Cell scientist to watch – Lilian Kabeche ABSTRACT. Lilian Kabeche is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University (USA). She completed her doctoral work with Duane Compton at Dartmouth College (New Hamps...

🤩 Check out this great interview with MCB alum Lilian Kabeche. She did her graduate work in @comptonmitosis.bsky.social lab @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social and is now an Asst. Prof. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

"Duane's lab provided a wonderful environment for someone like me, who was new to the field. I was supported by the other grad students and encouraged to ask questions and follow what interested me. And that's when I fell in love with cells."

See who said this and learn more in 🧵:

🎉 Belated congratulations to Dr. Abigail Goen who successfully defended her thesis on Monday! 🥳

🚨 Thesis Seminar Alert! Abby Goen will be presenting her research in the Miller Lab today at 11am in Auditorium H!

Today! Come for an exciting talk from alum Drew Bridges - Stay for the reception with MCB alumni!

As the beautiful New England fall sets in, 25 new MCB students wrap up Orientation, with intros to each of MCB's depts/center and Guarini as well as MCB's annual retreat in the White Mountains. Rotations and classes start next week 🧑‍🔬🤓

😯 Sound enticing? Applications open soon! ✍️

Congratulations to MCB faculty member (and alum!) Pam Rosato @pcrosato1.bsky.social who received a 2025 AAI ASPIRE Award! 🥳

Next Friday, the 3rd Annual Gary Heussler Alumni Lecture will be presented by Drew Bridges and we hope you will join us! The lecture will be followed by a networking event to connect current students and alumni.
Alum, if you did not get an email from us, please DM your email (we won't spam you)!

She is talking about the Knights of the York Cross of Honour. For nearly 60 years, they have been fueling foundational research at the Dartmouth Cancer Center. Learn more about the partnership that has grown over the years and the visit to Turk's lab that the group looks forward to each year.

Guardians of Discovery: Honoring a Treasured Partnership in Cancer Research Funding For nearly 60 years, support from the Knights of the York Cross of Honour has fueled foundational research at Dartmouth Cancer Center.

“Their gifts plant the seeds that allow us to do the innovative high-risk work that will really move the field of immunotherapy forward,” says MCB faculty Mary Jo Turk. Her work focuses on leveraging T cells to keep cancer from coming back: bit.ly/3JQql2Z

CONGRATULATIONS to Brennan McEwan on a successful thesis defense! @mcbdartmouth.bsky.social

New Imaging Technique Could Reveal Hidden Electrical Signals in the Brain | Faculty of Arts and Sciences Biological sciences professor Michael Hoppa received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop groundbreaking neural imaging technology.

Learn more about Mike Hoppa's @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social Keck Foundation Grant to develop groundbreaking neural imaging technology! 🧠

“We think this tool and method are going to break open voltage imaging to the wider scientific community,” says Hoppa.

fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/08...

October 15, 2025
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 pm
Moral Courage in an Uncertain Time:
The Legacy of C. Everett Koop
Hanover Inn, Hanover, NH

geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/koop/

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined).

Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions.

apply.interfolio.com/171625