Based in Brazil, Fernanda Ferreira is a science writer who covers a range of STEM (and occasionally non-STEM) topics, from textile conservation to vaccine stockpiles.
Matt Smith’s life is full of acronyms. “My PI is part of OEB. And my grad program is MCO, which is based in MCB,” Smith recites. This proliferation of acronyms results from two factors: his graduate program, Molecules, Cells and Organism (MCO), which brings together faculty from five different Harvard departments, including Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB); and his own research, which he characterizes as straddling the border between MCB and OEB, both of which are part of HILS, the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences.
