Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor), 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
In-Person Presentation
Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks.
Micro Machines and Cell Division
Speaker: 2:00 – Maya Waarts- Graduate Student (Molecular and Cellular Biology), The Needleman Lab
2:00–2:30 PM
20-minute talk followed by 10-minute Q&A session
Every day, there are about 2 trillion cell divisions in your body, facilitated by a tiny but mighty molecular machine: the mitotic spindle. Join Harvard scientist Maya Waarts as she walks through what we know about the spindle and how exactly we know it. Is it soft? Is it squishy? Learn about all the science experiments that help answer this question!
Regular museum admission rates apply.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.
