In the Lab is a Columbia News series devoted to the interesting work—scientific, humanities-based, or interdisciplinary—of faculty and students.
Abdus-Saboor, a neurobiologist, traces his path to Columbia and explains his fascination with a rodent that rarely feels pain.
In a new study, PhD students Gabriel Bridges and Shifra Mandel help show that both poles of Jupiter are aglow with high-energy light.
Tessa Montague, a postdoc at the Zuckerman Institute, studies the neural basis of camouflage in cuttlefish.
Bentley Shuster, a postdoc, spoke about life in the lab and her attempts to program soil-dwelling bacteria to shrink tumors in mice.
Columbia postdoc Cascade Tuholske builds maps to understand how humans interact with our environment. He spoke with Columbia News about what can be learned from large-scale data, how he copes with climate dread, and why he thinks the U.S. Constitution should guarantee the right to food.
What's a neutrino and how do you detect one? Columbia physicist and neutrino hunter Georgia Karagiorgi explains.
PhD student Ashley Bransgrove describes his new study on black holes' magnetic fields.