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Magic microbes

Colleen Hansel's studies of microbial interactions with metals is part of the Microbial Sciences Initiative (Harvard Magazine).

Interdisciplinary science like that supported by the Microbial Sciences Initiative depends heavily on training the next generation of researchers: junior faculty members who use unconventional tools to probe new questions. “The real future of the place,” says Fisher professor of natural history Andrew Knoll, “is in these people.” Here are portraits of three such young scientists at Harvard.

Read the full article in Harvard Magazine