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Postdoctoral training is challenging for a lot of reasons. Fortunately, the roughly 800 postdoctoral fellows on the Harvard Medical School campus and 4,000 postdocs at HMS-affiliated hospitals have access to resources through the HMS/Harvard School of Dental Medicine Office for Postdoctoral Fellows. As part of that, fellows can get help from the person who literally wrote the book on how postdocs can make the most of this time in their careers: Jim Gould , director for postdoctoral affairs at HMS since 2011. Get more HMS news here In a conversation with Harvard Medicine News , Gould discussed...

At a glance: Study finds people with schizophrenia and older adults have strikingly similar sets of changes in gene activity in two types of brain cells. Findings suggest a shared biological basis for cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and aging and point to new strategies for treating it. The work also implicates a cell type not previously known to affect genetic vulnerability for schizophrenia. Brain tissue samples from people with schizophrenia and from older adults have strikingly similar sets of changes in gene activity in two types of brain cells, suggesting a common biological basis...

At a glance: Revealing the inner workings of drug-resistant bacteria is informing development of much-needed new antibiotics. Experimental drug now in clinical trials takes a new approach to defeating deadly A. baumannii infections. Collaboration between basic research scientists and the pharmaceutical industry drove the advances. Harvard University chemist Daniel Kahne has spent much of his career studying the fundamentals of how bacteria thrive and evade attack. His lab has a special interest in gram-negative bacteria, which have an outer membrane that many antibiotics cannot cross. Get more...