Brandeis undergraduates can take a peek at what the future might hold for them. Polina Ogas ’07 (BS/MS, Biochem), now in the MD/PhD program at Harvard Med, discusses the details on the Harvard Med Girl blog.
Brandeis alums at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting
November 18, 2010 By
The 40th Society for Neuroscience Meeting was held this week in San Diego. Among the more than 31,000 attendees were numerous present and past members of the Brandeis Neuroscience community. Attending this meeting is scientifically rewarding and accompanied by reunions with undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc alumni, now working around the world.
Marder lab postdocs: from the left, Dr. Mike Nusbaum, Professor, U. Pennsylvania Medical School; Dr. Lingjun Li, Assoc. Professor of Chemistry, U. Wisconsin; Dr. Farzan Nadim, Professor, Rutgers and NJIT; Dr. Eve Marder, Professor, Brandeis ; Dr. Dirk Bucher, Asst. Professor, Whitney Laboratory, U. Florida; Dr. Astrid Prinz, Assoc. Professor, Emory; Dr. Jorge Golowasch, Professor, Rutgers and NJIT; Dr. Patsy Dickinson (sabbatical visitor at Brandeis), Professor, Bowdoin College.
Brandeis undergraduate Ryan Maloney, ’11, presenting his poster to ex-Brandeis postdocs Dr. John Birmingham, Assoc. Professor, Santa Clara U., and Dirk Bucher.
Brandeis undergraduate Toly Rinberg, ’11; Alex Williams, Bowdoin College; and Dr. Michael Oshinsky ’92, Professor, Thomas Jefferson Medical School.
Dr. Mike Nusbaum and Dr. Jim Weimann (Brandeis PhD, ’92) remembering old times.
Also sighted were: Dr. Andy Christie, PhD ’94 now faculty, Mount Desert Island Marine Labs; Dr. Cyrus Billimoria, PhD, ’05, now Research Faculty Boston U.; Dr. Stefan Pulver, Ph.D. ’09 now postdoc Cambridge U. (UK), Dr. Aryn Gittis (class of ’01), PhD UCSD, now postdoc at Stanford, Dr. Tepring Piquado, Ph.D. ’10, now at UC Irvine, Dr. Raj Stewart, Ph.D ’08, now at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Mark Miller, PhD ’08, now postdoc at UCSF. Other former Brandeis postdocs included Dr. Alfredo Fontanini from the Katz lab and Dr. Arianna Maffei from the Turrgiano lab, now both Asst. Professors at Stony Brook.
Fall 2010 Brandeis Magazine on Campus
November 10, 2010 By
The Fall 2010 issue of Brandeis Magazine is on campus and will soon be mailed to alumni. This issue launched a new design, a companion website and a new name.
Browse inside and you’ll find in-depth coverage of Brandeis scientists and their research, as well as stories about undergraduates engaged in research in leading labs, profiles of alums in science and other science-related news. The cover story, written by science writer Deborah Halber ’80, profiles Liane Carter ’76 as she reflects on life with her autistic son, Mickey, now a 17-year-old facing an uncertain adulthood. Weaving into the story the research of neuroscientists Don Katz, Susan Birren and Sacha Nelson, along with Heller experts Marji Erickson Warfield and Susan Parish, Halber offers a vivid glimpse into this excruciatingly complex spectrum of disorders. And don’t forget to read the sidebar “My Life on the Spectrum” by Jake Crosby ’11.
A work in progress, the new magazine aims to include more coverage of scientists and their scholarship, arts and culture, along with features about alumni, faculty and students whose lives, jobs or personalities make for strong, compelling stories of interest to Brandeisians. The magazine includes two new columns. “Turning Points” is where alumni authors share their pivotal experiences and “aha” moments, while “Perspective” is reserved for faculty who want to pen an opinion piece that draws on their research interests.
So, check out the magazine and the website, which also allows you to share articles and find additional books by faculty and alumni. Please send comments and story ideas to gardner@brandeis.edu.
Lots of seminars coming
February 24, 2010 By
Whole bunch of seminars and award lectures coming up in the next week. Steven Reppert from U. Mass. talks today at 4 about monarch butterfly migration and its relationship to the circadian clock. On Monday at noon, Giovanni Bosco (PhD in Mol Cell Biol, Brandeis, 1998) will talk about condensins and global chromosome structure.
On Tuesday, we have the 39th Annual Rosenstiel Award lectures at 4. Jules Hoffman and Ruslan Medzhitov will get award “for their elucidation of the mechanisms of innate immunity”.
Next Wednesday we have the Heart Research Series lecture. Monty Krieger, Whitehead Professor of Molecular Genetics at MIT, will talk about cholesterol, genetics, and heart disease. Finally, next Thursday will have Josh Tenenbaum from MIT speaking in the Psychology Colloquium about “How to Grow a Mind”.
Details (time, room number) about upcoming seminars are always available in the Seminars widget in the left-hand column on this blog.
Sense from Chaos in Neural Networks
January 24, 2009 By
Distinguished physicist and neuroscientist, former Brandeis professor and alumnus Larry Abbott (Ph.D., Physics, 1977) will return to campus on Monday to speak in the IGERT Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series. Larry will talk about new work on “Sense and Chaos in Neural Networks”. The talk will be in Gerstenzang 121 at 4 pm on Monday, Jan 26. Refreshments are available at 3:45 PM.
Microscopy (2): studying molecular motors
January 4, 2009 By
An article in Cell by recent Molecular and Cell Biology Ph.D. graduate Susan Tran and coworkers demonstrates the power of single particle microscopy in combination with Drosophila genetics in studying molecular motors. Studying lipid droplet movement in embryos, they show that multiple motors are attached to droplets in vivo. Surprisingly, having multiple motors per droplet in vivo doesn’t result in higher velocities or distances traveled.
