The Boston Regional Brain Bee will be held for the fifth year on Saturday, February 27, at MIT. The Brain Bee is a neuroscience facts competition for high school students. In addition to the competition, there will be a career panel lunch and talk by Prof. Rebecca Saxe from MIT. The organizers are looking for volunteers from Brandeis Neuroscience to help with this outreach project, contact them if interested.
Boston Brain Bee
February 12, 2010 By
Research quickies
February 1, 2010 By
Some of our recent publications (descriptions are mine, not the authors’)
Lau: Finding new insect viruses by sequencing small RNAs (siRNA and piRNA)
Sengupta Lab: Stress early in life causes epigenetic changes in worms
HPC cluster hits milestone
January 31, 2010 By
Our high-performance computing cluster passed the 1000 core mark this month, thanks to computer purchases for the computational biophysics and computational neuroscience groups and infrastructure support from Library and Technology Services. I’m looking forward to another great year working with you all.
Pepose Award Lectures Feb. 8 and 9
January 30, 2010 By
Jay and Maureen Neitz, inaugural winners of the Jay Pepose ’75 Award in Vision Sciences, will deliver lectures on their research in using gene therapy to treat visual disorders on February 8 and 9. Lectures will take place in Gerstanzang 121.
- Jay Neitz. Monday, Feb. 8, 4:00 p.m. Gene Therapy for Red-Green Color Blindness in Adult Primates (reception precedes lecture at 3:45 pm)
- Maureen Neitz. Tuesday, Feb. 9, noon. Retinal Activity Patterns and the Cause and Prevention of Nearsightedness (reception precedes lecture at 11:45 am)
Neuroscience Movie Night
February 7, 2009 By
News for Neuroscience and Biology undergrads from the Neuroscience UDRs:
The first Neuroscience Movie Night will be Thursday, Feb 12th from 6-9pm in Volen 105! We will be showing the movie Memento, a psychological thriller about a man with short-term memory loss. The film will be followed by a discussion led by Professor John Lisman, Neuroscience Program Chair on recent findings on short-term memory. There will be FREE PIZZA as well!
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.
