Alex Dainis, a Brandeis senior double majoring in Biology and in Film, Television, and Interactive Media, discusses how gender biases affect performance and interest in the sciences in a piece titled XX Scientists at Brandeis on the Life @ Deis 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.
Summer Research
October 21, 2010 By
During the summer of 2010, over 50 undergraduates worked in faculty laboratories at Brandeis doing science research. The undergraduates were sponsored by the NSF MRSEC grant, ARRA funding from NINDS, the Beckman Foundation, and other federal and private sources. The ten-week summer program included weekly research seminars that were multidisciplinary with a wide variety of topics. The program culminated in a poster session at the end of the summer, held in the spacious atrium of the new Shapiro Science building. The poster session provided an excellent opportunity for faculty, students and post-docs to informally discuss their new research findings.
Neuroscience major at NCAA championships
June 21, 2010 By
Read about Grayce Selig ’11, Neuro major and track star, at brandeisjudges.com. In addition to her athletic exploits, Grayce is also involved in undergraduate research on human learning and face perception in the Fiser lab in Psychology.
Biochemistry Senior Research Talks
April 20, 2010 By
It’s also the season for Senior Honors / Masters Thesis talks…
DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Annual Senior Research Talks
2009/2010 Biochemistry Honors and BS/MS Candidates
Friday, April 23, 11:30-1:30pm – G-zang 122
Clarence Friedman – BS/MS
Characterization of 1-d-deoxyxylulose reductoisomerase
Advisor: Dan Oprian
Stefan Isaac – BS/MS
Functional Characterization and in silico Modeling of HlyU
Advisors: Dagmar Ringe/Greg Petsko
Seth Lieblich BS/MS
Bacterial Gene Repressors
Advisor: Dagmar Ringe
Miranda Patton BS/MS
Mutation of the Active Site of IMP Dehydrogenase, to Find a Novel Mutant and Create a Hybrid GMP Reductase
Advisor: Liz Hedstrom
Nat Lazar BS
We are superfamily: bioinformatic and biochemical analyses of protein evolution
Advisor: Douglas Theobald
Kanchana Ravichandran BS
Formation of heterotetramers between the human isozymes of Inosine 5’-Monophosphate Dehydrogenase
Advisor: Liz Hedstrom
Seth Robey BS
Streamlining C1C-0 Purification and Examining the pH Dependence of an Amino Acid Transporter
Advisor: Chris Miller
Kenta Yamamoto BS
The Type-1 Insulin-Like Growth Factor in Cancer and Hematopoiesis
Advisor: Ruibao Ren
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come. Pizza will be provided.
SACNAS Meeting at Brandeis on April 24
March 6, 2010 By
SACNAS (Advancing Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in Science) is a national society with a 37-year history of supporting minority scientists and science students. SACNAS members are dedicated to giving back through mentorship, peer networks, and professional development, and to engaging in science research and leadership of the highest caliber. The organization and its members and affiliates are committed to encouraging minority students and scientists to advance to their utmost capability.
The Brandeis SACNAS student chapter will be hosting the Greater Boston SACNAS Regional Meeting on Saturday, April 24, 2010. All SACNAS members, and those interested in SACNAS and promoting diversity in the sciences are invited to participate in the regional activities.
Saturday, April 24, 9am – 6pm @ Brandeis University:
Greater Boston SACNAS Regional Meeting
Coming Together for a Cause: Diversifying the Scientific Community
This dynamic meeting will feature talks by Brandeis professors from the sciences, outside guests, an alternative careers panel, student speakers, a networking lunch and a poster session. Registration is required to attend. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. We welcome all to attend (undergraduate, graduate and post-doc, and faculty). Please click here for more information and to register.
