Jing-Ke Weng named a 2015 Searle Scholar.
Jing-Ke Weng is one of the fifteen young scientists in the chemical and biological sciences named the 2015 Searle Scholars.
Congrats to Mike, Tim, Olesya and Anastassia for winning a swath of awards at the 2015 NEASPB annual meeting!
Congratulations to Mike for winning the best oral presentation award, Tim and Olesya for winning the best poster presentation award in the graduate student category, and Anastassia for winning the best poster presentation award in the undergraduate student category at 2015 Northeast Section Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists (NEASPB) at Northeastern University on April 11 – 12! Well done!
Postdoctoral fellow Bastien Christ joins the lab. Welcome!
Warm welcome to Bastien Christ, who recently received his Ph.D. degree from Universität Zürich and joined us as a postdoctoral fellow.
Jing-Ke Weng shares experience with Nature about setting up a new lab.
Jing-Ke Weng was recently interviewed by Nature to discuss about time management as a new PI setting up a new lab. Here is the final article “Seize the moment” by Jeffrey Perkel.
Anastassia demonstrates the “Floating Disks” experiment for BioTeach.
Anastassia strikes again! Anastassia made a short lab video for BioTeach geared towards K-12 students, demonstrating photosynthesis. We hope the younger generation is going to fall in love with plant sciences!
Click here for all the materials and instruction you’ll need to replicate this experiments.
Jing-Ke Weng presented a talk at the 2014 New Phytologist next generation scientists symposium.
Jing-Ke Weng presented a talk at the 2014 New Phytologist next generation scientists symposium held at the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK) on 29–30 July 2014.
Interview with Jing-Ke Weng at the symposium:
Fu-Shuang Li won the 2014 Sokol Postdoctoral Award.
Dr. Fu-Shuang Li won the 2014 Margaret and Herman Sokol Postdoctoral Award. Congrats!!
Dr. Michael Torrens-Spence joins the lab.
Dr. Michael Torrens-Spence joins the lab. Welcome!
Valentina Carballo recieves the Whitehead Appreciation Award.
Valentina Carballo recieves the Whitehead Institute Appreciation Award in recognition of an individual outstanding act. Congrats!