Joe Jacobowitz receives the 2016 NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Joe Jacobowitz has been selected to receive the prestigious 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Congratulations!
Tomas Pluskal named a 2016 Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.
Tomas Pluskal is one of the 23 recipients of the 2016 Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!
Jing-Ke Weng presents to local high school students.
Jing-Ke Weng presented a talk titled “A personal approach towards natural sciences” to local high school students today at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and shared his experience with the students about a career as a scientist.
Jing-Ke Weng’s TEDx talk is available online.
Jing-Ke Weng’s TEDx talk is available on Youtube now. Click here to view.
Dr. Roland Kersten joins the lab. Welcome!
Dr. Roland Kersten is a Life Sciences Research Foundation fellow, who joins us from San Diego after obtaining his PhD at UCSD working with Dr. Bradley Moore and Dr. Pieter Dorrestein and a short post doc at Salk Institute with Dr. Joseph Noel. Roland is an expert in marine natural products and metabolomics, and an advanced surfer. He has brought his surfboard with him all the way from California! He’ll explore new places to surf at the Atlantic coast. Welcome!
Dr. Tomas Pluskal joins the lab. Welcome!
Dr. Tomas Pluskal joins the lab as a postdoc associate. Tomas is a metabolomics guru, well known as the developer for MZmine 2, a very popular open-source software for mass-spectrometry data processing. Tomas came to us from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, where he did his PhD. Tomas is also a world-renowned martial artist in Karate trained with master Kiyohide Shinjo!
Jing-Ke Weng is scheduled to give a TEDx talk in November.
Jing-Ke Weng is among the speakers for the 2015 TEDx Beacon Street conference, which is scheduled in November. Stay tuned.
Weng lab hosts Whitehead CampBio 2015 for middle school students.
Weng lab hosts three repeated science outreach sessions this summer as part of the Whitehead CampBio Program geared towards middle school students. The theme of this year’s activities is “Biology in Ecology”. The students will collect plants, insects, soil and water samples from Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, and analyze these samples in the lab. See photos of these fun activities here.