News

Tim’s paper on firefly luciferin sulfotransferase is out. Congrats!

We are saying goodbye to UROP student Paul Schwein, who will start graduate school at Harvard University this fall! Congratulations and Best wishes!

Jing-Ke Weng visited Birches School at Lincoln, MA to speak with 2nd – 5th grade students.

Joe Jacobowitz has been selected to receive the prestigious 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Congratulations!

Tomas Pluskal is one of the 23 recipients of the 2016 Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!

Jing-Ke Weng is named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow in Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology.

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 on Youtube now. Click here to view.

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!