2015-12-10 Weng lab 2015 annual photo shoot 2015-11-21 Thanksgiving dinner at Jing-Ke’s house 2015-11-15 Jing-Ke Weng delivers a TED talk during the 2015 TEDx Beacon Street Annual Conference 2015-11-04 Jing-Ke Weng shares his experiences with Everett High School students at MassBioEd Career Exploration Day 2015-08-26 Weng Lab hosts 2015 Whitehead CampBio Session 3 Jing-Ke’s three dry ice experiments: 1) gas exapnsion, 2) compression, and 3) dry ice bubble volcano. Paper chromatography and pH test team Paper chromatography and pH test team Paper chromatography and pH test team Paper chromatography and pH test team Strawberry DNA experts Strawberry DNA experts Strawberry DNA experts Chemical ecology and grocery botany team Chemical ecology and grocery botany team 2015-08-12 Weng Lab hosts 2015 Whitehead CampBio Session 2 2015-07-22 Weng Lab hosts 2015 Whitehead CampBio Session 1 Valentina and Fu-Shuang testing out the pH measurement using purple cabbage juice the day before Bena testing out the paper chromatography experiment the day before Bastien explaining the life cycle of a tomato plant A student examing a broccoli flower bud under microscope Students preparing plant samples collected from Drumlin Farm Paper chromatography in action Dandelion, carrot, and beet extracts analyzed by paper chrmatography using four different solvents Valentina leading the pH experiment pH testing for soil samples collected from Drumlin farm Joe and Maria leading the DNA extraction experiments DNA is extracted from strawberries and wild plants collected by the students the day before Students learning to handle the very sticky strawberry DNA 2015-06-09 Weng Lab annual retreat to the White Mountains – Zealand Falls Zealand Falls Birthday surprise for Bastien resting crew Zeacliff Zeacliff Dinner in Zealand Hut Thoreau falls Thoreau falls Thoreau falls Romantic Ellychnia fireflies 2015-05-04 Anastassia won the 2015 Merck Prize from the MIT Department of Biology 2015-04-15 Ellychnia hunting at Belmont Wildlife Sanctuary Tim working with firefly ecologist Sara Lewis Ellychnia sp. Ellychnia sp. Ellychnia sp. Ellychnia sp. 2015-04-11 The 2015 NEASPB meeting Geoff delivers his first talk in a scientific meeting. Tim and Olesya presenting their posters. Mike wins the best oral presentation award in the postdoc category. Anastassia’s first scientific poster presentation! Congratulations to all the presentation award winners! Lab lunch at Lucy Ethiopian Cafe 2015-03-30 Beam trip to APS loading pucks 24-ID-C beamline Inside the hutch Winners and losers for the night shift assignment 2015-03-18 The Gehring lab and Weng lab cohosting a beer hour at Whitehead 2015-02-27 Lunar New Year dinner at Royal East 2015-02-25 Tim’s birthday celebration Tim’s Birthday