Former graduate student and current postdoctoral researcher with Judith Eisen and Phil Washbourne generously came to share his many years of experience setting up and breaking down rigs at the CSH Drosophila Neurobiology course to help us set up our glowing new physiology rig. It was a wonderful visit — full of science, mounds of […]
Sam — a former OCG lab undergraduate researcher — successfully defended her thesis. Sam completed her graduate work on somatosensory circuit development with Wes Grueber at Columbia University.
We were amazed and inspired by the experience of seeing Ramón y Cajal’s drawings in person. Could have spent days at The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal on loan to the MIT Museum from the Cajal Institute in Madrid. Together with a food-filled day in Boston, this will be hard to […]
These trees line the walkway next to our buidling. And all the outdoor plants were brought in, so we are surrounded by beautiful trees and plants!
Scott Gratz is presenting his work on the regulation of calcium channel levels during presynaptic homeostasis. Caley Hogan is presenting her discovery of a synaptic homolog of a yeast tRNA methyltransferase.
Matthew Knoeppel has joined the lab as a Research Assistant. Matthew recently graduated from Brown with Honors in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology where he conducted undergraduate research in the laboratory of Jonathan Kurtis.
Kate and collaborator Karla Kaun received a Carney Institute Innovation Award for Understanding contributions of alternative splicing to appetitive memory.
Audrey Medeiros is a first-year Neuroscience graduate student rotating in the lab. Audrey brings extensive experience in electron microscopy from her work with Jennifer Morgan at the Marine Biological Laboratory.
The OCG lab has moved to Brown. We’re thrilled to be part of the Department of Neuroscience and Carney Institute for Brain Science!