Srinivasan Lab receives NIH Grant

The Srinivasan Laboratory is happy to announce that NIHR01 funding for over five years has been awarded to the lab! The project is titled “Functional connectome of sex-specific processing of social cues”.  Neuropathologies such as Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia exhibit gender biases suggesting the existence of gender specific neural circuits.  Using the model organism C. elegans, the proposal will shed light on […]

Doug and Chris tie for FIRST at the GRIE!

On April 11th, Chris Chute and Doug Reilly tied for 1st place in the Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) poster competition! Back in February, both Doug and Chris were chosen as finalists out of 170 graduate students to present in this final round. Amazingly enough, their posters were chosen to tie for 1st in the […]

End of A-term 2016!

We have surprisingly and quickly come to the end of A-term for the 2016-2017 academic year. Doug had a successful term completing his mentored teaching experience through designing and running a course focused on nematode isolation and identification.  Chris was largely focused on writing and doing experiments. Dr. Srinivasan had a great term teaching a […]

Off to another academic year!

The Srinivasan Lab would like to officially welcome students back to WPI for another wonderful academic year. The 2016-2017AY will be busy and fruitful as the lab plans for a few publications, gears up to begin hosting an MQP project, prepares a graduate student for a qualification exam, and welcomes new undergraduates for their first […]

Launch Biology 2016

Last week, we wrapped up teaching Launch Biology Summer Camp for 2016. This year we had 20 9th and 10th grade students participate in the camp; 7 male and 13 female students. They were a bright and intelligent group, with a true enthusiasm to learn about biology and biotechnology. We were able to complete several experiments, […]

Gordon Research Conference 2016

This year, Chris was lucky enough to be accepted to present a poster at the Gordon Research Conference hosted at Sunday River in Maine on 7/24/16 though 7/29/16. This conference was titled “The Neurobiology of Cognition” and focused on neural circuits for perception, memory, thought, and consciousness. Chris focused on presenting the social signaling aspect […]

TAGC 2016

For Doug’s summer travels, he will be heading down to Orlando, Florida to present a poster at the 2016 The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) hosted by the Genetics Society of America (GSA). This conference is focused on bringing together 7 different genetics communities to “deepen the understanding of the living world by advancing the field of […]

Welcome Summer Researchers!

Today marks the first day of our summer researchers coming into the laboratory. We would like to welcome, Anish Warty, Chinmaya Kale, Amee Desai, and Pratik Bharadwaj to the Srinivasan Lab! The students will be here for about 2 months this summer aiding our graduate students with experiments, and learning about how to operate and […]

Srinivasan Lab Participates in Annual Touch Tomorrow Event

On June 11th, the lab joined forces with Dr. Dirk Albrecht’s lab to host an exhibit at WPI and NASA’s annual science and technology fair: Touch Tomorrow. The exhibit featured live C. elegans and visitors could observe and learn with them through hands on microscopes. The community was also introduced to the scientific tools that are […]

NELSAMP awarded to Angelica Pollard-Knight

This summer, the Srinivasan lab has received funding for WPI undergraduate Angelica Pollard-Knight to do research in the lab, provided by the Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. This program ” assists universities and colleges in their efforts to significantly increase the numbers of students matriculating into and successfully completing high quality degree programs […]