3 Minute Thesis and Graduate Research Innovation Exchange
On February 16, 2024, WPI hosted two events for graduate students. At the 3 minute thesis (3MT) competition post-qualifying exam students present their thesis work in under 3 minutes with 1 static slide. At the Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), students presented a poster of their work in their work and the attendees voted for […]
24th International C. elegans Meeting
On June 24-28, 2023, Jagan, Caroline, and Liz traveled to Glasgow, Scotland for the 24th International C. elegans Meeting. This was an exciting meeting for all, bringing together nearly 1700 scientists from around the world who all work with the model organism C. elegans. Caroline and Liz presented alongside 1300 posters presented in cell biology, […]
European Worm Meeting
Caroline Muirhead and Elizabeth DiLoreto attended the European Worm Meeting July 27-30, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. There they each presented a poster to the community of worm scientists. They had a wonderful time connecting with collaborators and making new connections. See everyone at the next conference in 2024 in the Netherlands!
Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day
At MALSI Day, July 21, 2022, Elizabeth DiLoreto represented our group and presented our patented work to deliver neuropeptides to C. elegans by feeding. Neuropeptides are small proteins that move between neurons to shape their activity. We have used this technology in a recent publication, Reilly, et al, 2021 Comms Bio, Figure 6D. So far this work has […]
A CSHL Celebrity in Our Midst!
This past week PhD Candidate Doug Reilly attended the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for the Neural Circuits meeting. Not only did he present a poster on “A neuropeptide controls the sex-specific valence of a mating cue pheromone,” hint hint ascr#8, he was featured as the guest of the week! Check out the full feature here!
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 […]
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 […]