NSF GRFP Honorable Mention

The National Science Foundation (NSF) provides graduate research funding to a select number of students each year across many fields of study. This competitive grant application also recognizes exceptional applications that do not receive funding in their Honorable Mentions recognition. For the 2022 cycle, Liz was recognized as an Honorable Mention for this award! Liz […]

Early Career Leadership with the GSA and Liz

Every year the Genetics Society of America (GSA) accepts a cohort of applicants to their Early Career Leadership Program. Members of this program are early career scientists, graduate students and post-docs, who gain professional development training and mentoring. Participants also serve on committees to further develop programming to address the needs and concerns of GSA […]

Caroline’s Crushing It!

Caroline is on a roll this year! After passing her qualifying exam this fall she’s been crushing the research game.  In December, she applied to participate in the Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) at WPI. This is a program that promotes the sharing of graduate research across departments at WPI. After the initial presentation online […]

Congratulations Caroline!

Third year PhD student Caroline Muirhead participated in WPI’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition this year and won! She was the runner up for the competition, presenting her work investigating how the simple decisions worms make can set the ground for understanding human behavior and neurodegeneration. She had 1 slide and 3 minutes to convince […]

Onto the next adventure

Well, it’s official, Doug has left the building. After defending his thesis, Doug worked in lab as a Post Doc for the past few months. Now, he’s moving on to Tufts University to continue Post Doctoral research in a bird song group. While this is certainly not how he would have imaged these last few […]

MQP 2020

While the end to this academic year took an unexpected turn, our MQP students have still been working hard on their reports and presentations. Since the entirety of D term was remote, experiments were cut short but still Annalise Robidoux and Emily Flavin produced fantastic work. They both presented their work at the Biology and […]

Flashback Friday!

Here’s a throw back to June 2019, where Doug summarizes his research representing the Biology and Biotechnology department at WPI’s Arts & Sciences week. Also watch Katherine, who does worm work in our lab, present on her work in the Chemistry & Biochemistry department.

Dr. Douglas K. Reilly!

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Reilly as he defended his thesis “Neuromodulation of Sex-Specific Pheromone-Driven Behaviors ” via Zoom this past Friday. He delivered an excellent talk about just one vein of his research involving ascr#8 and FLP-3. After WPI, he’ll be moving on to work with songbirds at Tufts University. And what thesis […]

High School Volunteer Moves on to Regional Science Fair

High schoolers Ishita Goluguri and Matthew Young from MassAcademy of Math and Science have been working hard in the Srinivasan lab on their science fair projects and recently presented at their school’s fair. Matt uses serotonin and dopamine deficient worms to model depression and to observe the effects of MAOIs on worm behavior. Ishita focuses […]

Smile for the close up: Doug and Jagan in the WPI News

Dr. J and Doug were recently featured in the WPI news for their recent publication, “Photoaffinity probes for nematode pheromone receptor identification.” We’re excited that our collaboration with the Schroeder lab at Cornell University is finally coming to fruition with this work. Check out the full article here!