New year, new students!

As we begin this new academic year, we have some new students to welcome! Joining Chris and Doug are two new graduate students. Coming into the doctoral program is Sabine Hahn fresh off of completing her undergraduate career at Cornell College in Iowa. Joining as a fellow graduate student is Samantha Bryce from Smith College […]

WPI Seaport Visit

Liz and Doug took a trip out to Boston to visit WPI’s new location right in the Seaport district. What a wonderful time to connect with the WPI community and those attending the BIO International Conference right down the road. We can definitely see how this awesome new locale will foster lots of connections! Hope […]

Lab Visit with Philippines Educators

We had some special visitors in lab yesterday. Coordinated by Mia Dubosarsky at WPI’s STEM Education center, our guests from the Philippines represent teachers from STEM high schools and the Department of Education. In lab we were able to show them around and do a brief activity with them, demonstrating the power of C. elegans and the importance […]

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!

Beginning B term with a Bang!

At the start of B term, the Srinivasan Lab is off and running! With the addition of Anita Chavan (pictured center) and Liz DiLoreto (pictured in background) these past months the lab is able to expand it’s expertise into new techniques. Laura Aurilio has successfully relocated to UMass Medical and is thriving in her new […]

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, […]