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 […]

Congratulations Chris!

Chris has completed all of the requirements needed for earning his Certificate in College teaching! Congratulations! This program is run by the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (HECCMA) and is focused on properly training graduate students and faculty on how to teach effectively at a higher level. This certificate is earned after taking 6-credits worth […]

Provost’s MQP Award 2016

The lab is so excited to announce that the 2016 MQP team comprised of Veronica, Veroniki, and Nicky has been awarded the 2016 Provost’s MQP award for outstanding research in the Biology and Biotechnology department. This award is given to ONE team in the department who received the highest scores and recommendations from judges at […]

Dr. Srinivasan earns Sigma Xi award!

On may 4th, 2016, Dr. Srinivasan received an award for outstanding research as a junior faculty member of Sigma Xi WPI Chapter. The award was presented by Professor Germano Innacchione who presides as the secretary for the chapter. Sigma Xi is a scientific research honor society comprised of engineers and scientists that have a history […]

Launch Biology 2015!

This summer, Dr. Srinivasan was asked to teach the week long summer camp program called Launch Biology. Doug and Laura were brought onto the team in order to help as TAs for the program. This summer camp is hosted by WPI for one week every summer in August and welcomes 20 upcoming 9th and 10th […]

MassBioEd May 2013

This past May, the Srinivasan Lab participated in the annual MassBioEd futures day where high school-aged students from local area schools come to the LSBC at WPI and get to experience life science related college majors and careers. The Srinivasan Lab did a mini-experiment with the students where they got to explore how C. elegans […]