Laboratory of Microbes and Molecules

Our collaboration with Ryan Moreira and Wilfred van der Donk on the enterococcal cytolysin is now a preprint on bioRxiv! Congrats to Ryan and all authors, especially MacKenzie and Stefan.

Emma defends her Honors thesis in Biology and presents at the URCC Symposium all in the same day. We're proud!

Andreas Kirmaier joins the lab as a PhD student from the BCBP graduate program. Welcome Andreas!

We won a TIER grant to support the class BCHM148a. The grant allowed for the purchase of a sweet new Bambu H2D 3D printer in the MakerLab. Thank you to the Brandeis Center for Teaching and Learning!

Anna Rakowski joins the lab as a research assistant! Anna completed her BA at Macalester where she worked in the Rivera Lab. Welcome Anna!

The lab prints proteins with Ian Roy from the Brandeis MakerLab!

MacKenzie Patterson wins first place in the poster session at the New England Cryo-EM Symposium at UMass Chan. A first for the lab, congrats MacKenzie!

MacKenzie Patterson joins as the lab's first postdoctoral fellow! MacKenzie completed her PhD with Dorothy Kern's lab and is interested in structural biology and evolution. Welcome MacKenzie!

The lab receives a gracious gift! The Pipette Grant gave us 6 pipettes that undergraduates will use as part of their summer "phage hunt". Thank you Hamilton!

The lab is honored to receive funding from the Rita Allen Scholars Program to support our work on the Mechanism and evolution of membrane pore formation in immune signaling. Thank you Rita Allen!

Brandeis press release.

The artist and scientist Nora Pyenson behind the phage wallpaper comes to see her work. Thanks Nora!

Emma Kote wins a Provost's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to support her research over the summer. Congrats Emma!

Former BCBP graduate rotation student Allie Mingione wins 3rd place in the Brandeis Microscopy Image Contest for her entry "Black hole sun". The micrograph was taken using the new Tundra electron microscope at the Brandeis.

Alex takes the lab's first micrograph of a phage (T4) using a sample kindly provided by Siân Owen, using the Morgagni at the Louise Mashal Gabbay Cellular Visualization and Electron Microscopy Center. 

Fashionably late, the lab celebrates Pi day in style thanks to free t-shirts from Sigma.

Amaya, Uyen, and Alex (MacNeil) are featured in a video article for Brandeis Stories about cryo-EM at Brandeis! Check it out!

Congratulations to Amaya and Uyen for  winning summer research fellowships! Amaya will work here as a SMURF scholar and Uyen is flying to Seattle as an HHMI Cech Fellow in the Mitchell lab.

The lab celebrates the holidays with Elio, Kiki and Toto.

Uyen (Teresa) Bui wins a D.O.O.R.S Scholarship from Promega. Congrats Teresa!

The lab goes on its first field trip to sample bacteria from cranberry bogs in Cape Cod with Duane Juang's lab.

Angie Como-Mosconi joins the lab as a research assistant. Angie recently completed her bachelor degree at Middlebury where she worked in Team Tiny. Welcome Angie! 

Students presents their summer research at the Brandeis SciFest XIV! Clockwise from upper left: Emma, Amaya, Julian, and Teresa present top secret discoveries. Congrats guys!

The lab is stoked to receive funding and support from the SPROUT program to support our collaboration on antifungals with the Ragunathan lab. Thank you Brandeis Innovation!

The lab hosts Stefan Huber from H2C2 for an incredible seminar on gas vesicles of floating bacteria. Thank you Stefan you will be missed!

The lab cheers on Amaya at her soccer tournament. Go Amaya, defend the Judges!

Alex and Teresa attend the Dartmouth M2P2 retreat in Lake Morey, Vermont. Elio is nearly "born on ice". 

The lab receives its first grant from Hamilton! We will use the Syringe Grant to purchase materials that allow undergraduate trainees to produce liposomes in lab.

The lab begins in the Department of Biochemistry at Brandeis University. Renovations commence!