Laboratory of Microbes and Molecules

Alex won a TIER grant to support the class BCHM148a. This grant is being used in part to purchase and install a sweet new Bambu H2D 3D printer for biochemistry in the MakerLab. Thank you to the Brandeis Center for Teaching and Learning!

The lab celebrates the holidays with Elio, Kiki and Toto. Happy holidays! We'll see you in the new year. 

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. Exciting times ahead!

Angie Como-Mosconi joins the lab as a research assistant. Angie recently completed her bachelor degree at Middlebury College 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" like Bobby Orr! What an awesome community, thanks for having us.

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!

Ethan Mulvey joins the lab! 

Anna Rakowski joins the lab as a research assistant! Anna completed her Bachelor's degree at Macalester College 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! With the Pipette Grant, we purchased 6 pipettes that undergraduates will use as part of their summer "phage hunt" and throughout the academic year. 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! See Brandeis press release.

The incredible artist and scientist Nora Pyenson behind the lab's 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. Congrats Allie!

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.