News
-
October 2024
-
Our paper on clonal multicellularity in haloarchaea is live on BioArxiv. Congrats to Theopi and Olivia for all their hard work.​
-
​
-
September 2024​
-
Our first rotation students of the school year, Abigail King and Neal Jiwnani, join the lab.
-
Our paper on a new family of haloarchaeal bactofilins​ is published on PNAS. Congratulations to Zach Curtis (Bisson), Pedro Escudero (Alva), and John Mallon (Bisson) for leading this collaboration with the Alva and Pohlschröder labs.
-
​
-
August 2024​
-
The lab says goodbye to Theopi Rados as she leaves to start her doctoral studies at Brown University.
-
Micaela Cerletti leaves after completing a successful collaboration!
-
​​
-
July 2024​
-
Solenne Ithurbide visits to learn more about the wonderful world of haloarchaea
-
​
-
May 2024​
-
The lab welcomes three new lab technicians: Shiqi Min, Joshua Kiel, and Ellen Chiang.
-
​
-
March 2024​
-
Tara Vijayakumar joins the lab as our final rotation student of the school year.
-
​
-
February 2024​
-
The lab welcomes Diorge Souza as our newest post doc!
-
Micaela Cerletti returns for another adventure in the Bisson Lab.
-
​
-
January 2024​
-
The Bisson Lab publishes our preprint on a new family of haloarchaeal bactofilins​ on bioRXiv. Congratulations to Zach Curtis (Bisson), Pedro Escudero (Alva), and John Mallon (Bisson) for leading this collaboration with the Alva and Pohlschröder labs.
-
-
November 2023
-
Sarah McCallister joins the Bisson Lab for her second rotation
-
Our collaborative paper on salactin is published in mBio. Congratulations to John and Theopi for their work!​
-
-
October 2023
-
Dr. Thalia Sass graduates from doctoral candidate to doctor. Congratulations, Thalia!
-
-
September 2023
-
David Kotlikoff joins the Bisson Lab for his first rotation​.
-
-
August 2023
-
Lab members Theopi Rados, Katie Andre, and Micaela Cerletti publish A sweet new set of inducible and constitutive promoters in Haloferax volcanii​ in Frontiers in Microbiology.
-
​
-
June 2023
-
Katie Andre is appointed as a fellow in Brandeis's Cross-disciplinary Molecular and Cellular Biology Training Grant.
-
​
-
May 2023
-
McKenna Walsh graduates Brandeis Magna Cum Laude with high departmental honors and a B.S. in Biology.​
-
Zhantao Du graduates with an M.S. in Molecular and Cellular Biology. He'll be joining Ohio State's Pharmacology program in Fall 2023!
-
Katie Andre officially joins the Bisson Lab
-
Ashley Dodge and Jasmin Kwak both pass their qualifying exams and become doctoral candidates.
-
​
-
April 2023
-
Our lab publishes a paper on haloarchaeal promoters on BioRXiv. Congrats to Theopi, Katie, and Micaela!​
-
Our collaboration with the Pohlshroder Lab on cell shape determinants in Haloferax volcanii is published on BioRXiv. Congrats to Theopi and Jasmin!
-
​
-
March 2023
-
Our collaboration with the Garner Lab on salactin is published on BioRXiv. Congrats to John!
-
​
-
January 2023
-
Ryan Gossart joins the Bisson Lab for his third rotation​
-
Dr. Kiwi Dodge joins the lab as a Puppy Investigator
-
​
-
October 2022
-
Andrew Berardi joins the Bisson Lab for his second rotation​
-
​
-
August 2022
-
​Katie Andre joins the Bisson Lab for her first rotation
-
​
-
July 2022
-
​Sam Shuster joins the lab as a summer REU student​
-
Tyler Postal joins the lab as a summer MRSEC REU student
-
​
-
June 2022
-
Ashley Dodge and Jasmin Kwak officially join the lab​ as graduate students
-
Ashley Dodge is appointed as a fellow in Brandeis's Cross-disciplinary Molecular and Cellular Biology Training Grant
-
McKenna Walsh starts her Summer Materials Undergraduate Research Fellowship
-
Micaela Cerletti joins the lab as a visiting research scientist
-
​
-
May 2022​
-
Olivia passes her advanced exam and becomes a doctoral candidate​
-
​
-
April 2022​
-
Zach passes his advanced exam and becomes a doctoral candidate
-
​
-
March 2022​
-
Ashley Dodge joins the Bisson Lab for her fourth rotation
-
​
-
January 2022
-
Sayan Biswas and Maira Majano join the lab for rotations
-
​
-
December 2021
-
Izzy Andrus joins the Bisson Lab as a Lab Technician
-
Astrid Schneider joins the lab as the Digital Animator
-
Zhantao Du joins the Bisson Lab as a MCB MSc Student
-
​
-
November 2021
-
Jasmin Kwak joins the lab for her second rotation
-
​
-
October 2021
-
Olivia Leland joins the lab as a graduate student
-
​
-
August 2021
-
Nate Zaccardi joins the lab for his first rotation​
-
Mahika Gupta joins the lab as the new Lab Manager
-
​​
-
June 2021
-
Undergraduates Emily Weis, McKenna Walsh, and Penelope Jacobson join the Bisson Lab
-
​​
-
May 2021
-
​Zachary Curtis joins the lab as a graduate student
-
​​​
-
April 2021
-
Nathan defends his undergraduate thesis and graduates from Brandeis!
-
Steven Bruckbauer joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow
-
​​
-
December 2020
​​
-
September 2020
-
​Bisson Lab is awarded the Moore-Simons Project on the Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell, together with our collaborators Buzz Baum (MRC-LMB), Anja Spang (NIOZ), Laura Villanueva (NIOZ), and Sergey Ovchinnikov (Harvard). We will study cell-cell interaction among diverse archaeal species. More microscopes to archaeal cell biologists!
-
​
-
August 2020
-
NSF MRSEC awarded to Brandeis (Bisson Lab included) to study emergent bioinspired materials (more info).
-
​
-
June 2020
-
John Mallon joins the Bisson Lab as a postdoctoral fellow.
-
​
-
March 2020
-
​Nathan joins the lab for his Senior thesis.
-
​
-
November 2019
-
Theopi joins the Bisson lab! Our undergrads Isha and Susan join the Bisson Lab.
-
​
-
September 2019
-
Bisson Lab website is online!
-
​
-
May 2019
-
Alex accepted the offer from Brandeis University and will join the Biology Department this fall as Assistant Professor! The Bisson Lab is born!
-