• 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.

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• June 2023

  • Katie Andre is appointed as a fellow in Brandeis's Cross-disciplinary Molecular and Cellular Biology Training Grant.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• March 2023

  • Our collaboration with the Garner Lab on salactin is published on BioRXiv. Congrats to John!

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• January 2023

  • Ryan Gossart joins the Bisson Lab for his third rotation​

  • Dr. Kiwi Dodge joins the lab as a Puppy Investigator

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• October 2022

  • Andrew Berardi joins the Bisson Lab for his second rotation​

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• August 2022

  • ​Katie Andre joins the Bisson Lab for her first rotation

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• July 2022

  • ​Sam Shuster joins the lab as a summer REU student​

  • Tyler Postal joins the lab as a summer MRSEC REU student

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• 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

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• May 2022​

  • Olivia passes her advanced exam and becomes a doctoral candidate​

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• April 2022​

  • Zach passes his advanced exam and becomes a doctoral candidate

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• March 2022​

  • Ashley Dodge joins the Bisson Lab for her fourth rotation

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• January 2022

  • Sayan Biswas and Maira Majano join the lab for rotations

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• 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

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• November 2021

  • Jasmin Kwak joins the lab for her second rotation

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• October 2021

  • Olivia Leland joins the lab as a graduate student

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• August 2021

  • Nate Zaccardi joins the lab for his first rotation​

  • Mahika Gupta joins the lab as the new Lab Manager

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• June 2021 

  • Undergraduates Emily Weis, McKenna Walsh, and Penelope Jacobson join the Bisson Lab

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• May 2021 

  • ​Zachary Curtis joins the lab as a graduate student

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• April 2021 

  • Nathan defends his undergraduate thesis and graduates from Brandeis!

  • Steven Bruckbauer joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow

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• December 2020

  • Publication of "Haloferax volcanii immersed liquid biofilms develop independently of known biofilm machineries and exhibit rapid honeycomb pattern formation" ​

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• 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!

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• August 2020

  • NSF MRSEC awarded to Brandeis (Bisson Lab included) to study emergent bioinspired materials (more info).

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• June 2020 

  • John Mallon joins the Bisson Lab as a postdoctoral fellow.

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• March 2020

  • ​Nathan joins the lab for his Senior thesis.

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• November 2019

  • Theopi joins the Bisson lab! Our undergrads Isha and Susan join the Bisson Lab. 

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• September 2019

  • Bisson Lab website is online!

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• 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!