News

• 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!