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Staff Spotlight: Chelsea D’Aprile & Ilana Zeltser, Graduate Programs Coordinators, Graduate Admissions and Student Services
Learn about two staff members in the Graduate Admissions and Student Services office!
Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
Dispatches from an Antarctic Co-op: Winter has gone
Jake's second to last post reflects on his time at Palmer Station
Quad Technologies CEO and Northeastern alumnus Sean Kevlahan and professor Shashi Murthy, Quad’s faculty advisor at the lab the company spun out of poses for portraits in the Mugar Life Sciences Building on August 2, 2018. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Biotechnology
How an idea from a lab may change cancer treatments
In recent years, researchers have begun to fight cancer by genetically engineering a patient’s own immune system to target the disease. Quad Technologies, a company that grew out of a Northeastern research lab, has been developing technology to facilitate this process. This summer, Quad Technologies was acquired by a global life sciences company that will help […]
Barnett Institute for Chemical & Biological Analysis, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Rethinking how we sample Extracellular Vesicles – nano-scale delivery trucks between cells – may help us understand diseases like cancer
Almost all cells release Extracellular Vesicles, but our sampling methods aren't perfect. A new grant for Professor Alexander Ivanov aim to improve our sampling techniques, which may help understand EVs' role in cancer and other diseases.
Heather Clark, Director of the new Systems Bioanalysis and Chemical Imaging Institute, works with Sarah Beatty, a second year student, and Nicole Langlois, a first year PhD student, in 140 The Fenway on Oct. 1, 2018. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Everything the human body does is guided by chemistry we don’t fully understand. Yet.
A group of 26 researchers at Northeastern is working on new technology that would allow doctors to zoom in on these minute interactions. The new Systems Bioanalysis and Chemical Imaging Institute will focus on finding ways to image the chemistry of our bodies.
Francis Choi, Senior Lab Technician and Brian Helmuth, Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy, work in the intertidal by the Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts on October 01, 2018. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
Understanding climate change is hard work. These robotic mussels are doing the heavy lifting.
Researcher in the Helmuth lab have developed artificial mussels to take the temperature of a changing climate for them.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
The right chemistry makes hard cider look easy
“This is not what I expected to be doing when I was thinking about jobs in college,” said Angelina Choy, a Northeastern graduate who studied chemistry and now makes cider at Downeast Cider House. “But, I love this. I love what I do.”
Palmer Station, Antarctica.
Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
Five things people get wrong about Antarctica
Antarctic Co-op Jake Grondin on misconceptions about Antarctica including penguins, daylight, and the cold.
Matt Everett and one of the California Two Spot octopuses held in the Marine Biological Laboratory’s outreach tanks. Photo by Tim Briggs
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
Caring for octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish on co-op
Cephalopod co-op Matt Everett didn't know what to expect when he started at the Marine Biological Laboratory, but he's found a place where he can forge new science while working with animals--a lifelong dream.
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli poses for a portrait on Sept. 5, 2018. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology
This neuroscientist wants to change how we diagnose and treat mental illness
Imagine that a doctor could know which treatment would best help a patient with depression, anxiety, or some other mental illness by taking a picture of the person’s brain, not unlike the way people get an X-ray for a broken bone. That, along with early detection and intervention tools, will be in the future of clinical psychiatric practice, said Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, who started this semester as a psychology professor at Northeastern.