Archive for June, 2015
UMMS-WPI Seed Funding
WPI and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) launched the Collaborative Seed Funding Grant Program to nurture new joint research programs. The Albrecht lab (WPI) and Alkema Lab (UMMS) received funding for a project entitled “Accelerated Drug Screening in a Whole-Organism Model for Calcium Channelopathies.” This project will develop methods to directly observe brain […]
Welcome summer REU students
Summer REU students Cortni Dick (MIT) and Allison Marley (ASU) joined the lab Monday! Both will be working with microfluidic devices and neuronal imaging, investigating how neuronal responses to chemical and light stimuli change with chemical perturbation and behavioral states.
