DEI-ART Haiku Challenge Winner

DEI ART is a monthly micro de-stressor just for postdocs. It could be an Ask, a Request or a Trivia; participate for a chance to be one of the winners and come back for more every month. ART challenge runs for the entire week before the PDA general meeting. Watch the MIT postdoc slack space…

Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. Lê Nguyên Hoang

Dr. Lê Nguyên Hoang is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on May 21st. His presentation is titled “Online Optimization under Random Time Arrivals”. BIO: Dr. Lê Nguyên Hoang joined MIT as a postdoctoral research associate with Patrick Jaillet in 2015. Before that, he obtained an engineering degree at the École Polytechnique ParisTech in 2010…

Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. Elizabeth Sterner

Dr. Elizabeth Sterner is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on May 21st. Her presentation is titled “Sensing Trace Benzene in Humid Air”. BIO: Dr. Elizabeth S. Sterner is a Postdoctoral Associate in Prof. Timothy M Swager’s group in the chemistry department.  She earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Creighton University, where she worked…

Next Postdocs Sharing Science Seminar & Happy Hour – May 21st

The next round of our casual seminar series, Postdocs Sharing Science, will take place on Thursday, May 21, at 5:00pm in Harvard’s NW243. Even if you can’t make the seminar, please join us at the same location afterward for a Happy Hour and to continue the discussion. Speakers will be announced soon….

Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. Agnis Stibe

            Dr. Agnis Stibe is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on April 15th. His presentation is titled “Socially Influencing Systems for Behavior Change”. BIO: Dr. Stibe is a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Media Lab. His research is focused on persuasive engineering of socially influencing systems (SIS) for behavior change….

Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. Ozan Aygun

            Dr. Ozan Aygun is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on April 15th. His presentation is titled “Spatially-resolved live-cell proteomics to probe human health and disease”. BIO: Dr. Aygun obtained his undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara. During his undergraduate research…

Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. Dan Brunner

Dr. Dan Brunner is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on April 15th. His presentation is titled “The heat flux problem in fusion reactors”. BIO: Dr. Brunner obtained his PhD at MIT in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. His research focused on the development of probes for the boundary plasma of the Plamsa Science…

MIT Postdocs Share Their Science Winners and Pictures

Congratulations to the winners from the Annual MIT Postdocs Share Their Science event! Dr. Gili Bisker, Corona Phase Molecular Recognition of Fibrinogen, 1st place Dr. Victor Hernandez-Gordillo, Development of an ex vivo culture system for intestinal organoids using peptide-functionalized PEG-based hydrogels,  2nd place Dr. Ruo-Qian Wang, Low-pressure and Low-cost Drip Irrigation Systems, 3rd place  …

Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. William Porter

Dr. William Porter is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on on March 12th. His presentation is titled “Sun, stats, and smog: meteorological drivers of air-quality extremes”. ABSTRACT: Relationships between regional weather conditions and pollutant concentrations have been studied extensively over the years, and many general patterns have been established in terms of meteorological impacts…

Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. Fangting Yu

Dr. Fangting Yu is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on on March 12th. Her presentation is titled “De novo protein design toward creating functional metalloenzymes”. BIO: Dr. Fangting Yu received her B.S. in Chemistry in 2009 from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, P. R. China. Her undergraduate research was focused…