GPGG Cooking Class with BMC’s Teaching Kitchen
On June 1st, GPGG meet virtually with Olivia Weinstein, the culinary director of Boston Medical Center’s Teaching Kitchen, to learn how to make chorizo soy tacos! Olivia’s mission is to provide patients with medically and culturally appropriate food from their Preventive Food Pantry, fresh produce from BMC’s Roof Top Farm, and culinary skills and nutrition […]
Congratulations, Russek Student Achievement Winners 2021
Please join us in congratulating GPGG winners Taylor Matte (1st place), Gian Sepulveda (2nd place), and Megan Snyder (3rd place)! These awards celebrate students who have created impactful thesis research within their chosen topic. Taylor Matte gave an in-depth talk to the GMS community on Friday May 7th on MODELING THE TRANSCRIPTOMIC AND EPIGENETIC LANDSCAPE […]
Congratulations, Taylor!
Please join us in congratulating Taylor Matte on passing his Doctoral Qualifying Exam on January 27th. The exam is to evaluate the student’s ability to apply and synthesize the skills and knowledge acquired during graduate study. It is an important benchmark in a PhD student’s progress towards candidacy! Taylor fielded many rigorous questions from his […]
GPGG Trivia Night
GPGG hosted a post-lab day wind down round of trivia for our students Wednesday night. Megan was a wonderful host and game master. She put together six rounds of six questions complete with audio and visual rounds! Of course, some were STEM, medicine, and BUSM themed. It was a tight race through all the random […]
Anti-Racism Interview with Third Year GPGG Student, Taylor!
Check out this 10-minute interview with our very own, Taylor Matte, as he talks about his work with Boston University’s School of Medicine’s Anti-Racism Task Force. Taylor represents all of the PhD students on the panel. Taylor talks about a major project that the task force is working on, in which he is spearheading, instructing […]
GPGG Cookie Bake-Off and Social
Our students competed in a science cookie bake-off at the end of December 2020. Students were provided cookie cutters from the program and instructed to document their baking journey in a lab journal format. Emily Sparago was voted our winner with her beautiful sugar cookies. Congratulations Emily! Enjoy the entries below and see attached document […]
Congratulations, Megan!
Please join us in congratulating Megan Snyder on passing her Doctoral Qualifying Exam on November 25th. The exam is to evaluate the student’s ability to apply and synthesize the skills and knowledge acquired during graduate study. It is an important benchmark in a PhD student’s progress towards candidacy. She fielded many rigorous questions from her […]
Virtual Student Social
Our students Megan, Dylan, David, Gian Paolo, and Stefanie got together on Zoom to play the game Among Us, a strategy game where players have to work together to figure out who is the impostor. We are grateful for technology to allow us to still build memories while being 6 feet (or more) apart!
Pumpkin Carving Student Social
GPGG students David, Taylor, and Megan carved pumpkins on the BUSM lawn to get into the Halloween spirit and to appreciate one of our last warm days. Our students’ skills go beyond the lab, check out those carving designs! We love finding this time to be together!
Recent Student Defense
Stefanie Chan successfully defended her thesis titled “Targeting Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Subpopulations to Elucidate Novel Targeted Therapies” on September 11, 2020. While it was over Zoom, Stefanie did a great job and talked about the community BU has been for her. Congratulations, Stefanie!