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Inside the new world of online dissertation defenses
Read more: Inside the new world of online dissertation defensesEmojis, grandmas logging in, and kudos from strangers: How MIT students have finished their PhDs during the pandemic. Call it another MIT innovation. When PhD student Jesse Tordoff passed her dissertation defense this month, she learned about the outcome in a new way: Her professors sent a thumbs-up emoji on the Zoom screen they…
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Hacking life inside and outside the laboratory
Read more: Hacking life inside and outside the laboratoryManaging her own synthetic biology project helped graduate student Jesse Tordoff overcome imposter syndrome and hit her stride. Jesse Tordoff makes cells form unusual patterns. “I have the coolest research project ever, which has the big, broad goal of controlling the shapes that cells grow into.” Her signature shape? Polka dots. “The idea is that…
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Mary Gehring: Using flowering plants to explore epigentic inheritance
Read more: Mary Gehring: Using flowering plants to explore epigentic inheritanceBiologist’s studies illuminate a control system that influences how traits are passed along to new generations. Genes passed down from generation to generation play a significant role in determining the traits of every organism. In recent decades, scientists have discovered that another layer of control, known as epigenetics, is also critically important in shaping…
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