The Little Engine Shop
"Intracellular transportation is our specialty"
The
Little Engine Shop is a web page about Jeff Gelles' laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry at Brandeis University. We study motor
enzymes, single molecules that perform a function analogous to that of an
automobile engine: they "burn" a chemical fuel and use the
energy released to perform useful mechanical
work. The laboratory is also affiliated with the Brandeis graduate
program in Biophysics and
Structural Biology, the Benjamin &
Mae Volen National Center for Complex Systems and
the W.M. Keck Institute for
Cellular Visualization.
The information on this page is supplementary to that on our "official" web page.
On the "official" web page:
Research interests | Selected recent publications
On this page:
Lab
Mascot | Current lab members (and lab photos)
Former students and postdocs
| Rotation students
Opportunities
for postdoctoral research (and Ph.D. research and undergraduate research...)
Other web pages from the Gelles lab:
Movies of
single-molecule biophysics experiments
Software
| Plasmids | The
new lab
Complete publications
list and Jeff's c.v.
(pdf)
Courses
Jeff has taught recently:
Biochemistry 102a | Biochemistry 224a
Lab mascot
Current lab members (and lab photos)
October, 2000: (l to r) Jean, Simon, Oi Kwan, Kathleen, "Tether", Jeff, Siegfried, Hing-Wen, Johnson, Wei, and Wladimir.
The lab in Summer, 2002:
- Johnson Chung
- Nick Farina
- Larry Friedman
- Jeff Gelles
- Ed Greenberg
- Hung-Wen Li
- Hrishi Poola
- Jean Pyun
- Radhika Subramanian
- Todd Thoresen
- Feng Wang
(plus honorary lab member Dr. Barkev
Bablouzian, F.A.C.C.S.)
(l to r) Han, Oi Kwan, Jean, Kathleen, Johnson, Wei,
and Anita
Taking a break from the 1999 Biophysical
Society Annual Meeting:
(l to r) Kathleen, Johnson, Wei, Anita, Jean, Han, and Oi
Kwan on The Mall in
Former students and postdocs (and where they went when they left Brandeis)
- Elise Berliner (Office of Technology Assessment, U. S. Congress)
- Sagarika Bollini (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc.)
- Lawrence Chu (Stanford Univ.)
- Kathleen Dohoney (NIH)
- Laura Finzi (Univ. of Milan)
- Wei Hua (Yale Univ.)
- Sher Karki (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
- Siegfried Musser (Texas A&M Univ.)
- Yuliya Vugmeyster (MIT)
- Oi Kwan Wong (Stanford Univ.)
- Shirley Ying Xie (Rockefeller Univ.)
- Hong Yin (Harvard Univ.)
- Edgar Young (Columbia Univ.)
Rotation students
In all of the life sciences graduate programs at Brandeis, students spend their first nine months doing short research projects in a number of different laboratories. The students benefit by getting laboratory experience in several different fields; these laboratory rotations also enable them to sample the intellectual atmosphere in several different labs before deciding on what and with whom to do their dissertation research. Work done by rotation students can also significantly accelerate scientific progress in a laboratory. In our lab, rotation projects often entail the first exploration of new scientific questions or novel experimental approaches that are beyond the scope of the established projects underway in the lab. Some past rotation students have obtained (and published) crucial experimental results which have led to major progress in the fields in which we work.
Gelles lab rotation students 1990-present: Sybil Lockhart, Vik Rao, Dennis Thomas, Teresa Lyons, Ed Young, Michael Love, Ezra Peisach, Jeff Gilmour, Oi Kwan Wong, Avital Bar-Shalom, Karin Anderson, Andy Berglund, Jessica Pisano, Vienna Reichert, Haruhiko Ishii, Xiaolin Liu, Wei Dang, Shuyan Chen, Xiaomeng Long, Fiona McMillan, Xiaolin Liu, Carin DePaola, Kathleen O'Leary, Lioudmila Zaslavskaia, Margaret Fleming, Ramesh Subrahmanyam, Sagarika Bollini, Wei Hua, Yu Li, Felicity Kusinitz, Angela Jaramillo, Bryan Lepore, Jean Pyun, Meredith LeMasurier, Eugene Han, Cynthia Beam, Dong Zhang, Chunming Ding, Lu Gan, Tim Fenn, Jessica Vivilecchia, Haipeng Yang, Jeremy McLean, Nivia Medina, Chris Mercagliano, Todd Thoresen, Yi Guo, Radhika Subramanian, Grace Hwang, Mike Walden, Tom Riera, Feng Wang, Lori Boulanger, Aimee Butterworth, Chris Schmidt, and Jamie Moseley.
Opportunities for postdoctoral research (and Ph.D. research and undergraduate research...)
Scientists interested in doing research in the fields of our research interests periodically join the lab as postdoctoral fellows. Individuals interested in such positions are invited to call or write to Jeff Gelles. Written applications should include a brief statement of the applicant's research interests, c.v., publication list, and the names of three scientists familiar with the applicant's work who can be asked to write letters of recommendation. The training of the different laboratory members spans a wide range of scientific disciplines; thus, while postdoctoral fellows must hold doctoral degrees, the degree can be in any scientific or engineering field.
Individuals interested in doing Ph.D. research in the lab should apply to one of the Brandeis life sciences graduate programs such as Biophysics and Structural Biology or Biochemistry.
Undergraduates interested in doing research projects in the laboratory should contact Jeff Gelles.
Contact information
Jeff Gelles
Dept. of Biochemistry, MS 009
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA
E-mail: jeff@brandeis.edu
"Official" home page http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/faculty/gelles.html
Lab home page http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/~gelles
Tel: +1 (781) 736-2377