A5003576461- Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Higher Education and Employability
- Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
- Dental Education, Practice, Research
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Career Development and Diversity
- Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Problem and Project Based Learning
- Muscle Physiology and Disorders
Harvard University
2019-2024
Office of Education
2024
Boston VA Research Institute
2019-2020
Boston University
2019
Tufts University
2012
Western Michigan University
2010
Chitin (β-1,4-linked-N-acetylglucosamine) provides structural integrity to the nematode eggshell and pharyngeal lining. is synthesized in nematodes, but not plants vertebrates, which are often hosts parasitic roundworms; hence, chitin metabolism pathway considered a potential target for selective interventions. Polysaccharide deacetylases (PDAs), including those that convert chitosan, have been previously demonstrated protists, fungi insects. We show genes encoding PDAs distributed...
Incoming doctoral students have gaps in research skills that are not correlated with duration of prior experience. During their first semester training, most improve both self-efficacy and experimental design performance. They attribute changes to many factors, including research, course work, mentoring.
It is critical that future sustainability leaders possess the skills and aptitudes needed to tackle increasingly ‘wicked’ challenges. While much has been done identify this need, inadequate Leadership Training for graduate students in Sustainability (LTS) continues plague even most highly-resourced institutions. Collectively, authors of paper represent small yet growing number LTS programs across United States Canada working close training gap. In paper, we describe integrative approach took...
Abstract We are interested in mechanisms that establish and maintain the highly ordered contractile apparatus of striated muscle. The homologous proteins myosin paramyosin major structural components thick filaments invertebrate animals. In Caenorhabditis elegans , both contain a homologous, small nonhelical domain is known to be phosphorylated paramyosin. this report, we show proposed phosphorylation motif (S_S_A), which present several copies regions paramyosin, conserved among nematodes....
ABSTRACT Graduate professional development is a highly dynamic enterprise that prepares graduate students for personal and career success in variety of fields, including the biosciences. National policies, funding awards, institutional programs have generated myriad tools services bioscience students, new learning resources, events, connections to prospective employers, opportunities strengthen academic portfolios. These interventions are welcome done much enhance training, but they may also...
There is a dearth of literature describing innovative ways to bring active learning activities into graduate life science classrooms. Therefore, we recently described experimental design chalk talks (EDCTs) as an tool, outlined their use formative assessment, and shared resources (including grading rubric) for others implement this activity in classrooms (manuscript press: Heustis et al. , Nature Biotechnology, expected December 2019). also need investigating the gains that such...