Video Competition

Each year a video competition is held to showcase MRSEC-related research in a short video. Any Brandeis-affiliated undergraduate, graduate student, post-doc, staff or faculty member is eligible to enter and make a video about Brandeis-MRSEC research. 

2022 Video Competition Now Open!

The MRSEC is hosting its Fifth Annual Video Competition! Any Brandeis-affiliated undergraduate, graduate student, post-doc, staff, or faculty person can submit a 90-second video that showcases MRSEC-related research by July 27, 2022, and possibly win a prize! For competition details and to submit your video, please visit this Google Form!
The top videographers will be announced shortly after the deadline. Past prizes have included MacBooks, iPads, and Wacom tablets. Now is your chance to use your best videography skills to share exciting MRSEC-related findings with the world!
For questions, please email Anahita Zare at azare@brandeis.edu 

2021 Winners

1st place winner graduate student Zahra Zarei's "Active Nematic Confined to Annuli"

2021 Winner: Graduate student Zahra Zarei for "Active Nematic Confined to Annuli"

Photo-regulated self-assembly of DNA duplexes - Sungwon Cho

2021 Runner Up: SMURF student Sungwon Cho for "Photo-regulated self-assembly of DNA duplexes"

2019 Winners

2019 Winner: Graduate student Farri Mohajerani for "Cargo Encapsulation by Nanoshells"

2019 Winner: Graduate student Farri Mohajerani for "Cargo Encapsulation by Nanoshells"

2019 Runnerup: Post-doc Dr. Simon Merminod for "Artificial Butterflies: Characterizing Interfacial Binding to Design"

2019 Runner Up: Post-doc Dr. Simon Merminod for "Artificial Butterflies: Characterizing Interfacial Binding to Design"

2019 Runnerup: Graduate student Ali Aghvami for "XSCreen Chip"

2019 Runner Up: Graduate student Ali Aghvami for "XScreen Chip"

2018 Winners

Winner of the 2018 MRSEC Video Competition, Kang Liu for “Inferring Capsid Assembly Kinetics from Experimental Observation”

2018 Winner: Kang Liu for “Inferring Capsid Assembly Kinetics from Experimental Observation”

Maria Eleni Moustaka for "Exploring the Non-Linear Dynamics of Chemical Oscillator Networks"

2018 Runner Up: Maria Eleni Moustaka for "Exploring the Non-Linear Dynamics of Chemical Oscillator Networks"

2018 Runner up Dhruv Dang for "Investigating the Interference of Influenza Viral Fusion by Antibody 'HC19'"

2018 Runner Up: Dhruv Dang for "Investigating the Interference of Influenza Viral Fusion by Antibody 'HC19'"

2018 Runnerup Ashanti Sallee for "Enzyme-Instructed Self-Assembly For Inhibiting Prostate Cancer"

2018 Runner Up: Ashanti Sallee for "Enzyme-Instructed Self-Assembly For Inhibiting Prostate Cancer"

2017 Winners

2017 Winner: Shashank Shekhar for "Microfluidics-assisted high resolution microscopy as a tool to study cytoskeleton dynamics”

2017 Winner: Shashank Shekhar for "Microfluidics-assisted high resolution microscopy as a tool to study cytoskeleton dynamics”

2017 Video Competition Runner Up Dr. Salvatore Alioto for "Actin Cable Reconstitution"

2017 Runner Up: Dr. Salvatore Alioto for "Actin Cable Reconstitution"

2017 Runnerup: Gabriel Bronk for "Computer Simulations of Chromosomes"

2017 Runner Up: Gabriel Bronk for "Computer Simulations of Chromosomes"

2017 Runner Up: Dr. Julian Eskin for "Force Generation through Polymerization"

2017 Runner Up: Dr. Julian Eskin for "Force Generation through Polymerization"