Welcome to the
Biology Department

Biology at Boston University is a broadly-based department with faculty interested in biological problems at the molecular, organismal, and population levels. Thus we have a rare strength in addressing questions at all organizational levels of Biology and in ways that combine our knowledge in these areas.

The Department has five graduate program areas: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution; Physiology, Endocrinology and Reproduction; Neurobiology; Cell and Molecular Biology; and Marine Biology. Each program area has unique strengths and suggested curricula. The Department offers both master's and doctoral degrees in Biology that emphasize independent research on the part of the student, and a nonresearch master's degree. Many Biology faculty participate in interdepartmental programs that offer graduate degrees in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Neuroscience, and Bioinformatics.

The undergraduate program leading to the B.A. degree in Biology combines both a breadth of education and training in Biology and the opportunity to concentrate in one of these areas: Cell and Molecular Biology; Physiology, Endocrinology and Reproduction; Marine Biology; Neurobiology; or Ecology, Behavior and Evolution.

Biology News

Biology graduate student Justin Touchon and Assistant Professor Karen Warkentin recently published an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that a Central American treefrog lays both aquatic and terrestrial eggs, and chooses where to lay its eggs based on the threat of egg desiccation. This is the first vertebrate known to lay eggs both in water and on land, and may offer insight into the evolution of reproduction on land. PNAS cover photo by J. Touchon.

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The Biology Department is located at Boston University's Charles River Campus near many of the major historic and cultural attractions of the city.

You can reach the Biology Department at:

Biology Department
Boston University
5 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

(617)353-2432 - phone
(617)353-6340 - fax

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