Sarah Yunes Receives Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award for Biology, 2017/2018
MCBB Ph.D. candidate, Sarah Yunes, of the Hansen lab was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Fellow of the Year for Biology, academic year 2017/2018. Sarah has served for eight semesters as a teaching fellow in Biology, including for BI 107 and 108 (Biology 1 and 2), two of the largest and broadest introductory courses on campus, and […]
Sasha Vivelo Awarded Mycological Society of America Graduate Fellowship
Ph.D. candidate, Sasha Vivelo, of the Bhatnagar lab was recently awarded a $2,000 Mycological Society of America Graduate Fellowship for her plan of study titled “Determining the Patterns and Drivers of Fungal Decomposer Succession.” This award will help to cover cDNA sample sequencing for transcriptome analysis.
Katelyn Mansfield Receives Charles Terner Award
Ph.D. candidate Katelyn Mansfield of the Gilmore Lab was the recipient of the Terner award for 2018. Kate is studying the symbiosis between cnidarians (i.e., corals and sea anemones) and their intracellular algal symbionts (Symbiodinium). Kate studies the role of host innate immunity during the establishment and maintenance of this ecologically important mutualism and during cnidarian […]
Ashley Comer Receives the Brenton R. Lutz Award
GPN PhD candidate, Ashley Comer, of the Cruz-Martin Lab was the recent recipient of the Brenton R. Lutz Award for 2018. Ashley studies genes that regulate the development and plasticity of neural circuits and how circuit development is perturbed in diseased states. Specifically, she studies the development of the prefrontal cortex in mice by assaying neuronal […]
Ashley Penvose Receives the Marion R. Kramer Award
PhD candidate, Ashley Penvose, of the Siggers Lab was the recent recipient of the Marion R. Kramer Award for 2018. Ashley’s research focuses on understanding how the type II nuclear receptors regulate gene expression, with a focus on DNA sequence specifity and allosteric mechanisms of regulation. The Marion R. Kramer Award provides support for high-achieving […]
Rebecca Branconi Receives the Thomas H. Kunz Award
PhD candidate, Rebecca Branconi, of the Buston Lab was the recent recipient of the Thomas H. Kunz Award for 2018. Rebecca’s research focuses on reassessing a classic question in evolutionary biology – why has sociality evolved? Her research combines descriptive and experimental work to test how different factors, ecological and social constraints specifically, influence intra-group structures using […]
Graduate Students Awarded Warren-Mcleod Fellowships
Congratulations to the 2018 winners of the Warren-McLeod Graduate Fellowships! Recipient of the full year Warren-McLeod Fellowship: Tina Barbasch – Biology PhD candidate in the Buston lab | Negotiations Over Offspring Care: A Test of Alternative Hypothesis Using the Clown Anemonefish Recipients of the summer Warren-McLeod Fellowships: Emily Chua – Earth & Environment PhD student in […]
Rebecca Branconi’s Publication Highlighted by the Editor-in-Chief of Insects Sociaux
Rebecca Branconi, a PhD candidate working with Dr. Pete Buston, has had her first paper from her Masters featured in the Insects Sociaux blog. For her Masters, Rebecca investigated questions of social evolution in insects; For her PhD, she is investigating questions of social evolution in coral reef fishes.
PhD Candidate, Karina Scavo, Receives BU Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF)
Karina Scavo, a PhD candidate working with Dr. Les Kaufman and Dr. John Finnerty, has received a Short-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to support her travel and research in Belize in 2018. With these funds, Karina will be able to further study and understand the role of mangroves as potential reef refuges which is […]
James “JP” Gilbert Wins Belamarich Award
Dr. James “JP” Gilbert of the Man Lab was selected as the winner of the 2017 Belamarich Award for his doctoral dissertation in Biology titled “Investigation of the Human X-Linked Autism Protein KIDLIA in Neuronal Development and Brain Function.” This award is given annually to a recent Ph.D. candidate for their outstanding doctoral dissertation completed […]