Alexandra Chasse Receives 2024 I. Alden Macchi Award
Alexandra Chasse, MCBB PhD candidate of the McCall Lab, was selected as the winner of the 2024 I. Alden Macchi Award for excellence in the field of regulatory biology. This award was established by the late I. Alden Macchi, Professor and former Interim Chairman in the Department of Biology. Dr. Macchi received his PhD in Endocrinology from […]
2023 Master’s Merit Scholarship Recipients
Molly Frank of the Lobel Lab, Noah Singer of the Rotjan and Novak Labs, and Michelle Feivelson are this year’s recipients of the Master’s Merit Scholarship for continuing MS students. Molly completed her undergraduate degree in conservation biology and zoology in the Midwest, where she worked on a fresh water limnology research project for the […]
Pamela Garcia Lopez Recipient of Kilachand Doctoral Fellowship
Pamela Garcia Lopez of the Siggers Lab recently received the Kilachand Doctoral Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded by the Multicellular Design Program (MDP), which combines research in Synthetic Biology, Microbial Engineering, Tissue Engineering, Data Science, and Biophysics to understand the design principles of multicellular systems. The mission of MDP, which is funded through the Rajen […]
So Young Bae Wins Poster Prize from the American Crystallographic Association
So Young Bae, MCBB PhD student in the Tolan Lab, won the Journal of Chemical Crystallography poster prize at the recent international meeting of the American Crystallographic Association in Baltimore Maryland this past July 2023. The American Crystallographic Association is the preeminent society supporting structural science at all levels and disciplines. The Journal of Chemical […]
2023 Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarship Winners
The Department of Biology is excited to announce the three recipients of this year’s Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarships: Hannah Axten of the Ho Lab, Alanna Carey of the Chen Lab, and Yuan Tian of the Man Lab. Hannah studies a member of the forkhead box (FOX) family of transcription factors, FOXR1, and its role […]
E Schlatter Receives 2023 Dana Wright Fellowship
E Schlatter of the Buston Lab is the 2023 recipient of the Dana Wright Fellowship. E uses a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to address questions about the evolution of marine larval dispersal. Their current projects include: using quantitative genetics to ask about the evolutionary potential of dispersal-related traits in the clownfish Amphiprion percula; using a […]
So Young Bae Receives 2023 Denton Award
So Young Bae of the Tolan Lab was selected as the winner of the 2023 Denton Award for her master’s research thesis in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry (MCBB) titled “Mode of Substrate Binding and Specificity for Ketohexokinase across Isozymes Implies an Induced-Fit Mechanism.” This award is given for excellence in scholarship and research […]
2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipients and Honorable Mention
The awardees and honorable mentions for the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition were recently posted and several Biology students were recognized. Biology PhD student Erin Frates of the Marlow Lab, Marine Science BA student Annabel Hughes of the Davies Lab, and Biology PhD student Renata Serio of the Fiszbein Lab were awarded with 3-year graduate […]
Hannah Aichelman Receives 2023 Belamarich Award
Dr. Hannah Aichelman of the Davies Lab was selected as the winner of the 2023 Belamarich Award for her doctoral dissertation in Biology titled “Exploring Coral Symbiosis Under Climate Change Stress Across Spatial and Temporal Scales.” This award is given annually to a recent PhD candidate for their outstanding doctoral dissertation completed in the Department of Biology. The […]
Rhushikesh Phadke Receives Brenton R. Lutz Award
MCBB PhD candidate Rhushikesh Phadke of the Cruz-Martín Lab is the recipient of this year’s Brenton R. Lutz Award. Rhushikesh’s research explores the impact of the immune complement (C) pathway on synaptic plasticity in neurological disorders like schizophrenia (SCZ) and Alzheimer’s disease. By increasing levels of complement component 4 (C4), a risk gene for SCZ, […]