Michael Zulch Receives Corteva Showcase Award
Michael Zulch, a 4th-year MCBB PhD candidate in the Larkin Lab, has received a travel award from Corteva Agriscience. Specializing in the quantitative relationship between plants and bacteria, Michael explores the impact of light and genetic engineering on quantitative relationship between plants and bacteria. This award from Corteva Agriscience, one of the world’s largest […]
Anne-Marie Abban-Demitrus Receives AAUW Fellowship
Biology PhD student, Anne-Marie Abban-Demitrus, recently received a $25,000 International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). This fellowship provides support for women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral study in the United States to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and who intend to return to their home country to […]
Joanna Lee Receives 2023 Economakis Award
Joanna Lee of the Finnerty Lab received the 2023 Alistair Economakis Award in Marine Science. This award provides support for graduate students conducting research in marine science with a focus on research related to ecology, evolution, or behavior. Joanna Lee is performing research on the Mnemiopsis leidyi-Edwardsiella lineata host-parasite system. M. leidyi is a zooplankton […]
John Okechi Published in Conservation Science and Practice
Dr. John Okechi’s paper, The ecological health of Lake Victoria (Kenya) in the face of growing cage aquaculture, was recently published in Conservation Science and Practice. The paper was based on his dissertation work completed while obtaining his PhD in Biology in the Kaufman Lab. Okechi is an experienced and enthusiastic marine biologist; highly passionate […]
Brandon Güell Wins BU’s Inaugural Research Photo Contest
PhD candidate Brandon Güell of the Warkentin Lab is the winner of BU’s inaugural research photo contest in the field research category (entry pictured above). The competition had more than 120 entries in three categories—field research, research happening at BU, and research imaging—with three winners and six runners-up chosen by a panel of faculty and […]
Brandon Güell Among Wildlife Photographer of the Year Winners
PhD candidate Brandon Güell of the Warkentin Lab is among the list of winners for the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his entry “Treefrog Pool Party” (pictured above). You can read more about his winning shot and explore some of the other entries here. Congratulations, Brandon!
Maria Jose Salazar Nicholls Receives 2022 Thomas H. Kunz Award
Maria Jose Salazar Nicholls of the Warkentin Lab is this year’s recipient of the Thomas H. Kunz Award. Her thesis work focuses on the mechanisms enabling adaptive embryo behavior in red-eyed treefrogs, Agalychnis callidryas. Maria completed her BS at Pontifical Catholic University in Ecuador, where she worked in the Developmental Biology lab studying the early […]
Daniel Wuitchik Receives Dana Wright Fellowship
Daniel Wuitchik of the Davies Lab is the 2022 recipient of the Dana Wright Fellowship. Daniel’s research explores the effects of temperature on stress, symbiosis, and patterns of diversity in marine invertebrates. He leverages modern genomic tools, coupled with phenotypic assays of thermal performance to better understand how these invertebrates respond to increasing temperatures. His […]
Sarah Speroff Receives 2022 Denton Award
Sarah Speroff of the Rotjan Lab was selected as the winner of the 2022 Denton Award for their master’s research thesis in biology titled “Stressed out in a Changed World: Investigating the Strength of the Temperate Coral Response to Acute and Chronic Anthropogenic Stress.” This award is given for excellence in scholarship and research accomplishment during a […]
2022 Biology Graduate Teaching Awards
The Biology Graduate Committee is delighted to announce the winners of the Department’s graduate teaching awards: E Schlatter as the winner of the 2021-2022 Outstanding Teaching Fellow in Biology award for teaching excellence over the past year. E served the Department as a teaching fellow in for Genetics (BI 206), for which E has been […]