Karina Scavo Lord and Leah Williams Receive 2022 Belamarich Award
This year, the Department of Biology is excited to announce that we have selected two winners for the 2022 Belamarich Award. This award is given annually to a recent PhD candidate for their outstanding doctoral dissertation completed in the Department of Biology. Dr. Karina Scavo Lord of the Finnerty Lab was selected for her doctoral […]
Cameron Dixon Receives 2022 I. Alden Macchi Award
Cameron Dixon, MCBB PhD candidate of the McCall Lab, was selected as the winner of the 2022 I. Alden Macchi Award for excellence in the field of regulatory biology. Read more about Cameron’s research below! Hormones orchestrate vital physiological pathways, such as metabolism, development, and reproduction. Beyond their influence on organismal homeostasis, hormones maintain integrity […]
2022 Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarship Winners
The Department of Biology is excited to announce the two recipients of this year’s Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarships: Hannah Aichelman of the Davies Lab and Nahomie Rodriguez-Sastre of the Bradham Lab. Hannah Aichelman uses physiological and molecular tools to understand how both temperate and tropical coral species persist in the face of global change. […]
Heather Hook Receives Charles Terner Award
Heather Hook, Biology PhD candidate of the Siggers Lab, is this year’s recipient of the Charles Terner Award. In the Siggers lab, Heather has been working on the development of a novel, high-throughput technique to profile transcription factor – cofactor complex recruitment to DNA to determine a cell’s key regulators. Heather has applied this technique […]
Nicola Kriefall Receives Belamarich Dissertation Writing Award
Nicola Kriefall of the Davies Lab is the recipient of the 2022 Belamarich Dissertation Writing Award. This award complements the Belamarich Award, and is given to support an outstanding PhD student through the dissertation writing stage. Nicola is interested in understanding how reef environments affect corals and their symbioses with microscopic organisms. Conditions on the […]
Frank Azorsa Receives Long-term GRAF
Biology PhD student Frank Azorsa of the Traniello Lab recently received a Long-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF). This fellowship program supports foreign-based research by doctoral students whose field-based or archival research requires an extended period of residence in another country or countries. . Frank’s research on brain evolution requires collecting in Amazonian Peru and […]
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipient and Honorable Mentions
The awardees and honorable mentions for the 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition were recently posted and several Biology graduate students were recognized. Biology PhD student Emerson Conrad-Rooney of the Templer Lab was awarded with a 3-year graduate research fellowship. Biology PhD student Christine Carroll of the Fiszbein Lab and Biology MS student […]
Cindy Bradford Receives 2022 John S. Perkins Award
Every year, the Boston University Faculty Council honors members of the University community who have served BU with great distinction. We are delighted to announce that Biology staff Cindy Bradford is a recipient of the 2022 John S. Perkins Award for Distinguished Service. Read the BU Today article here. The distinguished service awards were […]
Yuan Tian Receives Brenton R. Lutz Award
Yuan Tian of the Man Lab is the recipient of this year’s Brenton R. Lutz Award. Yuan studies the UBE3A-dependent autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which is one of the most common genetic factors in ASD etiology. Using transgenic mouse models, her research focuses on characterizing the sexually dimorphic behaviors, neuronal activity, gene expression and cellular […]
Lili Vizer Receives 2022 Economakis Award
Lili Vizer of the Buston Lab received the 2022 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. Lili is interested in the evolutionary processes that can help us to link genotype, phenotype, and plasticity […]