Jeff Marlow Published in PNAS
Assistant Professor of Biology Jeff Marlow has published a new paper titled “Carbonate-hosted microbial communities are prolific and pervasive methane oxidizers at geologically diverse marine methane seep sites” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You can read more about this research here and here.
Biology Alum Tony Capobianco Makes Cancer Therapy Finding
Dr. Anthony Capobianco, who got his PhD with Tom Gilmore in Biology, is currently a Professor at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Miami, and is President of the Biotech Company StemSynergy Therapeutics. His research on new therapeutics directed against cancer stem cells, especially for the treatment of esophogeal and certain breast […]
BU Vaccine Clinics
Multiverse: Return to the Reef
The Multiverse Concert Series is back with Assistant Professor Sarah Davies and Postdoctoral Associate Lecturer Dr. Hanny Rivera. Multiverse is an interdisciplinary concert and event series combining music and science in live performance. After a sold-out smash performance of Hidden Worlds at the Charles Hayden Planetarium last fall, and a groundbreaking digital concert of Unfolding […]
Fuxman Bass Lab Publishes Review in Cell
Postdoc Xing Liu and Assistant Professor Juan Fuxman Bass have published a review in Cell entitled “Human Virus Transcriptional Regulators” in collaboration with Dr. Matthew Weirauch from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. This work provides a comprehensive catalog of 419 transcriptional regulators encoded by 20 different virus families. These viral transcriptional regulators alter the expression of both […]
Professor Kaufman Talks Pandemic Prevention
Biology Professor Les Kaufman has published a new article about the economics behind ecological planning for pandemics. For more information, see BU Today’s article.
Professor Naya Awarded Pfizer Grant
Associate Professor Frank Naya in Biology has been awarded a one-year research grant by Pfizer Inc. to investigate the efficacy of a bispecific antibody (developed by Pfizer) in ameliorating the accelerated muscle degeneration, inflammation, and fibrosis that occur in one form of congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). This collaborative research project will focus on testing the […]
Professor Emili Article Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering
In a new article just now out in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Professor Andrew Emili and colleagues report signaling perturbations in fibrotic heart tissue from human patients and transgenic mice suffering from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and in an organ-on-a-chip (OOC) model of cardiovascular disease. Using quantitative phosphoproteomic profiling and integrative analyses, they identified pathway-level changes associated with […]
Research Regarding COVID-19 to Be Published
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology Christopher Schmitt has a new paper accepted in PLoS ONE. The paper investigates variation in the ACE2 and TMPRSS2 gene regions among a worldwide sample of 245 captive and wild savanna monkeys (Chlorocebus spp.); the proteins encoded by these gene regions are the primary keys by which SARS-CoV-2 (the […]
Posdoc Yarden Cohen Published in Nature
Postdoc Yarden Cohen has a new paper in Nature entitled ‘Hidden neural states underlie canary song syntax’, is the result of research efforts by members of the Gardner-Otchy lab in the Biology department, members of CNS, Neurophotonics, and the Kotton lab at BU medical school. This work used miniaturized microscopes, developed in-house, to record neural […]