First Annual Outstanding Learning Assistant Awards
Phoebe Asante, Xing Bing Cai, and George Tarantino Receive the Outstanding Learning Assistant Award This is the first year the Biology Department recognized the wonderful efforts of all of our Learning Assistants (LAs) by presenting “The Outstanding Learning Assistant Award” to the group of LAs who presented a poster that was judged by the Biology […]
Professor Tim Gardner Recruited by Neuralink
BU Biology’s Tim Gardner has been recruited as part of the pioneering team to work on Elon Musk’s new venture, Neuralink. As Neuralink’s website states, “Neuralink is developing ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.” TechCrunch offers a brief overview of Musk’s plan, and Wait But Why gives a very in-depth explanation […]
Tom Gilmore Gives Plenary Lecture at BCI Symposium
Tom Gilmore, Professor and Associate Chair of Biology, gave a plenary lecture at the 19th Annual Biomedical & Comparative Immunology Symposium in Miami, FL, on March 31, 2017. His talk, “A Billion Years of NF-kappaB,” described his lab’s work on a key protein involved in immune diseases from marine invertebrates to humans.
Jesse Delia Research Covered in Journal of Evolutionary Biology and New York Times
Biology PhD candidate Jesse Delia’s first paper from his dissertation was published on Friday as the cover story in the most recent Journal of Evolutionary Biology, and is getting some media attention, including in BU Research, the cover of BU Today, and the New York Times. This paper reports a combination of intensive nocturnal field […]
Professor Wally Fulweiler Featured in BU’s Research
BU’s Research website features Professor Wally Fulweiler and her research on silica’s role in climate change in this week’s edition. Professor Fulweiler notes that silica is an essential component of marsh and ocean ecosystems: “If you’re an oceanographer, you love silica. But if you’re, say, a forest ecologist, you probably don’t think much about silica, […]
Cynthia Bradham Awarded New NSF Grant
Biology Department Professor Cynthia Bradham has been awarded a three year National Science Foundation grant from the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The title of the research abstract is “The Molecular Basis of Skeletal Patterning” and Professor Bradham is the sole P.I. on the grant.
Biology Faculty Awarded Learning Tech Development Grant
BU Biology faculty members Liz Co, Kathryn Spilios and Uwe Beffert were awarded a Learning Technologies Development Grant from BU’s Center for Teaching and Learning to fund two years of implementation of a cloud-based digital exam platform, ExamSoft. This technology, allows for easy creation and secure distribution of digital exams. The software uses military-grade encryption […]
Daniel Segrè Research on Cover of Cell
In a study published on March 9 in the journal Cell, researchers used systems biology approaches to study the emergence of primordial metabolic networks, showing that early biochemistry could have arisen prior to the introduction of phosphate. The featured article can be viewed here for a short time and the full article can be found […]
Daniel Segrè Awarded Hariri Institute Research Award
With BU Physics Professor Kirill Korolev, BU Biology Professor Daniel Segrè has been granted a $20,000 research award from the Hariri Institute. The funded project aims to develop a computational tool that can use microbial genomes to predict microbial interactions and ultimately ecosystem dynamics. Beyond prediction, this computational tool will be used to develop design […]
Jenny Talbot Awarded Patricia McLellan Leavitt Research Funding
BU Biology Professor Jennifer Talbot has been awarded the Patricia McLellan Leavitt Research Fund in recognition of her ongoing and anticipated contributions in the area of microbial ecology and global change biology. This award is designed to support research of one or more non-tenured junior faculty members, or graduate students, in chemistry or biology at […]