Professor Traniello Receives NSF & GSI Grants
Professor James Traniello and Dr. Mario Muscedere, Senior Lecturer in Biology and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of social complexity on brain size, structure, and metabolism in ants. The project will examine how the energetic cost of the brain scales with […]
Remembering Professor Emeritus Thomas H. Kunz
The Department of Biology is saddened to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Tom Kunz, our beloved “Bat Man.” After working as a high school biology teacher and football coach, Tom completed graduate studies at the University of Kansas. Tom joined the BU faculty in 1971, the same year he completed his PhD, and launched […]
Professors Siggers and Emili Awarded NIH Grant
Biology Professors Trevor Siggers and Andrew Emili have been awarded a 5-year NIH R01 grant to study how changes in people’s DNA, called SNPs, affect Autoimmune Diseases. Their work will focus on elucidating how SNPs change the binding of gene regulatory complexes driving immune gene expression.
Remembering Sir Hans Kornberg
The Department of Biology will be hosting a memorial service for Sir Hans Kornberg on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. All are welcome to attend and RSVPs are kindly requested. The Department of Biology at Boston University mourns the loss of Sir Hans Kornberg, Professor of Biology and a beloved member of the BU Biology Department […]
Professor Primack Receives Two National Science Foundation Grants
Biology Professor Richard Primack recently received two new National Foundation grants. The first for $242,000, “Phenological mismatch between trees and wildflowers mediated by environmental variability and plant invasions”, builds on the observations of Henry David Thoreau, and is a collaborative grant with colleagues from the Carnegie Museum and the University of Pittsburgh. The second grant […]
Remembering Sir Hans Kornberg
The Department of Biology at Boston University mourns the loss of Sir Hans Kornberg, Professor of Biology and a beloved member of the BU Biology Department for 24 years. Born in 1928, Hans Kornberg fled to the UK from Nazi Germany at the age of 11. After finding an interest in chemistry, Dr. Kornberg studied […]
Professor Chen Awarded Harvard/MIT Joint Research Grant
Assistant Professor Jerry Chen has been awarded funding from the Harvard/MIT Joint Research Grants Program in Basic Neuroscience in collaboration with Wei-Chung Lee at Harvard Medical School. They will work together to determine the fine-level cortical circuitry for computing abstract sensory representations.
Professor Warkentin Speaks at Brazilian Congress of Herpetology
Professor Karen Warkentin will be giving a plenary talk at the IX Brazilian Congress of Herpetology, in Campinas, Brazil on Thursday, July 25, 2019. It will be live-streamed between 4 and 5 p.m. local (Boston) time here.
Professor Rotjan Research on Microplastics Receives Wide Attention
Research Assistant Professor Randi Rotjan’s research on microplastic ingestion by corals was recently published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. It attracted interest from National Geographic, NPR, and Forbes.
Professor Otchy Awarded R21 Grant
Research Assistant Professor Tim Otchy received a new $394,000 National Institutes of Health R21 grant to develop “Soft, elastic electrodes with nanoclip anchoring for peripheral nerve interfacing.” This project seeks to address a recurring challenge limiting the usability of implantable therapeutic devices: the mismatch between the biomechanics of implants and those of the implanted tissues—a […]