Professor Templer Elected ESA Fellow
Professor Pam Templer has been elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. According to the ESA, “Fellows are members who have made outstanding contributions to a wide range of fields served by ESA, including, but not restricted to, those that advance or apply ecological knowledge in academics, government, non-profit organizations, and the broader […]
Biology-Engineering Collaboration Advances the Study of Embryo Behavior
Biology professor Karen Warkentin and Engineering professor J. Gregory McDaniel collaborate to study the vibration-cued escape-hatching behavior of treefrog embryos. They designed a new vibration-playback system to answer previously intractable questions about how embryos use information. The first paper using this new tool, published online in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology with PhD student Julie Jung […]
Alum Darcy Gordon Published in PLoS One
Dr. Darcy Gordon’s research on exceptional polymorphism and neuroplasticity in ants published in PLoS One and featured in AAAS EurekAlert, which can be viewed here.
Dr. Co Featured in BU Today’s “Office Hours”
BU Today’s new video series, Office Hours, examines questions students bring to their instructors during their office hours. Their first installment features Senior Lecturer Liz Co, who explains the science of learning and how students can use this to their benefit during their time at BU.
Professor Davison Receives $1.5 Million NIH Grant
Assistant Professor Ian Davison received a new $1.5-million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for “Neural circuits for regulating social behavior in rodents.” This project tests basic principles for how the brain encodes sensory information about other individuals, maps it onto behavioral centers in the limbic system, and probes the learning mechanisms that adjust the […]
Professor Rotjan Awarded BU Supervisor of the Year
Biology Department Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor Randi Rotjan has been awarded Boston University Supervisor of the Year for 2019! Dr. Rotjan is a prolific instructor and researcher, and has clearly taken the time to work intensively with the students in her lab as well. Hayley Goss, an undergraduate in the Rotjan lab, says that […]
Professor Cruz-Martín Receives Biogen Grant
Assistant Professor Alberto Cruz-Martín has received a two-year grant as part of a collaborative effort with Biogen to study the role of specific neuroimmune genes in the wiring of the prefrontal cortex, a brain region implicated in schizophrenia. Studies in humans and mouse models of neurodevelopmental disorders have established the involvement of immune molecules in […]
Professors Primack and Templer Awarded NSF Grant
Professor Richard Primack and Professor Pamela Templer have received an NSF grant entitled “ADVANCE Partnership: From the Classroom to the Field: Intervention Training to Improve Workplace Climate.” The goal of this proposal is to empower academics to transform workplace climate in the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology and animal behavior through an online survey of […]
Professor Andrew Emili Awarded NIH/NIA Grant
Professor of Biology (CAS) and Biochemistry (BUSM) Andrew Emili and Professor of Pharmacology (BUSM) Ben Wolozin have received a joint NIH/National Institute on Aging R01 grant ($3,945,190) entitled “Systems-level functional proteomics analysis assemblies in Alzheimer’s disease and mouse models of tauopathy”. The goal of this proposal is to comprehensively map and identify the subnetworks of […]
Buston Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Theresa Rueger, who will be joining Prof. Pete Buston’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow, has been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission to work on Social Evolution in Coral Reef Fishes. Dr. Rueger obtained her PhD with Geoff Jones at James Cook University and she will be co-advised during her […]