Assistant Professor Christine Cheng Named BU Data Science Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor Christine Cheng has been named one of BU’s newest Data Science Faculty Fellows! “The Faculty Fellows program aims to assemble a cluster of uniquely talented faculty whose expertise transcends traditional boundaries, leveraging the field’s three methodological disciplines of Computer Science, Statistics, and Electrical & Computer Engineering to enable fundamental advances in the entire […]
Professor Warkentin Gives Plenary Address at ISBE
Professor Karen Warkentin was invited to give the Plenary Address at the International Society for Behavioural Ecology’s biennial conference in August 2018. Professor Warkentin’s talk was titled “Proximate and ultimate causes of plastic hatching timing.”
Assistant Professor Fuxman Bass Receives Outstanding Investigator Award from NIH
Assistant Professor Juan Fuxman Bass has received a 5-year $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health to study the transcriptional regulation of immune genes and explore how this regulation is perturbed by viral agents. “This grant provides the lab with a lot of freedom to explore novel research avenues,” […]
Kate Mansfield Gives Talk at Symbiosis Society Meeting
PhD student Kate Mansfield gave an invited talk at the 9th International Symbiosis Society Congress held in Corvallis, Oregon from July 15-20, 2018. The title of her talk was “Immunity Transcription Factor NF-kB is Modulated by Symbiotic Status in Aiptasia.” Kate is a PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Tom Gilmore, where she carries […]
Professors Beffert and Ho Awarded 5-Year NIH Grant for Alzheimer’s Research
Research Assistant Prof. Uwe Beffert and co-investigator Associate Prof. and Associate Chair of Neurobiology Angela Ho recently received a 5-year NIH grant to support the laboratory’s research on the genetic risk factor apolipoprotein E (apoE) and its role in Alzheimer’s disease. The $2.4 million grant will study the role of apoE and one of its […]
Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Co Wins Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Elizabeth Co has been chosen as one of two 2018 winners of the Metcalf Award in Teaching. The Metcalf Committee noted that praise for Dr. Co’s performance is strong from both students who take her classes and colleagues within the Biology Department. Dr. Co will receive the award at this year’s BU Commencement on […]
Professor Siggers Wins Prestigious Education Award
BU Biology’s Professor Trevor Siggers has been awarded Boston University’s 2018 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education! As explanation for their choice of Professor Siggers for this prestigious award, the Dean’s office notes that Siggers was “chosen by a committee of faculty colleagues from a very strong group of nominees to receive this honor. […]
Davies Lab Outreach and Publication
Assistant Professor Sarah Davies and the Davies Lab have been busy recently! Dr. Davies was an invited kickoff speaker for the Boston SET (Science Engineering and Technology) in the City. Davies discussed how she became a marine biologist and offered advice to a diverse group of high school students. Additionally, Davies’ article describing the differential […]
Dr. John Majoris Wins 2018 Oboh-Weilke Postdoctoral Travel Award
BU Biology Department Postdoctoral Associate John Majoris has been awarded the inaugural Oboh-Weilke Postdoctoral Travel Award. This award has been started by BU Biology Alumna Dr. Aruoriwo Oboh-Weilke (CAS ’93) to support Postdoctoral Associates. Dr. Majoris, a postdoc in the Buston Lab, has been instrumental in the success of the Buston Lab’s research in Belize. […]
Davies Lab Attends Society for Women in Marine Science Spring Symposium
On March 24th, the Davies Lab attended its first research symposium! A total of 9 lab members made their way to the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography in Narragansett for the Society for Women in Marine Science Spring Symposium. Seven BU Undergraduates participated in this event, and the lab presented 6 research […]