Dr. Rotjan Awarded MIT Media Lab Award
There is a new trend towards “open” everything – open source, open access, and now – “Open Ocean”, a new initiative at the MIT Media Lab. BU Biology Lecturer Dr. Randi Rotjan was part of their recent event, “Here Be Dragons”, where 1 day of talks was followed by 1 day of brainstorming and idea-pitching. […]
Professor McCall Receives Two NIH Grants
Department Chair Prof. Kim McCall recently received two NIH grants (totaling over $2.7 million) to support her laboratory’s research on cell death and cell clearance. One of the grants is entitled “The coordination of cell death and corpse clearance” and is a 5-year “Maximizing Investigator Research Award” from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, […]
Professor Emili Wins Hariri Institute Research Incubation Award
BU Biology Professor Andrew Emili and collaborators Simon Kasif and Mark Crovella have been awarded a Hariri Institute Research Incubation Award for their proposal entitled “Traveling Back to the Future: Using Network Science to Unravel Evolutionary Conserved RNA Binding Proteins and Complexes associated with Disease”. The goal of the Hariri Institute Research Incubation Awards Program […]
Professor Primack Work on Borneo Forests Published in Nature Communications
For the past 38 years, Professor Primack, his students and colleagues have been studying long-term research plots in species rich rain forests on the tropical island of Borneo. In a recent article in Nature Communications, Primack and numerous colleagues show that these forests are increasing over time in tree biomass, and are therefor absorbing some […]
Professor Katya Ravid Named Fellow and President of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences
Katya Ravid, DSc, founding director of the Boston University Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office and the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, has been named a fellow and new president of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences (MAS). Ravid, a professor of medicine and biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and professor of biology at […]
Professor Hengye Man Promoted to Full Professor
Congratulations to BU Biology Professor Hengye Man on his promotion to Full Professor! Professor Man is one of eight faculty promoted to Full Professor on BU’s Charles River Campus this academic year. To read more about Professor Man and his research, please see BU Today’s profile of Professor Man.
Gilmore Lab PhD Students Publish a Trio of Papers on the Origins of Immunity and Disease in Marine Invertebrates
video courtesy of Carl Facer In research supported by the National Science Foundation, Tom Gilmore’s lab recently published three papers that address the origins of immunity, as well as its possible role in disease in threatened marine invertebrates. In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, PhD student Joe Brennan […]
Biology PhD Candidate Jesse Delia to Present Research at International Workshop
Biology PhD candidate Jesse Delia was selected to present his research at a specialized international workshop on the “Interplay Between Parental Care And Sexual Selection” in Fiskebäckskil, Sweden, 26 Feb – 3 Mar, 2018. Jesse’s talk, entitled “Family dynamics influence parent and embryo co-evolution in Neotropical glassfrogs,” describes research conducted in Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador, […]
Professor Sorenson and Alumna Dr. Katie Stryjewski Featured in BU Research
Boston University’s Research has published an article featuring BU Biology’s Professor Sorenson and former Sorenson Lab member Dr. Katie Stryjewski. The article details Sorenson and Stryjewski’s work on estrildid finches of New Guinea and what these birds can teach biologists about evolution. The article can be read on BU Research.
Kaufman Lab Researches Intersection Between Nature and Society
The Kaufman Lab is conducting comparative research in different parts of the world to better understand the system dynamics that occur between natural ecosystems and human society. Their newest study site is Biscayne Bay, front yard to the Miami metropolitan area’s 7 million people, and home to tropical forest, mangrove forest, seagrass meadows and coral […]