Professor Fuxman Bass Publishes Article in Frontiers in Genetics
Assistant Professor Juan Fuxman Bass has published a review article in Frontiers in Genetics. This article outlines different computational strategies to predict functional cancer driver mutations located in noncoding regions of the genome, and the experimental approaches used to validate and characterize them. You can read the full article here.
Dr. John Majoris receives the Junda Lin Memorial Award
Dr. John Majoris, a former PhD student of Dr. Peter Buston and Dr. Jelle Atema, has received the Junda Lin Memorial Award from the Marine Aquarium Societies of North America, supporting Open Access publication of his Ph.D. work in this month’s Aquaculture. The research was also featured online by Reef to Rainforest Media, publisher’s of […]
Sir Hans Kornberg Celebrates 90th Birthday
Boston University Professor of Biology Sir Hans Kornberg celebrated his 90th birthday with a special seminar given by colleague Dr. Alfred Goldberg. Dr. Goldberg’s seminar, titled “Function of the Proteasome: from protein breakdown to disease therapy,” was followed by a celebration in honor of Dr. Kornberg.
Professor Waxman Wins Bernard B. Brodie Award
Dr. David J. Waxman, professor of cell and molecular biology in the department of biology at Boston University (BU) and professor of medicine, BU School of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2018 Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism. The ASPET Division for Drug Metabolism and Disposition established the Brodie Award to honor the […]
Professors Primack and Templer Publish Article in BU Research
Boston University’s research newsletter has published an article by BU Biology’s Richard Primack and Pam Templer. The article, which focuses on the ecological debate over species diversity, can be read here.
Professor Primack Publishes Work on Biodiversity
A number of recent studies have found that at most sites the diversity of species has been stable or increasing over time, even as many species are faced with global extinction. These surprising results have large implications for conservation biology and the provision of ecosystem services. However, the results have been hotly disputed in the […]
Professor Emeritus David Shepro Dies at 93
Dr. David Sheprow of Woods Hole, Mass., died peacefully on January 5, 2018, age 93. David was a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Biology and Surgery at Boston University. Following the war, David returned to Clark University where he met the love of his life, Marilyn Aronson. The couple married in 1949. After earning […]
Professor Templer Awarded 3-Year NSF Grant
Professor Pam Templer is PI on a newly awarded NSF NRT training grant to Boston University. “Boston UniverCity: Partnering Graduate Students and Cities to Tackle Urban Environmental Challenges” is a new $3 million five-year program that will train students from the interdisciplinary PhD program in Biogeoscience (students from Biology, Earth & Environment, Archaeology) and the […]
Davies Lab Collaborating on Hurricane Harvey Research
The Davies lab is involved in NSF RAPID-funded research in response to Hurricane Harvey. The team’s first two research trips can be seen in this video created by the researchers involved. Samples from these research trips are being processed in the Davies Lab.
Alumna Dr. Kristina Cohen Accepts Postdoc Position at Brown
Dr. Kristina L. Cohen (2017 PhD from the Warkentin lab) will be starting a new position in January 2018 as an HHMI-STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University. She will develop novel course-based undergraduate research opportunities in introductory STEM courses, building on her PhD […]