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Postdoc Maritere Uriostegui Arcos Received a PostDoc Fellowship from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Annually, the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in Biomedical Sciences provides support to ten post-doctoral Latin American scientists from countries like Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil to receive postdoctoral training in the United States. Maritere Uriostegui, a postdoc student working in the Fiszben lab, has received funding […]

Gabe Calistro’s Research Supported by CGS Social Impact Research Fund

Gabe Calistro is a junior undergraduate student who has been working with Sal Genovese, a CGS lecturer of natural sciences and mathematics, to investigate the potentially devastating effects of microplastics, plastic fragments from water bottles, clothing, and car tires, in the coastal waters of Massachusetts. With the support of the Social Impact Research Fund, Gabe is […]

Sean Mullen—New Professor of Biology

Congratulations to Sean Mullen for his promotion to Professor of Biology. Dr. Mullen is an evolutionary biologist who utilizes genomic tools to investigate the origin and maintenance of the diversity of species. He has garnered significant attention in his field for seminal research on speciation genomics and the adaptive evolution of butterfly wing color, pattern, […]

Kailyn Doiron Receives Fujifilm Fellowship

Congratulations to Kailyn Doiron for receiving the Summer 2021 Fujifilm Fellowship! Kailyn is an alum of the BMB program, graduating with her BA in BMB and MA in Biotechnology in 2017. Since 2019, Fujifilm company has sponsored a fellowship award at Harvard Medical School in which 11 Ph.D. candidates are funded for 2 years worth […]

Fuxman Bass Lab Publishes Review in Cell

Postdoc Xing Liu and Assistant Professor Juan Fuxman Bass have published a review in Cell entitled “Human Virus Transcriptional Regulators” in collaboration with Dr. Matthew Weirauch from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. This work provides a comprehensive catalog of 419 transcriptional regulators encoded by 20 different virus families. These viral transcriptional regulators alter the expression of both […]

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 […]

Professor Primack Recipient of Two NSF Grants

Biology Professor Richard Primack recently received two new National Science Foundation grants. The first grant,  “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 titled, “The impacts […]