Joe Larkin Receives 2024 Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering Award
Dr. Joe Larkin is part of one of three groups to win a 2024 Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering Award. The Fund, launched in 2017, has awarded $14 million to support projects that have advanced science, built collaborative structures for interdisciplinary research, and expanded funding opportunities. Dr. More
Dr. Robinson Fulweiler Receives the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship
Dr. Robinson Fulweiler recently received the 2024 Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship. The program supports researchers who have a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field, as well as a deep interest, curiosity, and drive to make contributions to a new discipline, in fields of natural sciences, More
New Book on the Natural History of the Belizean Island
Dr. John Finnerty, Dr. Karina Scavo Lord (GRS 2021, Finnerty Lab), Biology PhD student Ninon Martinez of the Finnerty Lab, and Hubert Gillett of Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association, recently announce the availability of their new book — the first of a planned series on the natural history of Calabash Caye, More
Garcia-Marcos Lab work featured in new publication in Cell
The Garcia-Marcos Lab has recently published the development and implementation of a suite of G protein biosensors broadly applicable to detect GPCR activity in scalable assay formats and in physiologically relevant systems like primary cells. By directly measuring endogenous GPCR activity, these biosensors, named ONE-GO, reveal that responses are frequently... More
Dr. Meg Younger Receives 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship
Three Boston University researchers have been named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows, a competitive award given annually to early-career researchers across a range of scientific disciplines. Among one of the three recipients is neurobiologist Dr. Meg Younger, in the Biology Department. Since 1955, 59 faculty from BU have received a Sloan Research Fellowship, More
Peter Buston Featured on the Brink
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Buston for his feature in the Brink article called "The Complex Lives of Clownfish". After studying clownfish for two decades, and has housed hundreds of these fish in his Marine Evolutionary Ecology lab, Buston put together an analysis on clownfishes' unique behaviors. In the beginning, all clownfish are... More
Explore the reasons behind the potential revival of Florida’s Coral Reef with Les Kaufman
Les Kaufman, a faculty member at BU's Biology Department, will deliver a presentation at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami, titled "Breathing New Life into Florida’s Coral Reef" on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. Dr. Kaufman aims to present an optimistic perspective on the future of Florida’s Coral Reef. More
Work on Neuronal Communication Published in Molecular Cell by the Garcia-Marcos Lab
The Garcia-Marcos Lab has recently published a study in Molecular Cell titled, “Fine-tuning GPCR-mediated neuromodulation by biasing signaling through different G protein subunits.” The paper describes how various signaling responses triggered by the same neurotransmitter receptor must be carefully scaled to ensure proper brain function. They found that the protein named... More
Gilmore Lab Featured in Nature’s Communications Biology
The Gilmore Lab published a journal article in Nature’s Communications Biology titled “Starvation decreases immunity and immune regulatory factor NF-kB in the Starlet Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis.” This study was in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Davies and Dr. Trevor Siggers. Ph.D. student Joshua Aguirre Carrión led this investigation with the support of undergraduate Niharika Desai. Nutrition... More
Ranjan Muthukrishnan Receives Director’s Award for Extraordinary Contributions to BU Marine Program
Congratulations Ranjan! Director of the Boston University Marine Program, Pete Buston, has awarded Ranjan the Director’s Award for extraordinary contributions to the BU Marine Program. Ranjan stepped up to fill open slots in the Belize course roster, he adapted calmly to a very dynamic situation when courses were impacted by a hurricane, More