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... More
Richard Primack and Alum Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie Receive ESA’s George Mercer Award
Dr. Richard Primack and his former PhD student, Dr. Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie (GRS '17), received this year's Ecological Society of America's George Mercer Award for their paper “Phenological mismatch with trees reduces wildflower carbon budgets.” The Mercer Award recognizes an outstanding, recently-published, ecological research paper by young scientists. Congratulations, Richard and Caitlin!
Remembering Professor Emeritus Thomas H. Kunz
The Department of Biology is saddened to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Tom Kunz, our beloved “Bat Man.” After working as a high school biology teacher and football coach, Tom completed graduate studies at the University of Kansas. Tom joined the BU faculty in 1971, the same year he... More
Professors Siggers and Emili Awarded NIH Grant
Biology Professors Trevor Siggers and Andrew Emili have been awarded a 5-year NIH R01 grant to study how changes in people’s DNA, called SNPs, affect Autoimmune Diseases. Their work will focus on elucidating how SNPs change the binding of gene regulatory complexes driving immune gene expression.
Remembering Sir Hans Kornberg
The Department of Biology will be hosting a memorial service for Sir Hans Kornberg on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. All are welcome to attend and RSVPs are kindly requested. The Department of Biology at Boston University mourns the loss of Sir Hans Kornberg, Professor of Biology and a beloved member of... More
Professor Rotjan Featured in Lab Animal Article
Professor Randi Rotjan was featured prominently in "The quest for an animal model of coral health and disease," an article in the January 27 issue of Lab Animal, a Nature research journal. The article describes how the temperate coral Astrangia poculata is being studied alongside the anemone Aiptasia as an... More
Professors Gilmore and Davies Awarded NSF Grant for Interdisciplinary Research
Professor Tom Gilmore and Assistant Professor Sarah Davies in Biology have received a four-year National Science Foundation research grant to investigate Transcription Factors in Cnidarian Immunity, Symbiosis, and Bleaching. This interdisciplinary research combines molecular pathway analyses with marine ecology and genomics to better understand immunity and stress responses, which are... More
Professor Primack Receives Two National Science Foundation Grants
Biology Professor Richard Primack recently received two new National Foundation grants. The first for $242,000, “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... More
Ashley Comer, Dr. Tushare Jinadasa, & Dr. Alberto Cruz-Martín Published in PLOS Biology
GPN PhD student Ashley Comer and Biology Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Tushare Jinadasa in Alberto Cruz-Martín's Lab recently co-authored an article published in PLOS Biology, "Increased expression of schizophrenia-associated gene C4 leads to hypoconnectivity of prefrontal cortex and reduced social interaction." The article was featured on the January 2020 cover. Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder... More
Remembering Sir Hans Kornberg
The Department of Biology at Boston University mourns the loss of Sir Hans Kornberg, Professor of Biology and a beloved member of the BU Biology Department for 24 years. Born in 1928, Hans Kornberg fled to the UK from Nazi Germany at the age of 11. After finding an interest in... More