Alum Amanda Gallinat Finds New England Migratory Birds Seek Native Food
Alum Dr. Amanda Gallinat and Dr. Richard Primack were recently published in the journal Biological Conservation. "Can invasive species replace native species as a resource for birds under climate change? A case study on bird-fruit interactions" finds that New England migratory birds prefer native foods. By examining examining the bird poop from... More
BU URBAN Program Featured in BU Today
Photo from BU today: [Biology's] Tara Miller gathered data on wildlife health this summer as an intern in the Adirondacks. Portrait by Jackie Ricciardi. Photo of the Adirondack mountains by Robert Cicchetti/iStock The BU Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health was featured in BU Today. BU URBAN is an NSF-funded... More
Brian Kennedy Leads Paper Published in Frontiers of Marine Science
Brian Kennedy, PhD student in the Rotjan Lab, led a paper that was recently published in Frontiers of Marine Science. The Unknown and the Unexplored: Insights Into the Pacific Deep-Sea Following NOAA CAPSTONE Expeditions is the culmination of 3 years worth of deep-sea work (187 ROV dives) across the Pacific Ocean. It is... More
Professor Chen Awarded Harvard/MIT Joint Research Grant
Assistant Professor Jerry Chen has been awarded funding from the Harvard/MIT Joint Research Grants Program in Basic Neuroscience in collaboration with Wei-Chung Lee at Harvard Medical School. They will work together to determine the fine-level cortical circuitry for computing abstract sensory representations.
Professor Warkentin Speaks at Brazilian Congress of Herpetology
Professor Karen Warkentin will be giving a plenary talk at the IX Brazilian Congress of Herpetology, in Campinas, Brazil on Thursday, July 25, 2019. It will be live-streamed between 4 and 5 p.m. local (Boston) time here.
Professor Rotjan Research on Microplastics Receives Wide Attention
Research Assistant Professor Randi Rotjan’s research on microplastic ingestion by corals was recently published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. It attracted interest from National Geographic, NPR, and Forbes.
Professor Otchy Awarded R21 Grant
Research Assistant Professor Tim Otchy received a new $394,000 National Institutes of Health R21 grant to develop "Soft, elastic electrodes with nanoclip anchoring for peripheral nerve interfacing." This project seeks to address a recurring challenge limiting the usability of implantable therapeutic devices: the mismatch between the biomechanics of implants and... More
Research Assistant Professor Otchy Featured in Bloomberg Businessweek
Research Assistant Professor Tim Otchy was recently featured in an article on neuroscience, technology development, and animal research in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Siggers Lab PhD Students Published in Nature Communications
Bioinformatics Ph.D. student Jessica Keenan and Biology Ph.D. student Ashley Penvose, both from Associate Professor Trevor Siggers’ group, recently published their work on the regulatory specificity of the Nuclear Receptor transcription factors in Nature Communications. Other contributing authors include Bioinformatics Ph.D. student David Bray and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology graduate... More
Professor Naya Receives WCVI Pilot Grant
Professor Francisco Naya in the Biology Department received a pilot grant from the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute (WCVI) at Boston University School of Medicine for a project entitled “Understanding Cardiomyocyte Metabolism through Analysis of an Imprinted Noncoding RNA locus”. The WCVI’s mission is to advance the field of cardiovascular research and... More