Davies Lab Outreach and Publication
Assistant Professor Sarah Davies and the Davies Lab have been busy recently! Dr. Davies was an invited kickoff speaker for the Boston SET (Science Engineering and Technology) in the City. Davies discussed how she became a marine biologist and offered advice to a diverse group of high school students. Additionally, More
Dr. John Majoris Wins 2018 Oboh-Weilke Postdoctoral Travel Award
BU Biology Department Postdoctoral Associate John Majoris has been awarded the inaugural Oboh-Weilke Postdoctoral Travel Award. This award has been started by BU Biology Alumna Dr. Aruoriwo Oboh-Weilke (CAS '93) to support Postdoctoral Associates. Dr. Majoris, a postdoc in the Buston Lab, has been instrumental in the success of the... More
Davies Lab Attends Society for Women in Marine Science Spring Symposium
On March 24th, the Davies Lab attended its first research symposium! A total of 9 lab members made their way to the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography in Narragansett for the Society for Women in Marine Science Spring Symposium. Seven BU Undergraduates participated in this event, and... More
Dr. Rotjan Awarded MIT Media Lab Award
There is a new trend towards “open” everything – open source, open access, and now – “Open Ocean”, a new initiative at the MIT Media Lab. BU Biology Lecturer Dr. Randi Rotjan was part of their recent event, “Here Be Dragons”, where 1 day of talks was followed by 1... More
Professor McCall Receives Two NIH Grants
Department Chair Prof. Kim McCall recently received two NIH grants (totaling over $2.7 million) to support her laboratory’s research on cell death and cell clearance. One of the grants is entitled “The coordination of cell death and corpse clearance” and is a 5-year “Maximizing Investigator Research Award” from the... More
Professor Emili Wins Hariri Institute Research Incubation Award
BU Biology Professor Andrew Emili and collaborators Simon Kasif and Mark Crovella have been awarded a Hariri Institute Research Incubation Award for their proposal entitled “Traveling Back to the Future: Using Network Science to Unravel Evolutionary Conserved RNA Binding Proteins and Complexes associated with Disease”. The goal of the Hariri... More
Professor Primack Work on Borneo Forests Published in Nature Communications
For the past 38 years, Professor Primack, his students and colleagues have been studying long-term research plots in species rich rain forests on the tropical island of Borneo. In a recent article in Nature Communications, Primack and numerous colleagues show that these forests are increasing over time in... More
Professor Katya Ravid Named Fellow and President of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences
Katya Ravid, DSc, founding director of the Boston University Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office and the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, has been named a fellow and new president of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences (MAS). Ravid, a professor of medicine and biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and... More
Professor Hengye Man Promoted to Full Professor
Congratulations to BU Biology Professor Hengye Man on his promotion to Full Professor! Professor Man is one of eight faculty promoted to Full Professor on BU's Charles River Campus this academic year. To read more about Professor Man and his research, please see BU Today's profile of Professor Man.
Gilmore Lab PhD Students Publish a Trio of Papers on the Origins of Immunity and Disease in Marine Invertebrates
https://youtu.be/WHmk919T-sE video courtesy of Carl Facer In research supported by the National Science Foundation, Tom Gilmore’s lab recently published three papers that address the origins of immunity, as well as its possible role in disease in threatened marine invertebrates. In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, More