BU Research Team Awarded 2021 Campus Sustainability Research Award
A team of researchers, co-advised by Dr. Pam Templer of Biology and Dr. Lucy Hutyra of Earth & Environment, were selected to receive the 2021 Campus Sustainability Research Award. This award is given by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) and "honors higher education institutions... More
Pam Templer featured in the Brink
A team of researchers, including Dr. Pam Templer, plans to break boundaries in an attempt to emphasize the links of illness and climate change. Some of the consequences this group has outlined include “injuries or deaths linked to severe storms, extreme heat, or uncontrollable forest fires; heightened risks for infectious... More
Daniel Segré featured in Nature Protocols
Boston University Professor Daniel Segré authored a study that is now featured in Nature Protocols. The article, “A metabolic modeling platform for the computation of microbial ecosystems in time and space (COMETS)” demonstrates how a genomic-scale modeling system has become a useful tool for modeling cellular and physiology and growth. More
Jeff Marlow Receives DOE Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Marlow for receiving a grant from the DOE for his research on microbial communities. The Marlow Lab's research seeks to understand microbial communities and how they they contribute to Earth's environmental processes, as well as how they support life on Earth. Dr. Marlow and his team... More
Jeff Marlow Receives Funding from Scialog
Assistant Professor Jeffery Marlow is among the 18 early-career researchers to get funding from Scialog: Signature of Life in the Universe, a new Research Corporation for Science Advancement initiative designed to bring us closer to answering basic questions about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. A total of eight teams of... More
Jennifer Bhatnagar and Zoey Werbin featured in the Brink
Dr. Jennifer Bhatnagar and PhD student, Zoey Werbin, were recently featured in The Brink’s article, “Why Scientists Want to Solve an underground Mystery about Where Microbes Live.” The Brink interviewed Dr. Bhatnagar about her research. Dr. Bhatnagar and her colleagues took on the challenge of understanding the soil microbiome, consisting... More
Legacy of Thomas Kunz Featured in University of Chicago Press Journals
During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us have come to the realization that the most meaningful aspects of our careers are the connections we make and the positive impact we have on others. Dr. Thomas H. Kunz, a highly respected biology professor at Boston University, was a commendable example of... More
Bio & BUMP Alum, Krishna Sharma, Publishes on Florida Corals in Miami Herald
Congrats to Krishna Sharma (CAS ‘17) who published a recent story in the Miami Herald on Florida’s reefs. Krishna is an alum of the Biology Department and the Marine Program at BU. In 2014, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease caused one of the worst marine epidemics ever witnessed; in particular, the... More
New Professor At the New NSF Science and Technology Center: Daniel Segrè
We are pleased to announce that Daniel Segrè, Professor of Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering is part of the new science & technology center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Segrè is one of the faculty members of the Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)... More
Ana Fiszbein Receives MLSC Grant
Ana Fiszbein recently received a Massachusetts Life Science Center (MLSC) grant. Her proposal is titled, “Elucidating the role of G9a alternative splicing in breast cancer to develop novel targeted therapies.” From Dr. Fiszbein: “Our goal is to elucidate the roles of G9a alternative splicing in breast cancer, and breast cancer recurrences, More