New Innovation Career Development Professor: Ana Fiszbein
We are excited to announce that Ana Fizbein was recently selected as an Innovation Career Development Professor at BU. This award recognizes junior faculty whose translational research is likely to lead to future licensed technology. Dr. Fiszbein is recognized for her use of system biology and bioinformatics to study the... More
Joe Larkin Receives 2021 MIRA
Dr. Joe Larkin received the 2021 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) to understand how multicellular behaviors emerge in bacterial colonies. His lab investigates how single-cell-level gene regulation of bacterium Bacillus subtilis and the physics of the local environment conspire to create cell-to-cell signaling networks and patterns of cell types that... More
Karen Warkentin gives Plenary Talk with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
In Karen Warkentin’s “Crossing boundaries, disrupting binaries: A queer perspective on studying behavioral diversity,” she discusses her research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Her studies focus on how gender and sexuality influence diversity in biology. She recognizes how the routine assumption of heterosexuality has turned a blind eye to... More
Jennifer Bhatnagar Featured in the Brink
Dr. Jennifer Bhatnagar was 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 of various microbe communities. An excerpt... More
Jeff Marlow Published in PNAS
Assistant Professor of Biology Jeff Marlow has published a new paper titled "Carbonate-hosted microbial communities are prolific and pervasive methane oxidizers at geologically diverse marine methane seep sites" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You can read more about this research here and here.
Daniel Segrè and Melisa Osborne Featured in the Brink
Dr. Daniel Segrè and Dr. Melisa Osborne were recently featured in The Brink for their article "Non-additive microbial community responses to environmental complexity," which was published in nature communications this spring. An excerpt of The Brink article is below: There’s a lot of interest right now in how different microbiomes—like the... More
Sarah Davies Featured in The Brink
Dr. Sarah Davies was recently featured in The Brink's article, "Sexism and Racism in Science: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Exposed Everything." The Brink interviewed Dr. Davies about her new PLOS Biology paper, "Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science." The paper is... More
Sarah Davies Receives NSF Awards
Dr. Sarah Davies recently received two National Science Foundation (NSF) awards: a Biological Oceanography award and a co-funded Biological Oceanography and Biological Sciences award. Dr. Davies is collaborating with Dr. Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser at WHOI for the NSF Biological Oceanography award, which will fund the proposal "Collaborative Research: How do selection, plasticity, and... More
Ana Fiszbein Named BU Hariri Institute for Computer Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor of Biology, Dr. Ana Fiszbein, was recently announced as a junior faculty fellow with the Hariri Institute for Computing. The Junior Faculty Fellows Program "recognizes outstanding early-career computing and data-driven researchers at BU and supports their continued development by connecting them with one another and with the Institute... More
Jenny Bhatnagar and BU Grad Students Zoey Werbin and Kathryn Atherton Publish Paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution
Dr. Jenny Bhatnagar, PhD candidate in Biology Zoey Werbin, and Bioinformatics grad student Kathryn Atherton recently published a paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution titled, "Soil microbiome predictability increases with spatial and taxonomic scale". BU alum, Colin Averill (CAS '08) and Michael Dietze, Professor Earth & Environtment at BU were... More