Lucy Zipf & Richard Primack Published in PLOS ONE
Alum Dr. Lucy Zipf (2020) and Dr. Richard Primack recently published an article in PLOS ONE titled "Citizen scientists and university students monitor noise pollution in cities and protected areas with smartphones." The article describes a method using smart phones to monitor and make maps of noise pollution (example pictured... More
Joe Larkin receives Innovation Career Development Professorship
Associate Professor Joseph Larkin in Biology received this year’s Innovation Career Development Professorship, an award that recognizes junior faculty whose translational research is likely to lead to future licensed technology. Professor Larkin’s interdisciplinary work examines how the physical and chemical environment influences microbes (in particular, bacterial biofilms), and how those microbes, More
Jesse Delia & Karen Warkentin Published in Ecological Monographs
Alum Jesse Delia ('18), Laura Bravo-Valencia, and Prof. Karen Warkentin recently published a paper in Ecological Monographs titled "The evolution of extended parental care in glassfrogs: Do egg-clutch phenotypes mediate coevolution between the sexes?" This research was featured on the journal cover photo pictured above. Glassfrogs are a group of Neotropical... More
Fuxman Bass Lab Publishes Review in Cell
Postdoc Xing Liu and Assistant Professor Juan Fuxman Bass have published a review in Cell entitled “Human Virus Transcriptional Regulators” in collaboration with Dr. Matthew Weirauch from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. This work provides a comprehensive catalog of 419 transcriptional regulators encoded by 20 different virus families. These viral transcriptional regulators... More
Professor Kaufman Talks Pandemic Prevention
Biology Professor Les Kaufman has published a new article about the economics behind ecological planning for pandemics. For more information, see BU Today's article.
Professor Naya Awarded Pfizer Grant
Associate Professor Frank Naya in Biology has been awarded a one-year research grant by Pfizer Inc. to investigate the efficacy of a bispecific antibody (developed by Pfizer) in ameliorating the accelerated muscle degeneration, inflammation, and fibrosis that occur in one form of congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). This collaborative research project... More
Professor Emili Article Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering
In a new article just now out in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Professor Andrew Emili and colleagues report signaling perturbations in fibrotic heart tissue from human patients and transgenic mice suffering from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and in an organ-on-a-chip (OOC) model of cardiovascular disease. Using quantitative phosphoproteomic profiling and integrative analyses, they... More
Research Regarding COVID-19 to Be Published
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Biology Christopher Schmitt has a new paper accepted in PLoS ONE. The paper investigates variation in the ACE2 and TMPRSS2 gene regions among a worldwide sample of 245 captive and wild savanna monkeys (Chlorocebus spp.); the proteins encoded by these gene regions are the primary... More
Posdoc Yarden Cohen Published in Nature
Postdoc Yarden Cohen has a new paper in Nature entitled ‘Hidden neural states underlie canary song syntax’, is the result of research efforts by members of the Gardner-Otchy lab in the Biology department, members of CNS, Neurophotonics, and the Kotton lab at BU medical school. This work used miniaturized microscopes, More
Statement of Unity for Racial Justice
Dear Students, Staff and Faculty of Biology, How can we make society better for everyone? That’s a fundamental question we all face. The recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor have, yet again, thrown the problem of unequal justice into sharp relief. The COVID-19 pandemic and its disproportionate effects... More