John Okechi One of Ten Pardee Center 2020 Graduate Summer Fellows
John Okechi of the Kaufman Lab was recently named one of ten Pardee Center 2020 Graduate Summer Fellows. During the ten-week fellowship, he will analyze the impacts of cage aquaculture in Lake Victoria on the environment and on food security in surrounding communities. The Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program offers... More
Graduating Senior, Aria Armstrong, Published in Ecosphere
Graduating Biology CMG senior and SURF awardee, Aria Armstrong, in the Celenza lab is co-author on a recently published article in Ecosphere entitled, “Indolic glucosinolate pathway provides resistance to mycorrhizal fungal colonization in a non-host Brassicaceae”. Armstrong and Celenza collaborated with Drs. Mark Anthony and Serita Frey at the University... More
2020 Biology Department Undergraduate Research Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 Biology Department Undergraduate Research Award. The Biology Research and Honors Committee gives this annual award to outstanding seniors of any major who are performing research in Biology Department labs. This year's winners were Rose Zhao (CAS, BMB), Jasmine Clevenger (ENG, BME), and Madison Pacaro (CAS, Biology). More
Biology Graduate Students and Alumni Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The awardees and honorable mentions for the 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition were recently posted and several Biology & MCBB students were recognized. MCBB Ph.D. student Marisol Dothard, Biology Ph.D. student Zoey Werbin in the Bhatnagar lab, and M.S. Biology student Caroline Fleming in the Rotjan lab were all... More
Announcing the Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarship Winners
The Department of Biology is excited to announce the three recipients of this year's Dr. Marion R. Kramer Scholarship: Tina Barbasch of the Buston Lab, Shawna Henry of the Ho Lab, and Diane Lebo of the McCall Lab. Tina's research uses the clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula) as a study system to answer broad... More
Hannah Aichelman Receives Dana Wright Fellowship
Hannah Aichelman of the Davies Lab is this year's recipient of the Dana Wright Fellowship. Hannah's research interests are broadly focused on understanding resilience and responses to rapid climate change of the coral animal and its symbiotic algae. Her current work uses physiological and molecular tools to answer these questions in both... More
Isabella Muratore Receives Brenton R. Lutz Award
Isabella Muratore of the Traniello and Mullen Labs is the recipient of this year's Brenton R. Lutz Award. Isabella's research focuses on the fungus-growing ant Atta cephalotes, which exhibits an extraordinary worker polymorphism of body size-related task specialists, or subcastes. Social role variation that underpins the agricultural habits of this... More
Margaret O’Connor Receives Charles Terner Award
Margaret O'Connor, MCBB PhD candidate of the Man Lab, is this year's recipient of the Charles Terner Award. Margaret is investigating the X-linked protein NEXMIF, which is associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She uses a transgenic mouse model to study the role NEXMIF plays in brain development, specifically neuronal growth... More
Robin Francis Receives Thomas H. Kunz Award
Robin Francis of the Buston Lab is this year's recipient of the Thomas H. Kunz Award. Robin has general interests in marine metapopulation ecology and conservation biology, and specific interests in plasticity of larval dispersal and its effects on population connectivity of reef fishes. The aim of her current research... More
Leah Williams Gives Talk at EMBO | EMBL Symposium
Leah Williams of the Gilmore Lab gave an invited talk at EMBO | EMBL Symposium: The Organism and its Environment, held at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany from March 1-4, 2020. The title of her talk was "Evolution of immune regulation: structure, activity, and biology of transcription factor NF-kappaB in early metazoans." Leah's... More