Cymone Reed Publishes Biology Letters Paper
A big congratulations to Cymone Reed (CAS ’18), the lead author along with Ph.D. student Rebecca Branconi, Postdoctoral Fellow John Majoris, Research Associate Cara Johnson, and Associate Professor Pete Buston, who published the paper “Competitive growth in a social fish” in the Royal Society’s Biology Letters. The paper demonstrates that clownfish are able to increase their growth rate in response... More
Davies lab members attend SICB Conference in FL
Dr. Sarah Davies and lab members attended the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Conference in Tampa, Florida in early January. Students received financial support to attend the conference from the Biology Department Travel Awards and UROP. They had seven podium presentations and one poster presentation. In addition, Dr. Davies and her... More
Diane Lebo Elected President of BU Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
Diane Lebo, PhD candidate in the McCall Lab, has been elected as the 2019 Graduate Student Organization (GSO) President. Diane has been the Biology GSO Representative since September 2017 and has been the GSO Treasurer since December 2017. Recent successful events that Diane helped run with the Executive Board members... More
Introducing the Loren E. Wold Research Awards
The Loren E. Wold Research Awards have been established by Biology alumnus Dr. Loren E. Wold (CAS ’97), a distinguished research scientist and Professor at Ohio State University. Dr. Wold is a strong advocate of undergraduate research and mentoring. Each award supports summer research projects in the amount of $4,800 for salary and... More
Katey Lesneski Receives Best Poster Award at Student Conference on Conservation Science – New York
Katey Lesneski, Ph.D. candidate co-advised by Dr. John Finnerty and Dr. Les Kaufman, was recently awarded the Best Poster Award for "Best Use of Quantitative Methods in Conservation Research" at the 2018 Student Conference on Conservation Science in NYC. Her poster titled "Identifying resilient individuals of an endangered coral for reef... More
Nahomie Rodriguez-Sastre Receives Outstanding Poster Award at Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin (DBSU)
Nahomie Rodriguez-Sastre, Ph.D. student in the Bradham Lab, recently received the "Outstanding Poster Award" at the Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin (DBSU) in Woods Hole, MA for her poster titled: "Ethanol treatment perturbs skeletal patterning during sea urchin development." Nahomie's research uses the sea urchin to identify the pathway that EtOH... More
Leah Williams Gives Invited Talk at Cnidofest
Ph.D. candidate Leah Williams from Dr. Tom Gilmore’s lab gave an invited talk at Cnidofest: The Cnidarian Model Systems Meeting, held at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience in St. Augustine, Florida from September 6-9, 2018. The title of her talk was “Cnidarian Toll-like Receptor Signaling.” Leah’s research explores the... More
Shawna Henry Receives Best Poster Award at Gordon Research Conference
Shawna Henry, Ph.D. candidate in the Ho Lab, recently received the "Best Poster Award" at the Gordon Research Conference: Neurobiology of Brain Disorders in Barcelona, Spain for her poster titled: "Conformational Switch of Mint1 Controls APP Binding and Processing." Shawna's research examined how perturbing the interaction between Mint1, a neuronal adaptor protein, More
Joana Barbosa Teixeira and Rose Zhao Honored with Marion Kramer Award
Joana Barbosa Teixeira and Rose Zhao, both Biochemistry & Molecular Biology majors, were recently honored with the 2018/2019 Marion Kramer Award. This award is given to high-achieving female students majoring in the biological sciences. The award was established in 2001 in honor of Dr. Marion Kramer who earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Boston... More
KHC & Behavioral Biology Student Alex Maytin Is Published in Frontiers in Marine Science
Kilachand Honors College student and Behavioral Biology major Alex Maytin (CAS '18) has just published his Keystone Honors Project on the evolution of fish color in Frontiers in Marine Science. For this research, Alex collaborated with Behavioral Biology major Gabriella Smith (CAS '17) as well as three faculty, Dr. Sarah... More