Sasha Vivelo Awarded Mycological Society of America Graduate Fellowship
Ph.D. candidate, Sasha Vivelo, of the Bhatnagar lab was recently awarded a $2,000 Mycological Society of America Graduate Fellowship for her plan of study titled "Determining the Patterns and Drivers of Fungal Decomposer Succession." This award will help to cover cDNA sample sequencing for transcriptome analysis.
2018 Biology Department Undergraduate Research Awards
Please join us in congratulating the three winners of the 2018 Biology Department Undergraduate Research Awards: Milad Babaei, Linnea Smith, and Rebekah Zhang! Milad Babaei performed research with the Gilmore lab on CRISPR-based targeting of the NEMO adapter protein for tissue-specific inactivation of NF-kB signaling. Linnea Smith performed research with the Primack... More
BMB Students Recognized in Barry Goldwater and Beckman Scholarship Programs
Congratulations to Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (BMB) major Katie Tiemeyer who was recently selected as a Barry Goldwater Scholar and a Beckman Foundation Scholar! Katie is the only BU student this year to receive a Goldwater scholarship, a national honor awarded to students based on a strong commitment to, and potential for, a... More
Davies Lab Attends Society for Women in Marine Science Spring Symposium
On March 24th, the Davies Lab attended its first research symposium! A total of 9 lab members made their way to the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography in Narragansett for the Society for Women in Marine Science Spring Symposium. Seven BU Undergraduates participated in this event, and... More
Ashley Comer Receives the Brenton R. Lutz Award
GPN PhD candidate, Ashley Comer, of the Cruz-Martin Lab was the recent recipient of the Brenton R. Lutz Award for 2018. Ashley studies genes that regulate the development and plasticity of neural circuits and how circuit development is perturbed in diseased states. Specifically, she studies the development of the prefrontal cortex... More
Ashley Penvose Receives the Marion R. Kramer Award
PhD candidate, Ashley Penvose, of the Siggers Lab was the recent recipient of the Marion R. Kramer Award for 2018. Ashley’s research focuses on understanding how the type II nuclear receptors regulate gene expression, with a focus on DNA sequence specifity and allosteric mechanisms of regulation. The Marion R. Kramer Award provides... More
Rebecca Branconi Receives the Thomas H. Kunz Award
PhD candidate, Rebecca Branconi, of the Buston Lab was the recent recipient of the Thomas H. Kunz Award for 2018. Rebecca's research focuses on reassessing a classic question in evolutionary biology - why has sociality evolved? Her research combines descriptive and experimental work to test how different factors, ecological and social constraints... More
Professor Primack Work on Borneo Forests Published in Nature Communications
For the past 38 years, Professor Primack, his students and colleagues have been studying long-term research plots in species rich rain forests on the tropical island of Borneo. In a recent article in Nature Communications, Primack and numerous colleagues show that these forests are increasing over time in... More
Graduate Students Awarded Warren-Mcleod Fellowships
Congratulations to the 2018 winners of the Warren-McLeod Graduate Fellowships! Recipient of the full year Warren-McLeod Fellowship: Tina Barbasch - Biology PhD candidate in the Buston lab | Negotiations Over Offspring Care: A Test of Alternative Hypothesis Using the Clown Anemonefish Recipients of the summer Warren-McLeod Fellowships: Emily Chua - Earth & Environment... More
BMB Students Receive Victoria Finnerty Awards from the Genetics Society of America
Oandy Naranjo, BMB Class of 2018, and Katie Tiemeyer, BMB (CAS) and CFA Class of 2020, have received Victoria Finnerty Awards from the Genetics Society of America. Both students conducted their research in the McCall Lab, and Katie Tiemeyer’s research was supported by UROP in the summer and fall of... More