The 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships were announced and the Department of Biology is proud to acknowledge four graduate students for their awards:<\/p>\n
Tiffany Dill<\/strong> (Naya Lab<\/a>): characterizing the roles of Mef2 and the Gtl2-Dio3 cluster in regulating the cell cycle of terminally differentiated heart muscle cells. Also examining how these transcription factors and microRNAs affect the cell cycle of proliferating cell types, such as stem cells.\u00a0Tiffany is in the Cell and Molecular Biology program<\/a>.<\/p>\n Amanda Gallinat<\/strong> (Primack Lab<\/a>):\u00a0studying the effects of climate change on the autumn phenology of plants, insects, and birds in New England.\u00a0Amanda is in the Ecology, Behavior and Evolution program<\/a><\/p>\n Andrew Hoadley <\/strong>(Traniello Lab<\/a>): studying the relationship between division of labor, brain investment, and synaptic structure in the leaf-cutter ant A. cephalotes<\/em>. Results will provide insight on how subcaste-related division of labor is controlled and how brain architecture underscores task specialization in complex social organisms.\u00a0Andrew\u00a0 is in theEcology, Behavior and Evolution program<\/a><\/p>\n Bryan Matthews <\/strong>(Waxman Lab<\/a>): to elucidate what global epigenetic and gene regulatory circuits drive sex-specific gene expression in mouse liver.\u00a0Bryan is in the Cell and Molecular Biology program<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition, several students also received honorable mentions: <\/p>\n Congratulations, students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships were announced and the Department of Biology is proud to acknowledge four graduate students for their awards: Tiffany Dill (Naya Lab): characterizing the roles of Mef2 and the Gtl2-Dio3 cluster in regulating the cell cycle of terminally differentiated heart muscle cells. Also examining how these transcription […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKatelyn Mansfield (Gilmore Lab<\/a>)
\nAndressa Mota (Ho Lab<\/a>)
\nSandy Serizier (McCall Lab<\/a>)
\nSarah Yunes (Hansen Lab<\/a>)<\/p>\n