Faculty News
Dr. Catherine Klapperich’s Research Featured in BU Research
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Dr. Kathleen Morgan’s Collaborative Work Featured in BU Today
Dr. Kathy Morgan, a professor at Sargent College and Dr. Tyone Porter, pose for a photo on Wednesday, December 20, 2017.
The team are working at “the interface of the cardiovascular system and the brain.”
Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography
Read the full article "Hearts, Minds, and Microbubbles" in BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/hearts-minds-and-microbubbles/
Dr. Beeler Awarded a $975k Grant from DARPA
Assistant Professor Aaron Beeler was recently awarded a $975,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) titled “High-Throughput Chemistry Platform (HTCP) for Reaction Screening.” The funding, which will last a year, will help Professor Beeler and his Co-PI’s, Professors Scott Schaus andJohn Porco of Chemistry and Professor Eric Kolaczyk of Mathematics, develop a proof-of-concept High-Throughput Chemistry Platform (HTCP) capable of interrogating unexplored chemical “reaction space”. The platform will be used to significantly expand the scope and knowledge around known reactions and to discover unknown transformations through reaction discovery.
Dr. Vegas Awarded a Two-Year Grant from Combined Therapeutics
Assistant Professor Arturo Vegas was recently awarded a $255,000 grant from Combined Therapeutics. This nontraditional corporate funding, which will last for 2 Years, will help Professor Vegas as he aims to reduce the immunogenicity and alter the tissue tropism of viral-based therapies.
Dr. Douglas Densmore Named Top-Five Innovator by Design Automation Conference
Read the full article in the Fall 2017 Bostonia.
Dr. Emili Heads New Center for Network Systems Biology
Read the full article in BU Today.
Dr. Khalil Featured Speaker at Nexus of Life Sciences and Engineering Symposium
Dr. Sgro Receives Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship
From the ENG News post by Joel Brown, BU Today:
Allyson Sgro, a College of Engineering assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been chosen for this year’s Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship, which supports the work of a junior faculty member whose scholarship spans more than one school or college. Sgro’s work bridges biology and engineering and draws on her background in chemistry and biophysics, exploring how cells work together and make group decisions to perform complex behaviors such as assembling into a tissue, forming a biofilm, or healing a wound.
“I have some really fantastic students who are excited about where this work is taking us, and I’m hoping to invest the stipend in training them, to give them the kind of education I had, to go to conferences and meet people from different fields,” says Sgro, who joined BU in January and whose lab recently moved into the new Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering. Sgro says her professorship, funded by BU trustee Ruth Moorman (CAS’88, SED’89,’09) and her husband, Sheldon Simon, “will also allow us to investigate ideas we have that are a little unconventional between fields, that we don’t have more conventional support for, to push into new areas.”
Sgro received a master’s and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Washington and completed postdoctoral training at Princeton.
Dr. Gilmore Gives Keynote Talk at the 15th Annual Asian Conference on Transcription in Malaysia
In early August, Professor Tom Gilmore gave the invited keynote talk at the 15th Annual Asian Conference on Transcription in Penang, Malaysia. Gilmore’s talk, “A Billion Years of Transcription Factor NF-kB,” covered his lab’s research on the role of the NF-kB protein in immune diseases from simple marine invertebrates to humans.
Dr. Dunlop Receives Young Investigator Award
Assistant Professor Mary Dunlop (BME) is the 2017 recipient of the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes the contributions of scientists who have made a major impact on the field of synthetic biology, early on in their careers.
“It is a great honor to receive the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award this year,” said Dunlop. “Synthetic biology is an emerging field with many excellent early career scientists. I am thrilled to be recognized for my research group’s efforts on engineering biological feedback control systems.”
Dunlop joined the faculty at Boston University in January 2017. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on systems and synthetic biology with a focus on feedback in gene regulatory networks. The Dunlop Lab studies naturally occurring examples of feedback to understand their implications for survival in changing conditions to understand how microorganisms use feedback to respond to changes in their environment. She also engineers novel, synthetic feedback control systems. To support her research she has three current grants: a National Science Foundation CAREER Award; a National Institutes of Health R01; and a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency award.