Victoria Zdanowicz Receives 2024 Denton Award
Victoria Zdanowicz of the Knott and Scmitt Labs was selected as the winner of the 2024 Denton Award for her master’s research thesis in Biology titled “Local ecology and dietary selectivity at indicators of differing orangutan habitat quality within Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, Indonesia.” This award is given for... More
2024 Master’s Research Award Recipient
Charley Mitchell of the Novak and Finnerty Labs is the inaugural recipient of the Master’s Research Award. This award provides a one-semester Research Assistantship to a continuing MS student who stands out in their field of research. During Charley's undergraduate career at Boston University, he looked at the effect of fish... More
Anna Berenson Receives 2024 Belamarich Award
Dr. Anna Berenson of the Fuxman Bass Lab was selected as the winner of the 2024 Belamarich Award for her doctoral dissertation in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry titled “Paired Yeast One-Hybrid Assays to Detect DNA-Binding Cooperativity and Antagonism Across Transcription Factors.” The selection committee was impressed by the quality of Anna’s... More
2024 Master’s Merit Scholarship Recipient
Ritika Sibal of the Knott Lab is this year’s recipient of the Master’s Merit Scholarship for continuing MS students. This scholarship is awarded to a current MS student who stands out in their studies. Ritika is a second-year master’s student in the Knott Primate Ecology and Conservation Lab. During her undergraduate... More
2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipients and Honorable Mentions
The awardees and honorable mentions for the 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition were recently posted and several Biology students were recognized. MCBB PhD student Kristen Harder of the McCall Lab, Biology PhD student Dylan Mankel of the Marlow Lab, and Biology PhD student Elif Ozsen of the... More
Abigail Robinson Receives BU Women’s Council Award
Abigail Robinson, a Biology PhD student in the Mullen Lab, received the BU Women’s Council Award. The BU Women’s Council was founded and dedicated to helping the talented young women who have chosen to pursue graduate degrees at BU. Abby studies how predator avoidance strategies, like mimicry, shape communities. Batesian... More
2024 Marion R. Kramer Scholarship Recipients
Jillian Ness, an MCBB PhD student in the Wunderlich Lab, and Kathryn Atherton, a PhD candidate in the Bioinformatics program and a BU URBAN program trainee working in the Bhatnagar Lab, received the 2024 Marion R. Kramer Scholarship. In Jillian's research, she and her team studied how enhancers work in development, More
Morgan Bennett-Smith Receives Dana Wright Fellowship
Morgan Bennett-Smith, a second year PhD student in the Buston Lab, received the Dana Wright Fellowship. Morgan's research explores the ways that the clownfish - sea anemone mutualism changes during different conditions, in particular, climatic stress events. He works on two model systems: the Red Sea clownfish (Amphiprion bicinctus) at sites... More
Abigail Robinson Receives 2023 Thomas H. Kunz Award
Abigail Robinson, a Biology PhD student in the Mullen Lab, received the 2024 Thomas H. Kunz Award. The Kunz Award recognizes and celebrates exemplary contributions by an early or mid-career scientist to the study of bats, including measurable impacts on bat research and/or conservation, student mentoring, public education, and collaborations. In... More
Alejandro Rondon Ortiz Receives Brenton R. Lutz Award
Alejandro Rondon Ortiz, a Biology PhD student in the Wolozin Lab, received the 2024 Brenton R. Lutz Award. In his study, Alejandro investigated the protein interaction networks (PINs) from the autophagy receptor SQSTM1/p62. SQSTM1/p62 regulates proteostasis by degrading cellular cargo, including protein aggregates. He employed proximity labeling and proteomics to dissect... More