Abby Robinson Receives 2025 Belamarich Dissertation Writing Award
Abby Robinson of the Mullen Lab received the 2025 Belamarich Dissertation Writing Award. This award complements the Belamarich Award, and is given to support an outstanding PhD student through the dissertation writing stage. Abby’s research focuses on understanding the ecological and evolutionary factors that allow mimetic butterflies to persist in natural... More
Isabella Arabia showcases an ant-inspired art installation for her senior thesis exhibition
Traniello Lab member and Boston Area University Consortia student Isabella Arabia has an ant-inspired art installation schedule for her senior thesis exhibition. All are invited to attend! Drawing inspiration from her research on leafcutter ants with Jordan Smith in the Traniello Lab and field studies on Atta cephalotes in Costa Rica, More
Jordan Smith Receives ABS Student Research Grant
Biology PhD student Jordan Smith from the Traniello Lab has been awarded a Student Research Grant from the Animal Behavior Society. Jordan received the grant award for her recent proposal, titled "Taste and Task: Gustatory Polyphenisms and Division of Labor in a Leafcutter Ant". The proposal received an "outstanding" rating, More
Ninon Martinez Receives the Dana Wright Fellowship
Ninon Martinez, a PhD student in the Finnerty Lab, received the Dana Wright Fellowship. Globally, reef corals are experiencing major declines, largely driven by climate change. However, many “reef corals” are habitat generalists, thriving in reef-associated habitats, such as mangroves and seagrasses. These habitats were once considered inhospitable to corals, due... More
Jacob Jaskiel, Peter Schroedl, and Lili Vizer Receive the Warren McLeod Summer Award
Jacob Jaskiel, a PhD student in the Rotjan Lab, Peter Schroedl, a PhD candidate in the Marlow Lab, and Lili Vizer, a PhD student in the Buston Lab, received the Warren McLeod Summer Award. Jacob studies tropical Pacific tunas including skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye, which constitute some of the world’s largest... More
Guangmei Liu Receives the Brenton R. Lutz Award
Guangmei Liu, a Biology PhD student in the McCall Lab, received the Brenton R. Lutz Award. Guangmei’s research focuses on glial dysfunction and its role in neurodegenerative diseases. Her work leverages a Drosophila model in which the phagocytic receptor Draper is knocked down in glia, leading to age-dependent neurodegeneration. She has identified a... More
Maria Valadez Ingersoll Receives 16th Annual GSI Grand Prize
Maria Valadez Ingersoll, a PhD student in the Gilmore and Davies labs, was recently awarded the BU Genome Science Institute (GSI) Research Symposium Grand Prize for presenting her current research. The GSI Research Symposium is an interdisciplinary event emphasizing research in Genetics and Genomics. This award provides Maria $10,000 to... More
Dr. Mandy Pinheiro Published in the Journal Development
Dr. Amanda Pinheiro, an MCBB PhD alum of the Naya Lab, recently published a paper in the journal Development. Dr. Pinheiro's paper was selected to appear as a “Research Highlight”, and both she and Dr. Naya were interviewed by the journal in “The people behind the papers” to discuss the significance... More
New Book on the Natural History of the Belizean Island
Dr. John Finnerty, Dr. Karina Scavo Lord (GRS 2021, Finnerty Lab), Biology PhD student Ninon Martinez of the Finnerty Lab, and Hubert Gillett of Turneffe Atoll Sustainability Association, recently announce the availability of their new book — the first of a planned series on the natural history of Calabash Caye, More
Alanna Carey Receives NIH Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative D-SPAN Award
Alanna Carey, a PhD student in the Chen Lab, recently received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award. The purpose of this award is to support a defined pathway across career stages for outstanding graduate students who... More