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
Caroline Fleming Receives McLeod Annual Award
Caroline Fleming, a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Rotjan Lab, received the 2024 McLeod Annual Award. She is an eco-physiologist who studies the energetic trade-offs marine organisms make under local and global change. Her research focuses on the temperate coral, Astrangia poculata, which lives in highly-urbanized, rapidly changing coastal ecosystems... More
2024 McLeod Summer Award Recipients
Maria Ingersoll, Biology PhD candidate in the Davies and Gilmore Labs, and Mu-Han Chen, a Biology PhD student in the Davies Lab, received the 2023 McLeod Summer Award. Maria studies the immune system of cnidarians, including coral and sea anemones, specifically in reference to their symbiosis with a photosynthetic algae that... More
Mandy Pinheiro Receives Belamarich Dissertation Writing Award
Mandy Pinheiro, an MCBB PhD candidate in the Naya Lab, received the Belamarich Dissertation Writing Award. This award complements the Belamarich Award, and is given to support an outstanding PhD student through the dissertation writing stage. Mandy’s research focuses on understanding how noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) may be central to the coordination... More
Jaice Rottenberg Receives Charles Terner Award
Jaice Rottenberg, a fifth-year CM Ph.D. student in the Fuxman Bass Lab, received the 2024 Charles Terner Award. His lab studies the role of transcriptional regulation in a wide variety of biological processes including development, immune regulation, cancer, and viral infection. His project explores the mechanisms by which human-infecting viruses... More
E Schlatter Receives 2024 Economakis Award
E Schlatter of the Buston Lab received the 2024 Alistair Economakis Award in Marine Science. This award provides support for graduate students conducting research in marine science with a focus on research related to ecology, evolution, or behavior. In their study, E uses a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to... More
Garcia-Marcos Lab work featured in new publication in Cell
The Garcia-Marcos Lab has recently published the development and implementation of a suite of G protein biosensors broadly applicable to detect GPCR activity in scalable assay formats and in physiologically relevant systems like primary cells. By directly measuring endogenous GPCR activity, these biosensors, named ONE-GO, reveal that responses are frequently... More