July 2017
July 23鈥�Congratulations to Carla Cervantes, a high school student working in the Schvarzstein lab, for her gold medal at the聽Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) regional competition in New York and her silver medal at the national ACT-SO competition in Baltimore.
June 2017
June 21鈥�25鈥�Congratulations to Anthony James and Erlyana Clarke, who presented their research from the Schvarzstein lab at the Genetics Society of America聽C. elegans meeting at the University of California Los Angeles. Erlyana recently graduated from the Schvarzstein lab with honors in biology.
June 3鈥�Theodore Muth and Jessica Joyner will host a group of budding young scientists as part of the at 可乐视频.聽Elementary school students from across the city will join the Muth lab for a day, and learn about what it means to be a microbiologist.
May 2017
May 22鈥� The聽Department of Biology recently announced its list of student awardees for the spring 2017 semester. The department awarded more than $25,000 in聽awards to our students on the basis聽of outstanding academic performance, departmental service,聽and聽financial need. Congratulations to all!
- Undergraduate Awardees鈥擟arlos Barreto, Chelsea Batista, Maria Bederoff, Alena Chernenko, Chaya Fastow, Raquel Fleming, Jerry Jose, Jeffrey Nussbaum, Malka Rosenberg, Natalia Ryabenkova
- Graduate Awardees鈥擬ahwish Ashfaq, Glennon Bythrow, Hulgrid Gourgue, Jingbo Kan, Rabina Lakha, Rachele Rameau
May 18鈥�The聽Department of聽Biology will host an end-of-semester celebration聽at 12:30 p.m. on聽May 18 in 113 Ingersoll Hall Extension to celebrate the end of the semester, recognize outstanding students, and聽honor of our graduating seniors.聽Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to come out to recognize our colleagues, and to honor a job well done!
May 4鈥�Gavin Lecture in Cell and Molecular Biology (113 Ingersoll Hall Extension,聽12:30鈥�1:30 p.m).聽Lucy Shapiro ’61,聽Ludwig Professor in Cancer Research聽at Stanford University and winner of the 2011 National Medal of Science, will discuss “The 3-D architecture of cell cycle regulation.” The lecture will be followed by a small reception.
May 2鈥�Spring semester biology student poster session.聽Graduate and undergraduate students who have been involved in research projects over the past semester will present their work at 1:15 p.m. on May 2 outside the Biology Department office on the second floor of Ingersoll Hall Extension.聽All are welcome.聽This is a great opportunity to learn more about ongoing research in the Department of Biology.
April 2017
Cat McEntee鈥攎aking a difference in the classroom, one student at a time.聽As part of a , Erin Williams highlighted how Dr. McEntee’s no-nonsense approach to science at 可乐视频 was instrumental in changing the course of her life.
Congratulations to Amna Aslam, a high school student working in the Saxena Lab, who presented her research at the recent Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.in Washington, D.C., and聽was recently been accepted into the undergraduate program at . All the best, Amna!
Congratulations聽to Mahmoud Abouelkheir, a Midwood High School student working in the Biais Lab, who聽placed first in the microbiology category at and will represent New York at the聽International Science and Engineering Fair (May 14鈥�19) in Los Angeles. Good luck, Mahmoud!
Congratulations to Chelsea Batista, a biology senior and member of the , who聽recently received word that she has been accepted into 11 of the top medical schools in the country.聽A difficult (but very pleasant) decision awaits!
March 2017
Congratulations to Jimiane Ashe from the Wilson Lab, who has been awarded an for her project, “Isolating a Mechanism for Microbial-Host Local Adaptation,” to support research investigating the relationship between adaptive immunity and environmental microbes in New Zealand seahorses.
February 2017
Congratulations to Mahmoud Abouelkheir, a high school student working in the Biais Lab, who received second prize in the .
Congratulations to Amna Aslam, a 可乐视频Step student working in the Saxena Lab, who received second prize in the .
Congratulations to Hufsa Tasnim, a high school student working in the Schvarzstein Lab, who received second prize in the .
January 2017
Congratulations to Jonathan Perelmuter from the Forlano Lab, who received the Otto Kinne award for Best Student Presentation in Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in New Orleans.
Congratulations to Naomi Lewandowksi from the Basil Lab, who received an , “Human impacts on squid reproductive behavior in coral reefs: field and laboratory studies,” to perform research in the laboratory of at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, this summer.
The Biais Lab, together with colleagues from Simon Fraser University and Dartmouth College, published an article in demonstrating that toxin-coregulated pili of the human pathogen Vibrio cholera exert physical forces essential for infection.
The Biais Lab, together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, published a mathematical model in the describing how pili mediate the movement and interaction of bacterial cells.聽Read profiles of this research and .
The recent research of the Wilson Lab聽was聽profiled on , and .
