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Claire Celestin, a fifth-year behavioral neuroscience student at Northeastern, is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology
She Met a Peruvian Midwife, and That Changed Everything
Claire Celestin, a fifth-year behavioral neuroscience student at Northeastern, is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship.
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Professor Dagmar Sternad studies human movement with Boston ballet dancers in her lab on January 9, 2019. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology, Physics
What Secrets Do Ballet Dancers Hold For People With Disabilities? Or For Robots?
Dagmar Sternad is looking to ballet dancers to find answers for people with disabilities through studies of human motor control and learning.
Top row (Left to Right): A transition from normal epithelial cells in a honeycomb pattern to shifted cells. This transition leads to increasing disorder in their shapes. Bottom row: Simulated patterns from the theoretical vertex model recapitulate cell shapes and topologies. Experimental images are adapted from
Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez & Jennifer A. Zallen, Current Biology Volume 18 Issue 4 Pages 163-165, (2008)
Biology, Physics
These Cells Protect Your Organs, but Cancer May Send Them Running. Here’s a Theory Why.
Assistant Professor of Physics Max Bi helped develop a model of cell behavior, explaining why certain conditions cause epithelial cells to transition from a solid to a fluid-like state.
Alex Lovely presenting his poster at the Society for Developmental Biology 2018 Northeast Meeting. Photo courtesy of Alex Lovely.
Biology
Student Spotlight: Alex Lovely
Graduate student Alex Lovely shares some details and advice while reflecting on his personal experience here at Northeastern University.
Sequencing the genome of the blackfin icefish might help us better understand anemia, osteoporosis, and other aliments. Photo: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
Icefish Have Antifreeze in Their Blood, Anemia, and Osteoporosis. And They Feel Just Fine.
Northeastern professor H. William Detrich, a leader of an international collaboration that has recently sequenced the genome of the blackfin icefish.
Gunther Zupanc and Rifat Sipahi work in a lab in Mugar. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Biology
This Might be Why Some Tumors Grow Back Aggressively After Cancer Treatments
Northeastern researchers may have discovered why cancer cells can regenerate after treatment.
Samuel V. Scarpino, Ph.D., Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Biochemistry, Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Physics
Whooping Cough is Back. Here’s the Global Collaboration to Fight It.
Nearly 50 scientists collaborated with Physics Professor Sam Scarpino to develop a compendium on pertussis and dispute the reasoning for its resurgence worldwide.
Graphic by Hannah Moore/Northeastern University
Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology, Psychology
You Want To Manage Your Anger Better. Your Brain Wants You to Stay Alive. Here’s How You Can Do Both.
Can you discern the differences among all the subtle shades of your anger? Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how emotion and the brain are linked.
Photo courtesy of Ella Brunsting
Biology
Building the Perfect Co-op, Cell by Cell
Second year cell and molecular biology student Ella Brunsting designed her own co-op, ultimately placing her in Belgium at the GIGA Institute.
Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Biochemistry, Biology
Research Grants Awarded to Two Undergraduate Students
Two undergraduate students working in Professor Rebecca Shansky’s lab were awarded research grants from the Mindlin Foundation and Northeastern University.