PhD student Alison Wirshing, of the Cram Lab, was recently published in the journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell, for her work on reproductive processes of C. elegans.

PhD student Alison Wirshing, of the Cram Lab, was recently published in the journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell, for her work on reproductive processes of C. elegans.

Some 100 high school students spent Thursday meeting faculty members, touring labs and research facilities, and seeing science in action at Northeastern as part of the American Junior Academy of Science’s annual conference.

Erin Cram, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in Biology, sits down with the College of Science Graduate Program staff to talk about her research at Northeastern University.

Erin Cram, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in Biology, sits down with the College of Science Graduate Program staff to talk about her research at Northeastern University.

Faculty Highlight: Prof. Erin Cram The College of Science Graduate Program staff talks with Prof. Cram about her research at Northeastern University in this faculty highlight. Can you tell us about your current research? We have two current projects in the lab. They’re both overlapping with engineering projects. The first is to improve production of […]

Poster Award goes to . . . Alison Wirshing! Congratulations to Biology PhD student Alison Wirshing for winning the International Society of Differentiation Beverly McKinnell Student Award (and 1000€) at the Society for Developmental Biology Poster Competition this past weekend! Alison participated in the 75th Annual Meeting ISD 19th International Conference (http://sdbonline.org/2016mtg). After being selected […]

"Mind­ful­ness helped me in ways I never imag­ined it could. It made me so much calmer, so much hap­pier. That per­sonal expe­ri­ence has made me want to pro­vide the same for others. When I’m a physi­cian and a researcher, I want it to be part of my approach."

"Dr. Carolyn Lee-Parsons, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Biology, and Dr. Erin Cram, Associate Professor of Biology, have received a $650,000 grant from the NSF to investigate the production of cancer drugs in Catharanthus roseus, also known as the Madagascar periwinkle." –COS News Article

Two professors - one from the biology department and the other from the chemistry and chemical biology department - have been awarded more than a half-million dollars to investigate the production of cancer drugs in Catharanthus roseus.

Human bodies work in odd ways. But the majority of the population figures it’s enough that blood gets pumped, air gets exchanged, and synapses fire. In fact, most people don’t even think about the physiological machinations our bodies go through every second of every day.

Human bodies work in odd ways. But the majority of the population figures it’s enough that blood gets pumped, air gets exchanged, and synapses fire. In fact, most people don’t even think about the physiological machinations our bodies go through every second of every day.