A Co-op Biology assignment can transport you When Sophie Chaney went on her second co-op Biology assignment, she got in touch with a team of researchers, set up her own housing, and set off on an adventure of a lifetime. The fourth year biology student spent last spring in South Africa researching pollinators like bees, […]

Service-learning Expo First year students in Professor Begley’s Inquiries in Biology class have been engaged in Service-Learning throughout the fall semester and recently showcased their work at the university-wide Service-Learning Expo.   The students partnered with: Citizen Schools to create and deliver an after-school apprenticeship on microbes at Orchard Gardens Middle School in Roxbury Science […]

Service-learning Expo First year students in Professor Begley’s Inquiries in Biology class have been engaged in Service-Learning throughout the fall semester and recently showcased their work at the university-wide Service-Learning Expo.   The students partnered with: Citizen Schools to create and deliver an after-school apprenticeship on microbes at Orchard Gardens Middle School in Roxbury Science […]

Congratulations Prof. Chai on your 2017 NSF Career Award! In [his] years at Northeastern, Chai has helped – in collaboration with research groups at Harvard – provide techniques essential to understanding and driving future research in this field. These collaborative experiences were driven by resources provided by the College of Science, he says. “The College of […]

Science Club for Girls The mission of Science Club for Girls, a nonprofit organization founded in Cambridge, Mass. in 1994, is to “foster excitement, confidence, and literacy in STEM for girls, particularly from underrepresented communities…by maximizing meaningful interactions with women mentors.” Volunteers have been mentoring at elementary schools since the mid ‘90s, but Northeastern was […]

Hornworm Genome . . . Sequenced! An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the tobacco hornworm—a caterpillar species used in many research laboratories for studies of insect biology. . . The researchers have published their work in a paper titled “Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta” in […]

Ovary Regeneration? In a study published in the journal Stem Cells, Northeastern University biology professor James Monaghan and his team have discovered that these salamanders not only have the capability of re-growing limbs, they can also regenerate their ovaries and produce eggs throughout their lifespan. “When we remove a large portion of the ovary, it […]

If the thought of genetically-modified organ­isms, or GMOs, brings to mind vague notions fraught with danger, Nobel lau­reate and Dis­tin­guished Uni­ver­sity Pro­fessor Sir Richard John Roberts would say you needn’t worry. In fact, he argued Thursday at North­eastern that the per­ceived dan­gers of GMOs are the result of some­thing of a smear cam­paign by green […]

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 […]

The National Institutes of Health recognized Nikolai Slavov, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, with its New Innovator Award. On winning the award, Slavov said, “There is this momentum and enthusiasm for taking smart risks among both the faculty and students at Northeastern—asking big questions and doing whatever is required to contribute to their resolution.” Direct evi­dence. […]

Alumna Beth Stevens, BPH'93, discusses her cutting-edge research into the brain’s circuitry.

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 […]

MRSA Studies identify potential treatment from Bacteria found in the Human Nose Until now, conventional antibiotic discovery has focused on looking for compounds from bacteria living in dirt. But identifying novel compound structures from soil microbes has been getting harder. The new research, from Andreas Peschel and colleagues at the University of Tübingen, suggests that the […]

Congratulations to two of our Graduate Students Johanna Farkas and Polina Freitas who are co-first authors for a recent publication in Development!