Last year, a team led by Northeastern professor Kim Lewis discovered teixobactin, an antibiotic that eliminates bacteria without encountering any detectable resistance.

2016 Annual Biology Graduate Colloquium The annual biology graduate colloquium took place on the 18th and 19th of May this year. The two-day event ended with a cookout. Our graduate students are required to hone their research presentation skills to help prepare them for careers as scientists. This annual colloquium allows students to present amongst fellow […]

"I would say that my biggest achieve­ment at North­eastern was man­aging to bal­ance all of the demands on my time needed to meet the aca­d­emic and extracur­ric­ular goals I set for myself, while still man­aging to explore inter­ests unre­lated to these goals and to have fun."

"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."

Our Undergraduate Biochemistry Club was honored nationally and on campus. The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) designated the The Northeastern Chapter of the Biochemistry Club as the 2016 Outstanding Chapter. The University has also awarded the group with a 2016 Phoenix Award. Congratulations to our students for this recognition of their enthusiasm […]

“When Sophie Chaney packed up her bags and headed off to her co-op in Cape Town, South Africa, she anticipated working in the field for the South African National Biodiversity Institute. The biology major has done that, often collecting pollen samples from flowers in order to compare them to other samples captured in other areas. […]

Huntington 100 Program Awards Six Distinguished Juniors and Seniors of Biology Department Majors this year! Congratulations to our Biology Department students: Berit Lindell–dual major in Biology and Sociology, Rebecca Larson–Biochemistry; Kristian Teichert–Biochemistry; Lola (Ololade) Akingbade–Behavioral Neuroscience; Ralph Peterson–Behavioral Neuroscience, and Madeleine Smith–Behavioral Neuroscience! These six students are being honored with the Huntington 100 award. The Huntington 100 program […]

Congratulations to both Johanna Farkas, Biology PhD Candidate, for being awarded the Dean's Excellence Award in Teaching and Brittany Berdy, Biology PhD Candidate, for being awarded the Dean's Excellence Award in Leadership!

"It’s no sur­prise that when North­eastern researchers reported last May how the bac­terium that causes [Lyme] dis­ease evades antibi­otics, sug­gesting new [Lyme Disease] treat­ments, the media and the gen­eral public took notice." -Thea Singer for COS News

" 'What con­trols how long an organism lives?' he asks. 'I study that ques­tion in worms, which are a great model because they live only about two weeks, so I can do exper­i­ments quickly and rel­a­tively inex­pen­sively . . . many of the genes that affect lifespan in worms affect lifespan in other organisms.' " – News@Northeastern article by Thea Singer

"Northeastern University Distinguished Professor Kim Lewis has received a $1.5 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to develop better treatments for Lyme disease." –COS News Article

Congratulations to Prof. Missy McElligott for winning the 2015-2016 College of Science Excellence in Teaching Award!

"Scientists and researchers. Educators and future doctors. These were the people behind NU Talk 2016, from the organizers to the presenters themselves. But the impacts and implementations that were presented do not just affect the scientific community. They are global, and they concern the future of society as a whole. The main idea of NU Talk 2016, which was January 28, 2016, was to voice student passions to a general…

"Transcriptional regulation is a tightly regulated, vital process. The transcription factor (TF) CREB1 controls ~25% of the mammalian transcriptome by binding the CRE sequence (TGACGTCA). DNA lesions within CRE modulate CREB1 binding negatively and positively."