"Kevin Gozzi, . . . fourth-year biology student is the co-first author of the [Chai] lab’s most recent publication, which centers on chemical signals that stimulate bacterial biofilm formation and the underlying mechanisms."–COS News Article by Gwendolyn Schanker, Journalism and Biology majors, 2018

"The Net­work Sci­ence Insti­tute brings together an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team of renowned scholars from across the uni­ver­sity to dis­cover and inspire new ways to mea­sure, model, and pre­dict mean­ingful inter­ac­tions in social, phys­ical, bio­log­ical, and tech­no­log­ical sys­tems."–COS News Article by Thea Singer

"Maggy Benson is now the host and pro­ducer of Smith­sonian Sci­ence How, a live, half-​​hour web­cast aimed at intro­ducing middle school stu­dents to the research and per­son­al­i­ties of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Nat­ural His­tory." –COS News Article by Jason Kornwitz

"Experience tells us that sleep has a purpose; when we don’t get enough we feel and perform poorly and we develop an overwhelming drive to get sleep. Despite this, the functions of sleep and the reasons it evolved in so many animals are not fully understood." - COS News article by Jason Kornwitz

"Assistant professor Nikolai Slavov upends conventional wisdom about protein synthesis, indicating an active, rather than passive, role for the machinery behind the process."–News@Northeastern article by Thea Singer

"Philip Strandwitz wants you. Really. He also wants all of your friends, and probably your parents and relatives, too. Strandwitz, a PhD candidate for microbiology in Kim Lewis’s lab, the Antimicrobial Discovery Center, is taking a creative approach to big data that could be a model for the future of science." –Emily Ashbolt, Biomedical Physics, 2017 COS News article

Cellular and Molecular Biology: Investigating Life at the Cellular Level The cellular and molecular biology major includes the background in mathematics, chemistry, and physics needed in the study of biology and the practical scientific skills associated with each of these subject areas. The major offers core courses in cell biology and in human genetics and […]

Prof. Dagmar Sternad won the Best Paper Award at a recent meeting in Valencia Spain (June 9-12): IVCR 2015.

After two years of grant applications and months of planning, the Department of Biology is launching a Research Experience for Undergraduates program during the summers of 2015-2017.

Jonathan Tilly's infertility research has led to the birth of a baby born with an assist from stem cells. Tilly is the chair of the Department of Biology.

Jonathan Tilly's infertility research has led to the birth of a baby born with an assist from stem cells. Tilly is the chair of the Department of Biology.

"On December 2, 2014, national representatives of Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honor Society were on campus to install the Chi Delta Epsilon Chapter and induct 85 undergraduate students." –COS News

The undergraduate students in these courses have worked all semester to develop and present a poster on a primary research article of his/her selection. Many of these posters present research published by members of our Biology faculty!

“Three North­eastern Uni­ver­sity students—Theo Bowe, S’16 [Biology Major], Tushar Swamy, E’15, and Greg Allan, E’16—have been selected to receive the pres­ti­gious Barry M. Gold­water Scholarship.” –News@Northeastern article by Greg St. Martin