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The Department of Biology hosted it’s 11th annual Spring Biology Day that hosted former alum, Christina Curran-Alfaro, as the keynote speaker. With over 100 attendees spanning alum, current undergraduates, graduate students, and students from East Side High School & Camden High School, the event was a huge success. Congrats goes out to the award winners! … Continue reading 2024 Biology Day Awards Released!…

Huge congrats to the undergraduates who won top awards in the 2023 Virtual Biology Day, demonstrating their excellence in research. Judge Pick: Shaan Mody from the Yakoby Lab for “The Impact of Enhancer Proximity on the Shared Regulation of the Drosophila Tandem Paralogs Mid and H15 Genes“ Peer Pick: Elias Gabriel from the Daniel Lab … Continue reading vBIO Day 2023 Awards Announced!…

Andrey Grigoriev Codes For Life – Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Software for Biomolecular Interactions (co-PI, with PI Grace Brannigan); NSF Training Grant $1,999,999

Marien Solesio Mitochondrial inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) as a key regulator of mammalian mitochondrial physiology; NSF $949.958 Mitochondrial inorganic polyphosphate in the mammalian stress response; NIH R35 $1,956,467

Xingyun Qi BRC-BIO: Investigation of the role of ABA in stomatal formation in a novel drought-tolerant mutant; NSF $445,676 Osmotic regulation of a peptide ligand-mediated signaling; NIH R35 $1,956,467

Anthony Geneva Evolutionary Genomics of Atadenoviruses; NSF $502,001 Codes For Life – Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Software for Biomolecular Interactions (co-PI, with PI Grace Brannigan); NSF Training Grant $1,999,999