See what our graduate students and Post Docs have recently been up to! For past awards and recognition visit the Tufts Department of Biology Website: https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/news/student.htm.
Jenna Whalen (Freudenreich Lab) recently published a paper on the Cell Reports home page. Relocation of Collapsed Forks to the Nuclear Pore Complex Depends on Sumoylation of DNA Repair Proteins and Permits Rad51 Assocation.
Congratulations to Gabriela Garcia (Orians Lab) who has won the Graduate Student Council Award for Outstanding Graduate Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion Award.
Congratulations to graduating OCMS student, Vincent Pham, for recently being awarded a Fulbright fellowship to do research in Vienna, Austria.
In March 2020, Ritwika Mukherjee (Trimmer Lab Group) successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Neuromechanics of proleg grip-release and strike behavior in caterpillar Manduca sexta.“
In March 2020, Alexandra Khristich (Mirkin Lab Group) successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Investigating mechanisms of large-scale GAA repeat contraction.”
In November 2019, Brenna Gormally (Romero Lab Group) successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Expanding the stress phenotype: a multimodal assessment of acute and chronic stress.”
In the Fall of 2019, Avalon Owens (Lewis Lab Group) was awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship, and published a perspective piece in Biological Conservation that was picked up by a few media outlets:
- The Guardian. 2019. Light pollution is key ‘bringer of insect apocalypse’
- Smithsonian Magazine. 2019. The devastating role of light pollution in the ‘insect apocalypse’
- Daily Mail. 2019. Light pollution is driving the INSECT APOCALYPSE, scientists claim — from luring moths to their deaths to making bugs more visible to predators
- New York Post. 2019. Scientists reveal light pollution is driving the ‘insect apocalypse’
- Gizmodo. 2019. Bug scientists uncover a new cause of the insect apocalypse
Ritwika Mukherjee (Trimmer Lab Group) co-authored an article published in the Journal of Comparative Neurology in October 2019:
“Mukherjee, R., & Trimmer, B. A. (2019). Local and generalized sensitization of thermally evoked defensive behavior in caterpillars. Journal of Comparative Neurology.” https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.24797
Eric Scott (Orians Lab Group) won first place for his talk in the chemical ecology section at the Entomological Society of America annual meeting.
Jessica Rozek Canizares (Reed Lab Group) collaborated on an article and co-authored a book chapter examining the ways biodiversity integrates into Water Diplomacy. 2019.
- Article:
van Rees, C. B., Cañizares, J. R., Garcia, G. M., & Reed, J. M. (2019). Ecological stakeholder analogs as intermediaries between freshwater biodiversity conservation and sustainable water management. Environmental Policy and Governance, 29(4), 303-312. - Book Chapter:
van Rees, C.B., G.M. Garcia and J.R. Cañizares. “Confronting the natural domain: strategies for addressing ecosystems and biodiversity in complex water management challenges.” Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Water Diplomacy: A Principled and Pragmatic Approach, 1st Edition (eds. Islam, S. and Smith, K.). 187-207. Routeldge.