Lab News
Congratulations to our 2025 graduates: Abby Farrell (MS), Sunmin Kim (MS), Ding Xin (Honors thesis), Delaney Foster (Honors thesis), and all graduating lab members in the class of 2025!
BIG NEWS: As of September 2025, the Rotjan Lab moved to the Tufts University Department of Biology. Please note: both Boston University and Tufts students are able to seamlessly take courses at the opposite institution via the Boston Area Consortia cross registration program. This applies to undergraduate and graduate students! This is a wonderful way to leverage the best of both schools, especially as we are in the process of transition. More information on the consortia can be found here for BU students and Tufts students.
Congratulations to Brian Kennedy and Steve Auscavitch on this awesome new publication – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-86163-z This paper was highlighted by BBC Wildlife: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/seamount-illustration-central-pacific and at BU the Brink: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/first-detailed-illustration-of-ancient-deep-sea-mountain/
Another summer at sea! Brooke Winsmann, Ding Xin, and Nikhil Gupta sailed aboard the SSV Robert C Seamans in summer 2024 with SEA to collect more plankton for the lab. Woohoo!
Congratulations to all of our 2024 graduates in Biology and Marine Science! A special shout out to Chenyang Wu, who defended an honors thesis entitled: Establishing relationships between ichthyoplankton and zooplankton: Do invertebrate communities’ impact larval fish size and abundance in the open ocean?
Randi went to sea (December 2023) onboard the R/V Falkor(Too) with the Schmidt Ocean Institute. Check it out: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/octopus-odyssey-too/
Brian went to sea in Summer 2023 as the Lead Scientist aboard the R/V Nautilus! Check it out: https://nautiluslive.org/people/brian-kennedy
Congratulations to all of our 2023 graduates! And a special shout out to Abigail Grassick, winner of the College Prize in Marine Science, and to Calvin Yu, winner of the Binland Lee Service Award in Marine Science! Rockstars!