May 2018 May 17—The Department of Biology recently announced its list of student awardees for the spring 2018 semester. The department awarded $18,000 in awards to our students on the basis of outstanding academic performance, departmental service, and financial need. Congratulations to all! Undergraduate Awardees—Mysa Abdelrahman, Joseph Arguelles, Chaya Fastow, Rohan Mathur, Rabia Mehmoud, Simran Patel, Natalia Ryabenkova, Etel Sharipova, Wajeh Syed, Joshua Varughese, Cyrano Yee Graduate Awardees—Gabrielle Germain, Naomi Lewandowski May 9—Congratulations to Iqra Nadeem and Huda Yousuf, co-winners of the 2018 Eshel Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. The Eshel Award is awarded by the Department of Biology in memory of Professor Dan Eshel and his commitment to undergraduate research at the highest levels. This year’s Eshel Awards will be awarded in a formal ceremony, when both students will present the results of their research, in 113 Ingersoll Hall Extention on May 5 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. All are welcome. The lecture will be followed by a reception. May 4—Congratulations to Joseph Arguelles, an undergraduate student working in the Singh lab, for his award at Brooklyn College’s recent Science Day! Arguelles’ poster, “Structural analysis of knottin-like peptide in venom of parasitoid wasp Leptopilina heterotomahis,” took third prize in the undergraduate research category. May 3—Gavin Lecture in Cell and Molecular Biology (113 Ingersoll Hall Extension, 12:30–1:30 p.m). Peter Satir, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, will discuss his research in the 2018 Gavin Lecture, “Exploring ciliary nanobiology in health and disease.” The lecture will be followed by a reception. March 2018 March 22—Anjana Saxena, together with a team of researchers from the NYU Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, published a recent report in Cancer Discovery detailing how changes in the host microbiome in patients suffering from pancreatic cancer may compromise the immune system and promote tumor growth.
