Save the date! This year’s Honors & Summer Research Info Session will be held in-person on Wednesday, January 29 at 12 noon in TBL 112. Interested students can learn about honors research opportunities and/or summer research directly from faculty who will be taking students for each of these programs. Students applying… Continue reading »
Eliza Jansujwicz ’24 recently published work in the Canadian Journal of Zoology in a special issue where all of the work is related to hibernation and torpor: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2024-0144. Professor Steve Swoap explains that through a well-designed study,… Continue reading »
Professor Luana Maroja recently shared a paper published this month titled Patterns of Genomic Heterogeneity in a Classic Field Cricket Mosaic Hybrid Zone… Continue reading »
Complete and submit an application to be considered for a lab TA position in an upcoming Spring 2025 course – click this link to access the application. Deadline to submit applications is Tuesday, Dec 3. Continue reading »
Students are invited to join Biology faculty Wednesday, October 23 at 12 noon in TBL 112 for the Spring 2025 Pre-registration Information Session. Hear about Spring 2025 courses being offered, meet professors and ask questions! Students can arrive after the 12pm start if your class ends at 12:15pm. Continue reading »
The next three Fridays (Oct 4, 11 & 18) are dedicated to either Mountain Day or Biology honors thesis talks! As of right now, thesis presentations are scheduled this Friday (Oct 4) from the Savage, Dean, Banta, Maroja & Holland labs – starting at 1:00pm in TBL 112. If Mountain… Continue reading »
Dr. Andrew P Wojtovich, Associate Professor from the University of Rochester Medical Center, will be the BIMO Class of 1960’s Scholar seminar speaker Friday, Sept 27th. Dr. Wojtovich will present a talk titled “Controlling mitochondria with optogenetics: energetics and ROS production” beginning at 1:10pm in TBL 112. Continue reading »
The Biology Department invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin July 2025. The department is seeking a broadly trained immunologist who will teach upper-level courses in immunology and in their area of specialty. To read more about this position, please visit https://apply.interfolio.com/147844… Continue reading »
The Holland lab recently published a paper on grape aroma (methyl anthranilate) in The Plant Journal! Titled “Molecular basis of one-step methyl anthranilate biosynthesis in grapes, sweet orange, and maize”, the paper features the work of student researchers Michael Fallon ’24, Hisham Tadfie ’23, Aracely Watson… Continue reading »
Faculty member Steve Swoap recently published a paper in collaboration with Vincent van der Vinne and a group at Oxford: Methods to estimate body temperature and energy expenditure dynamics in fed and fasted laboratory mice: effects of sleep deprivation and light exposure. van der Vinne V,… Continue reading »
The application for the Frederick Eugene Stratton 1871 Fellowship in Biology is now available for students interested in applying to be considered. The Stratton graduate fellowship in Biology is awarded each year to a senior from any Williams College Department for further study at an institution belonging to the American Association of Universities. The fellowship is… Continue reading »
Please use this link to access the Fall 2024 application. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, May 8. Continue reading »
The Biology Pre-Registration Information Session for majors, prospective majors, and students interested in taking Biology courses in Fall 2024 will take place Monday, April 22th at 12 noon. Join the Biology faculty and our BMAC members in the first-floor study area of the Morley Science building to discuss major requirements and Fall 2024 course offerings. … Continue reading »
A new paper from work in the Williams lab has been published in Animal Behaviour – Clint Robins is a former honors student who received his Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Washington in 2023. His thesis data were collected before foreign songs were broadcast on our study… Continue reading »
Williams alum Maia Hare ’19 published work this month in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B titled “Activation of oxytocinergic neurons enhances topor in mice”. Hare’s research showed that oxytocin neurons in mice are active during a bout of torpor, a state of suppressed metabolic rate in response to fasting. … Continue reading »
The Gill lab recently published a paper titled “Biophysical Controls on Soil Carbon Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest”, now available online at Ecosystems. The Gill Lab works to understand how carbon (C) and nutrients are stored and cycled across Hopkins Memorial Forest, and how these important C pools… Continue reading »
Please use this link to access the Spring 2024 application. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, November 28. Continue reading »
Professor Luana Maroja was recently part of a large collaboration looking at phenotypic variation across Gryllus firmus and G. pennsylvanicus (and hybrids) in the USA. The researchers measured 4221 crickets across 337 localities and also looked at their life history and environments. Read the published work here: https://jor.pensoft.net/article/90713/… Continue reading »
Ward, Z., Upton, C., Iyer, M., and Williams, H. (2023) Physiological constraints and cognitive chunking: Sequence organization in the songs of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). J. Comp. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-97697-001.html The researchers asked whether zebra finches organize their songs around physiological constraints (pausing to take a breath) or cognitive… Continue reading »
Holland lab researchers Miriam Li ’23, Hisham Tadfie ’23, and Cameron Darnell ’25 have published a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on a key enzyme in tryptophan production in plants. Their experiments connected enzyme structure to function and regulation in citrus, pistachio, walnut, mosses, and the model plant Arabidopsis. Continue reading »