At Dartmouth biology, you'll find diverse disciplines, prestigious faculty with a breadth of experience in biological processes, and next-generation resources and equipment. Here, undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty collaborate on laboratory research, fieldwork, and publications with real-world application. We are committed to providing students with a broad exposure to biological processes and systems and a deep understanding of biology at environmental, organismal, cellular, and molecular levels.
Prof. Mary Lou Guerinot, Dr. Garo Akmakjian and Nabila Riaz have discovered that IRL3 and PYE provide iron-deficient plants protection from photodamage.
Emma Esterman '20, her lab mates in Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva's lab and collaborators at the National Institutes of Health have published a paper that includes the research Emma completed for her senior thesis.
Prof. Carey Nadell is the recipient of an Early Career Investigator Award in Marine Microbial Ecology from the Simons Foundation for his work on biofilms.