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.
Emma Esterman '20 is the recipient of this year's The Francis L. Town Scientific Prize in Biology for academic excellence in her biology coursework and for her research endeavors.
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Congratulations Connor Bodarchuk '19, Anant Mishra '19, Arvind Suresh '19, Elizabeth Terman '19, Emma Esterman '20 and Armin Tavakkoli '20!
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The Neukom Fellows program is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral program at Dartmouth that may provide another means of working with or being mentored by faculty in our department.
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Professor Hicks Pries is studying the effects of climate change on soils and on finding ways to retain carbon in soils.
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Professor Carey Nadell and the members of his laboratory study the collaborative microbial communites called biofilms.
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Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva’s recent publication investigates the mystery of why some microbes produce viruses that don’t behave like typical viruses.
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Professor Hannah ter Hofstede, Neukom Fellow Dr. Laurel Symes and biologist Dr. Sharon Martinson are interested in understanding the stratagies and trade-offs employed by insects that allow them to attract mates while trying to avoid notice by bat predators.
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Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva's recent publication examines what happens when Kosmotoga oearia, the record holder of the growth temperature range, experiences a change in temperature.
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Prof. Richard Holmes has been awarded the New England Society Book Award for his book Hubbard Brook: The Story of a Forest Ecosystem (Yale University Press, 2016).
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Prof. Sharon Bickel's lab has demonstrated that oxidative damage causes a premature loss of sister chromatid cohesion and an increase in chromosome segregation errors in Drosophila oocytes during meiosis.
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