Department of Biological Sciences

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.

Corinne Vietorisz '19 is studying the role of the dominant tree species and soil type on ECM fungi with a particular interest in the role of ash trees.

Professor Eric Schaller is featured in the July/August 2018 American Society of Plant Biologists' News Luminaries Column.  In the article he talks about his early interest in science, his career as a teacher and research scientist and his work as a writer of fiction.

Kudos to the Biology majors who were inducted into Dartmouth's Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and to the Phi Beta Kappa Sophmore Prize winner!

In the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine article, "Beetle Mania," Prof. Matt Ayres  talks about his work on the southern pine beetle, the impact of invasive, non-native insects and being summoned to the World Bank to discuss climate change and invasive insect species.

Illustration by Gaby D’Alessandro

Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva's work published in PNAS on the classification of microorganisms has revealed that classifying microorganisms is more complicated than previously thought. 

Sound Matters: Sex And Death In The Rain Forest.  National Public Radio interviewed Prof. Hannah ter Hofstede, Dr. Laurel Symes and Dr. Sharon Martinson about their research on the sounds of the rain forest.

Undergraduate researcher, Aldo Arellano '17, spent last summer studing the ecology of Lake Mývatn in Iceland. The research project in Iceland took an interdisciplinary approach to understanding midge flies and their influences on food webs. 

Biology Majors Marielle Brady ’17, Hae-Lin Cho ’17 and Abiah Pritchard ’17 have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Laurel Symes, Neukom Fellow, is featured in the Nature article, Research Protocols:  A forest of hypotheses.