News and Events – Page 2 – Department of Biology

Biology Teaching Labs Host Workshop for YES Program Students

August 5, 2025
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This summer, students in the Youth Engaged in Science (YES) Program participated in a 3-day lab techniques workshop in the new Biology Teaching Labs. This workshop helped prepare high school students for an immersive experience in research labs, working side-by-side with members of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case...

Qiannan Ma Publishes First Graduate Paper in FASEB Journal

July 10, 2025
graduate student, Qiannan Ma

Qiannan Ma, a PhD candidate in the Atit lab, published her first paper from her graduate work in the lab in the Journal Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Her paper titled "Wnt Activation in Mature Dermal Adipocytes Leads to Lipodystrophy and Skin Fibrosis via ATGL-Dependent Lipolysis", which highlights...

Senior Doctoral Candidates Spoke at the International Gordon Research Conference on Tissue Regeneration

July 8, 2025

Suneeti Madhavan and Qiannan Ma from the Atit Lab gave two separate invited talks in the main Gordon Research Conference in New Hampshire in June 2025. Congratulations Suneeti and Quiannan!

Christopher Cullis Presents at PacBio PRISM 2025

May 21, 2025
Christopher Cullis

Dr. Christopher Cullis, a Francis Hobart Herrick Professor of Biology, presented "Marama Bean - An orphan legume with great potential" during this year's PacBio PRISM 2025 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, May 14th-16th. He presented insights into his research on developing the marama bean (a wild legume) into a crop for...

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