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Elephants, it turns out, have been outsmarting scientists for decades — just not in the way we originally thought. Joshua Plotnik, director of Comparative Cognition for Conversation Lab at the City University of New York, delivered a PBS Colloquium lecture on March 4 in Gilman Hall about cognitive flexibility in Asian elephants and revealed a few of the insights gained in the field of comparative cognition.
(03/04/26 4:55pm)
On Jan. 16, Senior Research Specialist Sarah Ernst at Hopkins School of Medicine was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award for her work building “Maryland Lighthouse,” demonstrating this year’s theme – “Impact: The Power of Communities.” “Maryland Lighthouse” focuses on providing emotional and financial support to families dealing with pregnancy loss, infant loss and child loss.
(02/24/26 10:29pm)
On Thursday, Feb. 19, Ali May, an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented her research on the various ways tissue resident macrophages shape embryonic salivary gland development as part of the Department of Biology Seminar Series. Through her research, primarily on embryonic salivary glands, May presented her investigation on macrophages and their capabilities to potentially guide organ development, expanding the role of these cells outside of fighting infection and sculpting tissue architecture during the cell cycle.
(03/01/26 11:52pm)
On Friday, Jan. 23, I had the privilege of attending the University of Maryland’s Spatial Biology Symposium, which featured talks on developmental biology, cancer and neuroscience. In this piece, I highlight one particular talk that caught my interest — given by Elana Fertig, Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland. Fertig’s talk centered around rethinking how we can predict and monitor the carcinogenesis of pancreatic cancer through a spatial biology and computational lens. Although my knowledge in the field of spatial biology is limited, frankly, I would like to offer my best understanding of the key ideas and takeaways.
(11/19/25 2:32am)
The Nexus of Open Science symposium took place on Nov. 14, bringing together leaders in neuroscience, clinical research, biomedical engineering and data science to explore topics ranging from FAIR data and software standards to improving the accessibility of AI tools in biomedical contexts like neuroimaging. Among the talks given, Georg Oeltzschner, Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, discussed a topic that may sound rather familiar to students with Organic Chemistry experience: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. To those without previous exposure, however, a NMR spectroscopy diagram may just look like a series of arbitrary peaks.
(11/15/25 3:45am)
On Thursday, Oct. 23, the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science hosted Aaron Roth, a professor of computer and cognitive science in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, to give a talk titled "Agreement and Alignment for Human-AI Collaboration." This talk involves the results of three papers: Tractable Agreement Protocols (2025 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing), Collaborative Prediction: Tractable Information Aggregation via Agreement (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) and Emergent Alignment from Competition.
(11/07/25 6:00am)
Family has always been important to those working in population genetics. When Sohini Ramachandran was a postdoc, the issue of relatives in a dataset causing inaccurate results was considered a major problem in the field. In a Biology Department Seminar held at Mudd Hall on Oct. 9, she expanded upon two of her related research projects describing the analysis of genomic datasets.
(10/25/25 2:54am)
On Thursday, Oct. 9 the Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) hosted a Q&A with Christopher K. Haddock and Andrew Kolodny about their team’s recent publication: “Imagine the Possibilities Pain Coalition and Opioid Marketing to Veterans: Lessons for Military and Veterans Healthcare.” OIDA, which is co-created by Hopkins and University of California, San Francisco, won the Society of American Archivists Archival Innovation Award.
(10/23/25 10:37pm)
The Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) hosted its annual symposium on Thursday, Oct. 16. The symposium opened with remarks from Alex Szalay – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Big Data and Director of IDIES – on the rapid evolution of data science and its expanding applications. Over the past 25 years, many scientific breakthroughs have emerged from unique data sets, including the mapping of the entire human genome through the Human Genome Project and the imaging of the universe and celestial bodies via the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
(10/23/25 1:29am)
Nihar Shah, an accomplished artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, delivered a seminar at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) on October 10th titled “LLMs in Science, the good, the bad and the ugly.” The seminar purveyed the role of AI in scientific research and peer review.
(10/16/25 4:29am)
Thelma Escobar, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, presented at the Hopkins Department of Biology’s Seminar Series on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. She discussed the progress her lab has recently made regarding chromatin modifications in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and the adaptive immune system.
(10/09/25 5:00am)
On Oct. 4, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) hosted the 15th Annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, a commemoration that united science, ethics and remembrance under one name that transformed medicine.
(10/08/25 1:07am)
On Tuesday, Sept. 30, Professor Hey-Kyoung Lee from the Department of Neuroscience at Hopkins presented her research as the speaker of the Ru Chih Huang Department of Biology Colloquium Series.
(10/19/25 1:21am)
What’s striped, native to Southeast Asia and regrows spinal neurons in under 10 weeks?
(09/28/25 7:07pm)
The Department of Biology’s Fall 2025 Seminar Series opened with a packed house on Thursday, Sept. 11 as Simon Alberti, a professor in the Department of Cellular Biochemistry at the Technical University of Dresden, delivered a talk titled “Biomolecular condensates: molecular insights and implications for disease intervention.”
(09/17/25 1:24am)
How do brains turn environmental inputs into motor outputs?
(09/18/25 12:00am)
Erin Sutton, flight dynamics model validation lead for NASA’s Dragonfly mission, visited to the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics on Sept. 10 to share her work on the Dragonfly, a car-sized rotorcraft whose goal is to fly through the methane-rich atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The seminar highlighted the challenges of validating flight dynamics for Titan’s environment, a notoriously hazy, treacherous terrain, and how Sutton’s team continues to push the boundaries of aerospace engineering and planetary exploration.
(09/16/25 11:37pm)
The School of Public Health’s Wolman seminar series hosted Marta Hatzell, an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Hatzell gave a talk titled “Reactive Carbon Capture and Conversion: Pathways to Carbon-Neutral Fuels and Chemicals,” which highlighted the importance of carbon dioxide capture and its direct conversion into valuable materials. The process of reactive carbon capture and conversion (RCCC) cuts costs and requires less energy than traditional methods, which regenerate carbon dioxide from carbonate streams.
(04/15/25 8:06pm)
On Thursday April 1, the Department of Biology hosted Niels Ringstad, professor in the Department of Cell Biology at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Ringstad delivered a talk titled “Modulation of Behavior by Host-Microbe Interactions” for the department’s seminar series, highlighting recent findings from his lab about the powerful effects of microbes on the behavior of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans).
(03/25/25 4:00am)
On Friday Feb. 28, the Hopkins Political Union hosted a debate between the Johns Hopkins College Republicans and the Hopkins Democrats, during which both student groups discussed the Trump administration's actions regarding immigration and the formation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). This event was hosted in collaboration with Hopkins Votes and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins.
