Anne Pringle's lab has been selected by the The Joint Genome Institute of the Department of Energy to coordinate the sequencing the genome of Amanita theirsii, a cellulose degrading fungus in an ectomycorrhizal genus.
PhD student, Matt Hegreness's (Dan Hartl Lab) paper in Nature Reviews Microbiologysystematically maps synergistic and antagonistic interactions between drugs and the evolution of antibiotic resistance. ...
Graduate student Dino Martins (Naomi Pierce Lab) received the 2009 Whitley Award for his work related to the conservation of insects and sustainable agriculture in Kenya. Video of Dino's project.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chris Organ's (Scott Edwards Lab) phylogenetic analysis of proteins in 80-million-year-old duck-billed hadrosaur fossil bolsters earlier T. rex findings about the bird-dinosaur clade. Science.
HarvardOEBProf. Stephanie Pierce & Julia Molnar, NY Inst. of Tech, reconstruct tetrapod forelimbs transition as they move water-to-land with surprising results! @MCZpaleo@MCZHarvardt.co/8RqNuRYBQc
___SDB___Congratulations to Mansi Srivastava @Harvard on receiving the 2021 SDB Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award for her work developing the acoel worm, Hofstenia miamia as a model to study whole-body regeneration and uncovering its gene regulatory network. t.co/7mjVNgKKmpt.co/0OHUUaAChs