Michael Russello named 2012-1013 Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology. The fellowship is awarded to an individual who will engage in scientific study and work in the Department of Organismic and Evolutonary Biology.
Research in the Extavour Lab finds that a gene that acts as "master regulator" of germ cell development originally evolved to play a role in the nervous system rather than in reproduction. Graduate student Ben Ewen-Campen was the first author of this study that shows that this gene arose much earlier in evolution than previously suspected....
President Barack Obama has appointed James J. McCarthy to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. McCarthy is recognized internationally for his fundamental contributions to oceanography and Arctic science. Full Story.
ArhatAbzhanov principal investigator in new study of Caribbean bullfinches in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that offers new insights into the development and adaptation of beak shape and shows the molecular signals that produce beak shapes show even more variation than is apparent on the surface. ...
Hopi Hoekstrareceives First Estela Medrano Award for excellence in aging research. The award honors the memory and work of Dr. Estela Medrano a professor at the Huffington Center on Aging at Baylor College of Medicine and an internationally recognized expert in the regulation of aging and cancer development of human melanocytes, who died tragically in August...
Martin Nowak's group latest research paper in Nature Medicine creates a mathematical model that helps to design new drug cocktails aimed at controlling HIV.