Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolyn Elya (de Bivort Lab) awarded the 2018 HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship for Early Career Scientists! Elya was chosen for her work studying how microbes hijack insect nervous systems.
PhD student, Izzy Baker (Girguis Lab) is on the R/V Falkor off the coast of Oregon (where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean), exploring methane seeps in the Cascadia Margin. Specifically, Izzy is exploring the microbial communities that live in and around these seeps in order to better understand the role microbes may...
Congratulations to Mansi Srivastava, recipient of the National Institutes of Health, Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators for her proposal, "Using a new regenerative model system to elucidate mechanisms for stem cell regulation."
The MIRA award is a unique funding opportunity that supports research that increases understanding of biological processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
Congratulations to Andrew Knoll, awarded the International Prize for Biology of Japan Society. Created in 1985 to honor the 60-year reign of Emperor Shōwa of Japan and his support of biology, the annual award is considered one of the most prestigious honors a natural scientist can receive.
The Committee on the International Prize for Biology (chaired by Dr. Hiroo Imura, Acting Vice...
As a graduate student in Naomi Pierce's lab, Leonora Bittleston (PhD '17) traveled to Nepenthes Camp in the Maliau Basin, an elevated conservation area in Malaysian Borneo with a rich, isolated rainforest ecosystem, to collect pitcher plants. The carnivorous pitcher plants trap, drown and digest their animal prey to supplement nutrient-poor soils. Bittleston collected samples of the liquid inside the pitchers to compare to pitcher plants in Massachusetts and along the Gulf Coast. Though unrelated, both plant families had similar adaptations for trapping prey and are a perfect...
National Geographic's Open Explorer is following undergraduate Integrative Biology (IB) concentrator, Liz Roux (Gonzalo Giribet, advisor) as she travels southern Florida collecting flatworms (Bdelloura candida) living on Atlantic horseshoe crabs in order to research phylogeography and symbiosis around the Florida peninsula. Read more about NatGeo's Open Explorer Following IB Concentrator, Liz Roux
Congratulations to Min Ya (Kramer Lab) awarded the Katherine Esau Award for outstanding paper in developmental and structural botany at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America. At the meeting, Min also received the Triarch "Botanical Images" Student Travel Award for her digital image Floral Morphogenesis. Read more about Min Ya Awarded Botanical Society of America Awards
Congratulations to Sofia Prado-Irwin (Edwards Lab) and Jacob Suissa (Friedman Lab) awarded the Society of Systematic Biologists 2018 Graduate Student Research Award!
A new study published in Science by Professor Emeritus Alfred Crompton and his faculty assistant, Catherine Musinsky, suggests suckling was part of the original mammalian package. The ability to suckle milk is a defining characteristic of mammals. Yet, one branch of mammals, egg-laying monotremes, which include the platypus and echidna, do not. Monotreme babies instead lap or slurp milk from patches on the mother'...