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Professor Eric Schaller is featured in the July/August 2018 American Society of Plant Biologists' News Luminaries Column. In the article he talks about his early interest in science, his career as a teacher and research scientist and his work as a writer of fiction.
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Professor Carey Nadell and the members of his laboratory study the collaborative microbial communites called biofilms.
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Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva’s recent publication investigates the mystery of why some microbes produce viruses that don’t behave like typical viruses.
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Professor Hannah ter Hofstede, Neukom Fellow Dr. Laurel Symes and biologist Dr. Sharon Martinson are interested in understanding the stratagies and trade-offs employed by insects that allow them to attract mates while trying to avoid notice by bat predators.
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Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva's recent publication examines what happens when Kosmotoga oearia, the record holder of the growth temperature range, experiences a change in temperature.
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Prof. Richard Holmes has been awarded the New England Society Book Award for his book Hubbard Brook: The Story of a Forest Ecosystem (Yale University Press, 2016).
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Prof. Sharon Bickel's lab has demonstrated that oxidative damage causes a premature loss of sister chromatid cohesion and an increase in chromosome segregation errors in Drosophila oocytes during meiosis.
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Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program Ph.D candidate, Youjun Wu has been selected to be a John H. Copenhaver, Jr. and William H. Thomas, MD 1952 Fellow.
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Kudos to the Biology majors who were inducted into Dartmouth's Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and to the Phi Beta Kappa Sophmore Prize winner!
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In the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine article, "Beetle Mania," Prof. Matt Ayres talks about his work on the southern pine beetle, the impact of invasive, non-native insects and being summoned to the World Bank to discuss climate change and invasive insect species.
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