Studying Small Bacterial Cities - Biofilms
Professor Carey Nadell and the members of his laboratory study the collaborative microbial communites called biofilms.
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Insights into origin and evolution of strange virus-like elements
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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Bats and Bugs Do Battle in the Tropics
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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Temperature fluctuations? What is on and what is off.
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 wins the New England Society Book Award
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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Oxidative Damage Leads to Errors in Meiotic Chromosome Segregation
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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Youjun Wu named Copenhaver Fellow
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 Biology Major Phi Beta Inductees and Sophmore Prize Winner!
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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"Beetle Mania" - Dartmouth Alumni Magazine features Prof. Matt Ayres
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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Bacterial Classification May be More Elusive than Previously Thought
Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva's work published in PNAS on the classification of microorganisms has revealed that classifying microorganisms is more complicated than previously thought.
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Recent Publications
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Advancing Ecosystem Science by Promoting Greater Use of Theory and Multiple Research Approaches in Graduate Education
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SUPERMAN prevents class B gene expression and promotes stem cell termination in the fourth whorl of Arabidopsis thaliana flowers
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Genomic insights into temperature-dependent transcriptional responses of Kosmotoga olearia, a deep-biosphere bacterium that can
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Evolutionary escalation: the bat-moth arms race
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