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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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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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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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Sound Matters: Sex And Death In The Rain Forest. National Public Radio interviewed Prof. Hannah ter Hofstede, Dr. Laurel Symes and Dr. Sharon Martinson about their research on the sounds of the rain forest.
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Undergraduate researcher, Aldo Arellano '17, spent last summer studing the ecology of Lake Mývatn in Iceland. The research project in Iceland took an interdisciplinary approach to understanding midge flies and their influences on food webs.
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Biology Majors Marielle Brady ’17, Hae-Lin Cho ’17 and Abiah Pritchard ’17 have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
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Dr. Laurel Symes, Neukom Fellow, is featured in the Nature article, Research Protocols: A forest of hypotheses.
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Dr. Dustin Rubenstein '99 returned to Dartmouth to report on his work about how organisms adapt to environmental change. While at Dartmouth, Dr. Rubenstein was enrolled in the Biology FSP and was an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Prof. Richard Holmes.
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