The Neukom Fellows program is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral program at Dartmouth that may provide another means of working with or being mentored by faculty in our department. Please see the position announcement at http://neukom.dartmouth.edu/programs/neukom_fellows_app.html
News & Events
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Ectomycorrhiza (ECM) fungi grow on the surfaces of plant roots and develop a symbiotic with the plants that host them. Corinne Vietorisz '19 is studying the role of the dominant tree species and soil type on ECM fungi. She is particularly interested on the impact of ash trees because of the expected die-off of ash trees from Emerald Ash Borer. She is working with Prof. Matt Ayres and EEES graduate student Ashley Lang on her studies.
To read Corinne's article about her work this...
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Professor Caitlin Hicks Pries' lab studies the terrestrial carbon cycle and the effects of a warming climate on that cycle. Organic material is the source of carbon in soils. As this material is decomposed by microbes, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. A warming climate can increase the activity of the soil-dwelling microbes...
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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, Prof. Schaller talks about growing up around scientists and how he became interested in molecular biology at a young age. In college, he cultivated his interest in molecular biology and near the end of his undergraduate studies, he decided to focus his work on plants.
Plants remain the focus of the work done in Prof. Schaller's research...
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Professor Carey Nadell's laboratory studies the interesting interactions of microbes and their environments within biofilms. Biofilms are collaborative communities made up of billions of microbes. These microbial communities may be found to play a beneficial roles such as in the gut where they help with digestion. They can also establish themselves in less desirable places where they cause dangerous infections. Prof. Nadell and his lab...
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Some microorganisms produce nanostructures that morphologically and genetically resemble viruses, but don’t behave like typical viruses. Oddly, these structures package random pieces of DNA of their microbial host and, as a result, do not appear to propagate by infecting microbes and making more copies of themselves. Since these elements can deliver the packaged DNA to other cells, they were dubbed gene transfer agents (GTAs). It is not clear whether GTAs represent atypical viruses,...
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Congratulations to Biology majors Dylan Cahil '18, Kennedy Jensen '18 and Nicholas Norwitz '18 on their induction into Dartmouth's Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa! Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa inductees must have one of the top twenty cummulative grade point averages after completing eight terms of study at Dartmouth.
Biology major, Anant Mishra '19 received the Phi Beta Kappa Sophmore Prize for holding one of the highest grade point averages in his class. Congratulations Anant!
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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. To learn more about their work, please see Joe Blumberg's article in Dartmouth News at this link: ...
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Every organism prefers a certain ambient temperature, but what happens when it experiences a change in temperature? Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva and her colleagues at the University of Alberta have examined how an oil-dwelling bacterium Kosmotoga olearia, the current "record holder" of the growth temperature range, responds to temperature fluctuations. In their paper in the Extremophiles journal, the researchers report that change in temperature affects about a quarter of this bacterium'...
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Prof. Matt Ayres is an internationally recognized expert on the effects of climate change on the impact and distribution insects. In the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine article, "Beetle Mania" he 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.
To read the full article, please click here...
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