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.
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[more]Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva's work on the classification of microorganisms has revealed that classifying microorganisms is more complicated than previously thought. Her paper, A null model For mcrobial diversification published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, shows that a simple birth-death cycle of cells may explain...
[more]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). Prof. Holmes and Dr. Gene E Likens co-authored this book, which highlights the remarkable and impactful long-term ecological research conducted at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire’s White Mountains over the last 50 years.” For more information about the award, please click...
[more]National Public Radio interviewed Dr. Laurel Symes, Dr. Sharon Martinson and Prof. Hannah ter Hofstede about their research on the sounds of the rain forest. The group is studing the complex ultrasonic communications of bats and their insect prey. The read or hear the full interview please visit the NPR website at the following link: http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/521452464/sound-matters-sex-...
[more]Undergraduate researcher, Aldo Arellano '17, spent last summer studing the ecology of Lake Mývatn in Iceland. Aldo was selected to be one of four researchers to go to Iceland under the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates program. The project in Iceland took an interdisciplinary approach to understanding midge flies and their influences on food webs. Aldo's work focused on the blue-green algae, Anabaena.
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[more]Research done in 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.
In women, the probability of miscarriage or Down Syndrome increases dramatically with age. Studies of maternal age effect indicate that errors in female meiosis contribute significantly to this...
[more]Three Biology majors from the Class of 2017 have been inducted into the national academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa. Biology majors Marielle Brady ’17, Hae-Lin Cho ’17 and Abiah Pritchard ’17 were among the twenty members of the Class of 2017 who were inducted this year. Congratulations to Marielle, Hae-Lin and Abiah!!
Photo by Joseph Meling '69
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 for her outstanding scholarship. Youjun is a student in Prof. Erik Griffin's laboratory. The laboratory studies cytoplasmic protein gradients that are involved in the patterning of early C. elegans embryos.
Youjun is first author on the Molecular Biology of the Cell research paper,...
[more]Dr. Laurel Symes, Neukom Fellow, is featured in the Nature article, Research Protocols: A forest of hypotheses. In her work on sensory perception and decision making, Dr. Symes uses a method called multiple-working-hypotheses. This...
[more]Prof. Lee Witters, Eugene W. Leonard 1921 Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Geisel School of Medicine; Professor of Biological Sciences, has received the Elizabeth Howland Hand-Otis Norton Pierce Award for a Faculty Member Who Is an Outstanding Teacher of Undergraduates. As a physician, researcher and professor, Prof. Witters has been teaching for forty-seven years. He sees himself "not as a teacher, but as a learner with students, looking through a window with them at the wonder of...
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