Prof. Eric Schaller and New York Times best-selling author, Jeff VanderMeer were the featured speakers a MIT Communications Forum on April 6, 2015.
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We are pleased to announce that the honors students in the biological sciences will present their research findings in seminars that begin on May 12th. All are welcome to attend. Please click on the photograph below to link to the full schedule.
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Researchers in Professor Becky Irwin's lab have found that some compounds in floral nector reduce parasite loads in bees sixty to eighty percent. These findings were highlighted in the February 26, 2015 issue of Nature.
[more]Kudos to Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva and Milo Johnson '13 on their recent publication! Caroline E. Whidden, Katrina G. DeZeeuw, Jackie K. Zorz, Andrew P. Joy,David A. Barnett, Milo S. Johnson, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and Amanda M.Cockshutt: "Quantitative and Functional Characterization of theHyper-Conserved Protein of Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus",PLoS ONE, 2014, 9: e109327.
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Prof. Zhaxybayeva shows that the deep biosphere is teeming with microbes that have been exchanging genetic material for eons.
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