Professor Carey Nadell and the members of his laboratory study the collaborative microbial communites called biofilms.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Summit Highlights Campus as a Living Lab
Researchers spotlight projects on climate scholarship.
Science Cafe Panelist
Professor Eric Schaller was a Science Cafe-Concord panelist on the topic of “The Past, Present, and Future of Science Fiction.”
Prof. Kathy Cottingham named editor-in-chief in the journal Ecology
Professor Kathy Cottingham has been named editor-in-chief of the Ecological Society of America's journal, Ecology.