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Rika Anderson and Alief Moulana’19 Publish Paper in mSystems
20 April 2020Assistant Professor of Biology, Rika Anderson, and Alief Moulana ’19 published a paper called “Selection is a significant driver of gene gain and loss in the pangenome of the bacterial genus Sulfurovum in geographically distinct deep-sea hydrothermal vents” in mSystems.
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Rika Anderson selected as 2020 Scialog Fellow
20 April 2020Assistant Professor of Biology, was selected as a 2020 Scialog Fellow for a new Scialog Initiative on Signatures of Life in the Universe. Scialog Fellows are promising early career scientists selected to work in interdisciplinary teams to tackle big-picture problems. Signatures of Life in the Universe will bring together scientists from across astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology to generate projects to gain fundamental understanding of habitability of planets, detection of life beyond Earth, and life in extreme environments on Earth or in Earth’s distant past.
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Raka Mitra Speaks at Plant Animal Genome Conference
23 January 2020Raka Mitra, Associate Professor of Biology, gave a talk this January at the Plant Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, California. The talk was entitled “The molecular battle between the bacterial wilt pathogen and its plant hosts.”
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Congratulations to Professor Debby Walser-Kuntz
23 September 2019The Board of Trustees recently appointed Debby R. Walser-Kuntz, as the endowed chair for the Herman and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of Biology and the Natural Sciences. -
Hernandez to work with Doris Duke Conservation Scholars
3 September 2019Dan Hernandez, Associate Professor of Biology, will serve as a Faculty Instructor with the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at UC Santa Cruz, led by Erika Zavaleta. The two-year conservation leadership program exposes early-career college students to the field of environmental conservation through field research, leadership, and professional training. As contracted program staff, Hernández works closely with the students to help design and conduct research projects in a variety of California’s spectacular landscapes.
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Dan Hernández Awarded DNR Project
19 August 2019Dan Hernández, Associate Professor of Biology, has been awarded a contract with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to participate in an adaptive management project to study the control…
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Rou-Jia Sung Receives NSF Funding for BiochemAR App
19 April 2019Assistant Professor of Biology Rou-Jia Sung has received NSF funding for a project to develop an augmented reality based app for iOS and Android devices as a tool for teaching macromolecular structure and function.
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Rou-Jia Sung and Andrew Wilson are highlighted in The Scientist
10 January 2019Rou-Jia Sung, assistant professor of biology, has been working in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Wilson at Academic Technologies to develop BiochemAR, an Augmented Reality app containing different 3D visualizations with accompanying classroom learning materials for that can be broadly used in a variety of courses.
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Rose Kantor ’10: “The microbial world within water reuse”
9 October 2018Rose Kantor ’10, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California – Berkeley presents a biology seminar talk: “The microbial world within water reuse.”
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Kait Libbey ’19 featured in Carleton Now
20 September 2018Senior biology major Kait Libbey was interviewed about her summer job working as a junior ranger educator at a San Francisco an environmental justice youth center funded by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
