Department News – Biology – Carleton College

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Raka Mitra presents at American Society of Plant Biologists with Carleton grads

5 August 2022

Associate professor of biology Raka Mitra gave a talk at the American Society of Plant Biologists meeting titled, “The Molecular Battle Between the Bacterial Wilt Pathogen and its Plant Hosts,” built upon…
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NSF awarded to Rika Anderson for hydrothermal vent food web research

1 August 2022

Rika Anderson, Associate Professor of Biology, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF #2205254) for “Collaborative Research: RUI: Microbes need frenemies: unveiling microbial relationships with protist and…
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Sarah Deel lab session and teaching materials published

1 July 2022

Senior lecturer Sarah Deel presented a lab she created at the Association for Biology Laboratory Education conference last year. Zia NoiseCat ’23 assisted during the three-hour online lab session. The lab and associated instructional…
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Mark McKone publishes a paper in American Naturalist

13 June 2022

The journal American Naturalist recently accepted a paper for publication by Mark McKone, Towsley Professor of Biology. The title is “Loss of avian intromittent organs as a sperm competition strategy:…
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Dan Hernández wins Carleton triathlon

6 June 2022

Biology chair Dan Hernández finished first in the annual Reading Day triathlon. After 750 yards of swimming, 17 miles of biking, and a 5k run, he says he was surprised…
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Stephan Zweifel, Matt Rand and two Carleton grads co-author article on Minnesota bullsnake

27 May 2022

In their continued quest to draw attention to the enigmatic Minnesota bullsnake, Professors of Biology Stephan Zweifel and Matt Rand have published an article co-authored with Avery Swearer ’18 and…
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Mark McKone and two Carleton Biology grads publish a paper on Arb prairies

23 August 2021

Mark McKone, Towsley Professor of Biology, and two Biology majors, Evelyn Williams (’05) and Jared Beck (’14), have recently published a paper in the Journal of Vegetation Science. The title…
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Mark McKone and Dan Hernández co-author paper in Restoration Ecology

6 July 2021

Mark McKone, Towsley Professor of Biology, and Dan Hernández, Professor and Chair of Biology, have recently published a paper in the journal Restoration Ecology titled Community-level assisted migration for climate-appropriate prairie…
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Dan Hernández co-authors paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

6 July 2021

Dan Hernández, Professor and Chair of Biology, co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Trait-based filtering mediates the effects of realistic biodiversity losses on ecosystem functioning. The…
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Rika Anderson Receives NSF CAREER Award

19 May 2021

Rika Anderson has received an NSF CAREER award for her work on “Temporal dynamics of microbial and viral function and adaptation in hydrothermal vents”. This funding will support Rika’s research program…
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