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Nels Elde ’95 Named a MacArthur Fellow Outside link
7 October 2020Nels Elde, a class of ’95 biology alum and evolutionary geneticist was recently named as a MacArthur Fellow. His work focuses on investigating the molecular mechanisms and evolutionary processes driving host-pathogen interactions.
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Rika Anderson awarded Global Fellowship
5 October 2020Rika Anderson, Assistant Professor of Biology, was awarded a Global Fellowship from the University of St. Andrews, which enables scholars to work within the academic community at St. Andrews. She will…
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Raka Mitra publishes article in Molecular Plant Pathology
8 September 2020Associate Professor of Biology, along with colleagues at Universite de Toulouse, Universite de Paris, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, published a scientific article titled EffectorK, a comprehensive resource to mine for Ralstonia, Xanthomonas,…
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Jeff Snyder, Associate Professor of Educational Studies, and Debby Walser-Kuntz, Herman and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of Biology and the Natural Sciences, were awarded Project Pericles “Up to Us Voting…
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Raka Mitra, Associate Professor of Biology, collaborates on Molecular Plant Pathology paper Outside link
17 August 2020EffectorK, a comprehensive resource to mine for Ralstonia, Xanthomonas, and other published effector interactors in the Arabidopsis proteome.
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Assistant 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…
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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.