Congratulations to BSC students recognized at Honors Day

Graduate Student Awards: The Inge and Ilouise Hill Research Fellowship – Justin Ray The Joab Langston Thomas Scholarship – Tingwei Guo Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student in Biological Sciences Fall 2017 – Elizabeth Johnson Fall 2017 – Austin Beagles Spring 2017 – Neil Gilbert Spring 2017 – John Nourse Chair’s Scholarship for Outstanding Contribution for Research & Service by a Graduate Student in Biological Sciences – Cheng-Yu Li Chair’s Scholarship for Outstanding Contribution for Teaching by a Graduate Student […]

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Congratulations to BSC undergraduate researchers honored at URCA

At this year’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (URCA) Conference, DBS undergraduate student Joshua Goble (Kocot lab) was awarded first place in the Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, & Water category for his poster on “The Biodiversity of Deep-Sea Icelandic Aplacophoran Molluscs.” DBS undergraduate student Abigail Rankin (Atkinson lab) was awarded first place in the College of Arts and Sciences – Natural Sciences division for her poster on “Nutrient Limitations and the Effects of Mussel Abundance on Primary Productivity in […]

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Dauphin Island Sea Lab BSC graduate students’ research recognized

Derek Tollette (Mortazavi lab) got first place prize for the student poster presentation at the Benthic Ecology Society Meeting that happened from March 27-30, 2018 in Texas (http://www.bemsociety.org/bem-2018.html) Taylor Ledford (Mortazavi lab) got the third place prize for the student poster presentation at the Graduate Student Symposium that happened from March 2-4, 2018 at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL).  The symposium is held every year and is hosted by one of the three consortia in the northern Gulf of […]

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Asma Hatoum-Aslan awarded an NSF CAREER award

UA Department of Biological Sciences professor Dr. Asma Hatoum-Aslan has received an NSF CAREER Award to study the molecular events that transpire in the battle between bacteria and their viruses (called phages).  This work could lead to novel strategies to combat antibiotic-resistant infections using phages and the bacterial immune systems that defend against them. Read more about her work in UA News.

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Assistant Professor Positions in Ecohydrology, Macroevolutionary Comparative and Quantitative Biology, and Cellular & Molecular Physiology

The Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama invites applications for three full-time (9- month) tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor in Ecohydrology, Macroevolutionary Comparative and Quantitative Biology, and Cellular & Molecular Physiology to begin August 2018. For the Ecohydrology position, the successful applicant will establish an extramurally funded and internationally recognized research program centered on the interactions and feedbacks between ecological and hydrological processes through any component of the water cycle. Applicants should employ […]

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Assistant teaching professor positions available in Biological Sciences at UA

The Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama seeks to hire three assistant teaching professor positions for Fall 2018 start dates. These are non-tenure track renewable contract (NTRC) faculty, each with three-year contracts, subject to annual reviews.   Position 1: Assistant Teaching Professor Job # 0810897 Primary teaching duties will entail large-enrollment undergraduate courses, such as Introductory Biology, Microbiology, and / or non-majors Human Anatomy and Physiology. A course in the successful candidate’s own specialization may be considered, […]

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Which came first, the ctenophore or the sponge? New paper co-authored by Dr. Kocot helps settle the debate.

The phylum Ctenophora (comb jellies) consists of gelatinous, planktonic marine animals. Despite their somewhat unassuming nature, a fierce debate has been raging in the scientific literature about comb jellies as a number of genome-scale studies have suggested that ctenophores, and not the morphological simple sponges, are the sister group to all other animals. A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution co-authored by Dr. Kevin Kocot helps shed light on this question with new data spanning the diversity of […]

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Caldwell Lab Helps Find New Path to Parkinson’s Treatment

UA Department of Biological Sciences professors Dr. Guy Caldwell and Dr. Kim Caldwel and doctoral student Hanna Kim are co-authors on a new study that provides a molecular explanation for why it is the dopamine neurons, specifically, die in Parkinson’s patients. This work, which was published in the top journal in its field, is an important step forward and highlights a new potential path for drug discovery. Read more about this work in UA News and read the original research […]

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Research by O’Donnell lab sheds light on how neurotransmitters modulate our need for personal space.

An team of researchers including Department of Biological Science’s chair Dr. Janis O’Donnell and recently graduated  students Rami Ajjuri and Matthew Lollar has published a new paper in Biology Letters showing how varying levels of a chemical found in the brain of fruit flies can affect their responses to social interactions. Specifically, the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is also used in humans, contributes to a fly’s response to others in a social group. See popular media articles about this work in CBC Radio […]

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