Peter Scott, a graduate student in the Rissler lab, has been awarded a Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for his dissertation “Species limits, hybrid zones, and systematics of the North American turtle genus Sternotherus”
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A team of researchers that included graduate student Bryan Martinez and Drs. Guy and Kim Caldwell have shown that the Hsp 104 chaperone protein from yeast can be engineered to refold a variety of misfolded proteins, and mitigates some of the neurodegenerative effects of protein misfolding in a C. elegans model of Parkinson’s Disease. The work appeared in the journal Cell.
Dr. Stephen Secor is part of a multi-investigator team that recently published the annotated genome sequence of the Burmese python Python molurus bivittatus.
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Students in Biology classes taught by Drs. Rosianna Gray and Kim Lackey contributed over 2500 toys to the Daughters of Isis for their annual holiday drive.
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Three Biological Sciences graduate students have advanced to the finals of the Three Minute Thesis competition. Julia Stevens placed 3rd in heat 1, Suja Rajan placed 1st in heat 2, and Rami Ajjuri placed 3rd in heat 3. They will compete again in the final round of 15, on Wednesday, Nov 20th at 6:00 PM in the Russell Lecture Hall.
A team of researchers that includes faculty members Guy and Kim Caldwell and former UA graduate student Michelle Thompson has identified a compound that ameliorates the neuronal deterioration that causes Parkinson’s Disease. Local news coverage is here and here.
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Graduate student Rami Ajjuri (O’Donnell) has been named trainee representative to the Genetics Society of America Public Policy Committee for 2014–2015. Congratulations Rami!
BSC 409 students plant gardens at UA Arboretum Day on Sunday 10/13/2013.
Graduate student Ben Henderson was awarded best graduate student poster at the annual Teratology Society Meeting in June 2013.
Faculty, students and staff entertained campus visitors with animals and biological curiosities during Homecoming celebration on the Quad, 5 October 2013.
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