Dr. E. O. Wilson is an esteemed alumnus of the University of Alabama Department of Biological Sciences. He was a born naturalist and a pioneer in the field of evolutionary biology. Sadly, Dr. Wilson passed away on December 26th (read his obituary in the New York Times and learn more about his remarkable career here), but his work will continue to influence the biological sciences indefinitely. He will be missed not just by those who have read his many papers […]

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Arts & Sciences Dean’s Postdoc Pool Job Summary: Postdoctoral Research Associate positions available to persons with degrees and research interests in the biological sciences, with the goal of transitioning successful candidates into tenure-track positions at the University of Alabama’s College of Arts & Sciences. Additional Department Summary: The College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Alabama and the Department of Biological Sciences seeks applications for the Dean’s Postdoctoral Research Associate positions.  Successful candidates will hold terminal degrees and […]

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In addition to being a world expert on marine algae, Dr. Juan Lopez-Bautista is a talented artist who presented his Master of Fine Arts exhibition entitled Border Stories. Dr. Lopez-Bautista’s art includes mixed media works collaged with images related to people migrating to the US-Mexican border. The artworks, painted with acrylic washes, inks, dry pigments, and acrylic transfers on synthetic paper and panels, depict migrants, and the objects that represent their presence, immersed in an abstract landscape as in a […]

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Congratulations to Dr. Laura Reed for being awarded the 2021 Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award! This award recognizes a singular, exceptional or timely work of research, product, program or published material that is innovative, creative, useful or captures the imagination. Dr. Reed was chosen for this award based on her leadership of the Genomics Education Partnership, a collaboration of more than 180 institutions throughout the U.S. that engages biology students in real research projects that enable them to learn advanced techniques […]

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Dr. Hoadley has been awarded two Alabama Center of Excellence grants to study climate change impacts on benthic filter feeders and phytoplankton communities in the northern Gulf of Mexico. He will lead the first grant entitled  “Understanding the Interactive Effects of Predation and Ocean Acidification on Economically Important Oyster Variants in the Northern Gulf of Mexico” with collaborators Dr. Dustin Kemp (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and Dr. Lee Smee (Dauphin Island Sea Lab). The second grant “Using Optical and […]

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Neuroscience Cluster Hire The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, invites applications for three (3) tenure-track, 9-month, Assistant Professor positions in Neurobiology. Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. and have post-doctoral research experience. We are particularly interested in researchers addressing questions related to 1) Neurophysiology; 2) Neuroimmunology; and 3) Neurogenetics. The successful applicants will join a growing core of faculty working in the areas of neurodegenerative disease modeling, neurogenetics and neuroinflammation, blood-brain barrier modeling, neurobehavior and […]

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Tri-Beta is the Biological Honors Society for undergraduates. The next meeting is this Thursday evening. The topic of the meeting is course registration and they will be holding a townhall of sorts for students to ask questions about the biology/chemistry/elective courses they are considering taking or for older students to share their experiences in the classes that they have taken in the past. We feel that this is a great opportunity, in addition to traditional advising, that we want to […]

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The inaugural NEON Ambassador Program is bringing together 20 research scientists, educators, and industry professionals to work together to help shape NEON community engagement. The Ambassador Program is designed to help guide and encourage members of the scientific community to work with NEON; to highlight opportunities for cross-disciplinary research; to empower and connect researchers & educators to use NEON data; and to increase inclusion and diversity of the scientific community. The ultimate goal of the program is to help showcase […]

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Dr. Jennifer Howeth was featured in a recent Crimson White article on climate change and invasive species. We are thrilled to see these important topics being addressed by the campus newspaper!

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Paramount to predicting the future of biodiversity is knowing when and how living systems are resilient to (i.e., can recover from) anthropogenic disturbances. The focus of this Biology Integration Institute is to understand resilience to a key global threat: emerging infectious diseases. The team will develop a new framework to measure resilience across multiple scales, stressors, and diverse biological systems, and apply it to a case study involving a fungal disease linked to global amphibian declines. Building on past research […]

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