Dr. Carla Atkinson just received news that her proposal “CAREER: Functional diversity and ecosystem function provisioning by a guild of macrofaunal consumers in riverine ecosystems” was funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology. Her work aims to merge the characterization of the functional traits of communities of freshwater mussels, the most globally imperiled faunal group, to critical ecosystem processes such as water filtration and biogeochemical cycling. Further, she plans to integrate the concepts of biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships […]
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Dr. Harris recognized as Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Congratulations to Dr. Phil Harris who was recognized by the College of Arts and Sciences as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow. Dr. Harris will be working with junior faculty across the college to assist with teaching strategies in large classroom environments. Dr. Harris will hold the title for three years.
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Diversity, Inclusion and Respect are core values of the Department of Biological Sciences
“At The University of Alabama our core principles include fostering a culture of inclusivity and respect for every member of our community, whether we are together in Tuscaloosa or engaging virtually throughout the world.” – President Stuart Bell Diversity, Inclusion and Respect are core values of the Department of Biological Sciences. We condemn the recent events that have led to the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, as well as the injustice and racial discrimination that exists in […]
Dr. Janna Fierst awarded NSF CAREER
The NSF Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, Program is the most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty at NSF. Recipients are recognized as being individuals with the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. With this award, Dr. Fierst and her team will develop new bioinformatic tools to detect horizontal gene transfer using nematode worms as a model system. As part of […]
Dr. Secor’s research featured by New York Times
Research on the digestive physiology of snake’s by Dr. Secor’s lab was featured in The New York Times. Read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/science/pythons-metabolism-animals-digestion.html
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Senior Harris Bolus publishes first-author review article on Drosophila models for neurodegenerative diseases
Graduating senior student Harris Bolus (member of the Chtarbanova Lab since spring 2018) is the first author of a collaborative review article in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences that discusses the modeling of neurodegenerative diseases and neuroregeneration in the common fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In the Chtarbanova lab, Harris’ work focused on studying the genetic mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration. Together with two other undergraduate students, Harris co-authored another research article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments on methods used to […]
Dr. Gui Becker awarded NSF Rules of Life grant to study wildlife disease
Dr. Gui Becker was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Rules of Life funding scheme for a project titled “RoL: The Scale of Resistance: Landscape to Microbiome-level Processes Regulating Acquired Disease Resistance.” Understanding how species cope with disease in an era of global change is of fundamental importance to the field of ecology and to the stability of wildlife populations. Anthropogenic deforestation is frequently associated with increases in wildlife disease. These patterns are expected to stem from both […]
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Dr. Laura Reed to receive President’s Faculty Research Award
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Reed who’s outstanding achievements in research will be recognized with a 2020 President’s Faculty Research Award in the mid-career scholars category! Read more about Dr. Reed’s research and achievements since joining the department here. Though originally scheduled for April 22, 2020, Faculty Research Day and the President’s Faculty Research Award Ceremony will be rescheduled to a later date.
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Drs. Atkinson and Hatoum-Aslan promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Drs. Carla Atkinson and Asma Hatoum-Aslan who were awarded tenure and promoted to Associate professor! Dr. Carla Atkinson’s research in the field of aquatic ecology is strongly oriented towards the advancement of both basic scientific understanding as well as better conservation prioritization of biodiversity and ecosystems. Dr. Atkinson’s research encompasses a broad set of long-standing questions in ecology such as the linkages between community structure and ecosystem function, food web structure and dynamics, landscape scale patterns dictating […]
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Dr. Carol Duffy supports hospital COVID-19 testing
Dr. Carol Duffy, a microbiologist and virologist, researches viruses in her lab. Making viral transport media-like solutions is a normal part of her research. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of this media, which is needed to preserve samples during transport to testing labs. Working from her lab, Dr. Duffy has created and delivered a batch of 800 viral transport media, toward a goal of 4,000 tubes for DCH Health System. Read an article about Dr. Duffy’s support of COVID-19 testing […]
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