Professor Tuli Mukhopadhyay has been named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor that recognizes her outstanding contributions to the progress of science and research.
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IU researchers find that long-term exposure to artificial light at night causes intensification of dormant malaria infections in birds.
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To date, eleven faculty members from the Department of Biology have been presented with IU's Bicentennial Medal in recognition of distinguished service to Indiana University.
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Jen Lau and Jay Lennon are part of an interdisciplinary team of biologists, sociologists, and a historian that will investigate how human adaptation interacts with ecological adaptation in ways that might affect resilience to climate change.
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Study by colleagues Daniel Becker and Ellen Ketterson of IU and Richard Hall of UGA is among the first to investigate how relapsing infections influence the seasonal timing of infection risk in migrants; new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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GEMS team will address the fundamental biological question: "How do symbioses unify biology, from molecule to ecosystem?"by examining the interaction between clover and honey bees as a model.
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