Robin Walls Kimmerer—mother, scientist, decorated professor, and Citizen Potawatomi Nation member—will present "Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants" at Oct. 5th lecture.
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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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Earlier this summer, ERI researchers and citizen scientists at the IURTP Kent Farm Research Station netted and banded their 1,000th bird—a White-eyed Vireo—as part of an international scientific collaboration on bird population trends, the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) program.
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Artwork by Jake McKinlay, associate professor of biology, was selected as the cover image of the July 2020 issue of the American Society for Microbiology's Applied and Environmental Microbiology journal.
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Instead of taking a “flu-like approach” to creating a new vaccine, Professor John Patton and his team are leveraging the lab’s ongoing work exploring rotavirus to develop a vaccine that will protect children against COVID-19.
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