Award recipient David Reich, Harvard Medical School, will discuss his work and challenge previous assumptions about human evolution on March 6, 2020.
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IU Bicentennial "Women who built IU" series celebrates botany faculty member Barbara Shalucha.
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Read Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Hughes Hub interview with Craig Pikaard, "Get to Know Craig Pikaard"—discussing his research, hobbies, and grandkids.
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Interestingly, not everyone is equally vulnerable to the virus, and whether you get sick or not may depend on your blood type. Professor Emerita Pat Foster explains.
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With increased knowledge about how quorum sensing and proteins control pathogenesis in bacteria, Assistant Professor Julia van Kessel's lab hopes to develop resistance-proof drugs.
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Postdoc Eric Smith (Newton Lab) uses computational biological methods to investigate how microbiomes support and influence bee function.
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