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Microbiology major Andrew Quest named Goldwater Scholar.
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Organisms deal with unpredictable developmental environments thanks to environmental-responsive genomes. A landmark study of genome-wide gene expression in beetles by Postdoctoral Fellow Sofía Casasa and colleagues illuminates how these genomes evolve.
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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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Assistant Professor Kimberly Rosvall has been selected to receive IU Bloomington’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for 2020.
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Professor Justin Kumar and his lab will investigate the role that inductive signals play in specifying the fate of the compound eye of Drosophila melanogaster.
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