Indiana University Bloomington assistant biology professor Cris Ledón-Rettig and graduate student Dante Nesta recently published a paper in PNAS entitled, “Cryptic genetic variation in brain gene expression precedes the evolution of cannibalism in spadefoot toad tadpoles.”
Six faculty members in our department have been awarded for their instructional skills and dedication to their students.
For many students, a high school internship is a chance to shadow professionals and explore career paths. But for recent Bloomington South graduate London Mitchell, the opportunity became something much more – an opportunity that not only led to a published scientific paper but also transformed her career aspirations. Guiding her through it all was Erica Nadolski, a Ph.D. candidate in biology in Professor and Department Chair Armin Moczek’s lab in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington.
During the Biology Graduate Recognition Ceremony on May 2, the department celebrated its most recent graduates. Watch the video recording of the event here.
Indiana University Bloomington welcomes Stephen Giovannoni, University Distinguished Professor of Microbiology at Oregon State University, for the 2024-25 Pace Lecture. His lecture, “Microbial Life in Low-Nutrient Ocean Deserts,” is April 16 at 3:30 in Biology Building 100A.
Karen Bush, professor of practice emerita of biology, and Sid Shaw, professor of biology, have been named 2024 AAAS Fellows.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, has named seven Indiana University faculty members to its 2024 fellows’ class, a lifetime honor within the scientific community.
A team of researchers at Indiana University Bloomington, led by biology professor John Patton in collaboration with GIVAX Inc., has developed a groundbreaking rotavirus-norovirus combination vaccine to combat norovirus, a highly contagious virus responsible for about 100,000 childhood deaths globally each year.
IU biologist Heather Hundley has been awarded a five-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences to decipher the molecular mechanisms of a family of proteins that modify and regulate RNA. Abnormal function of these proteins occurs in more than 35 human diseases, including neurological disorders, metabolic diseases and cancer.
The Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington will host Robert Reed, professor of biology at Cornell University and curator of Lepidoptera at the university’s entomology collection, for the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior (EEB) Seminar Series on Feb. 28. Reed will present “Seasonal Wing Pattern Plasticity in Butterflies” in the Biology Building, A100.
The Joan Wood Lecture Series will feature Dr. Anne Moscona on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 3:30 p.m. in the Biology Building, Room A100. She will present a lecture titled, “Activities of a Paramyxovirus Fusion Complex on the Viral Surface.” Mosscona will discuss how proteins on the surface of a virus attach to a host cell to start an infection, a complicated and regulated “activity” similar to a choreographed dance.
Indiana University Bloomington graduate student Shefali Shefali has received the prestigious American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship supporting pre-doctoral and clinical health professional students pursuing careers in science, medicine, and related fields. The fellowship aims to improve global cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and brain health.
A recent study led by Indiana University Bloomington graduate student Alexandra Margets and Distinguished Professor of Biology Roger Innes identifies and characterizes a key protein involved in soybean cyst nematode infection.
Indiana University Bloomington biology professor and department chair Armin Moczek and Bloomington High School South science teacher Kirstin Milks have collaborated for nearly 15 years to support STEM education in the Bloomington community.
A new study by researchers at Indiana University Bloomington investigates why velvet ant stings are among the most excruciating in the animal kingdom, and offers a fascinating glimpse into the evolutionary arms race between predators and prey—while providing insights that may inform pain-related medical research.
Amorphophallus konjac, popularly known as “devil’s tongue,” received lots of attention recently in the IU Biology Building Greenhouse, where two of the plants bloomed simultaneously.
Biologists at Indiana University Bloomington have shown that the surfaces of plant leaves are coated with a diverse array of RNA molecules
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