Indiana University Bloomington welcomes Leslie Griffith, the Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University, for the 2025-26 Tracy M. Sonneborn Memorial Lecture Series. Her lecture will take place Dec. 2 at 3:30 in Biology Building 100A.
To tackle critical national security challenges, drive innovation and support U.S. global competitiveness, Indiana University has awarded eight IU research teams with the IU LAB National Security Biotechnology Challenge Grant. Among the eight recipients were Roger Innes, IU Distinguished Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, and Jay Lennon, professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Indiana University Bloomington invites everyone to experience the wonders of science at Science Fest 2025, taking place this Saturday, Nov. 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This annual family-friendly celebration of science offers hands-on, interactive activities designed to engage and inspire learners of all ages.
12 Indiana University Bloomington faculty members were featured in a recent IU Bloomington Today story about their selection for one of three Big Ten Academic Alliance leadership programs. Armin Moczek, professor and chair of the Department of Biology in the College of Arts + Sciences, is among five department chairs included this year who will be joining more than 60 department heads in the Departmental Executive Officer Program.
Indiana University scientists and the public joined forces during the 2024 Solar Eclipse to understand the effects of the total eclipse on wild bird behavior. Their results are published in the latest edition of Science.
Microbiology societies from five continents have launched the first global strategy to harness microbial science in tackling climate change, following a meeting in May in Washington, D.C. Indiana University biology professor Jay Lennon is the lead author of the strategy paper, co-published across six leading scientific journals.
Dr. Merchant’s talk, “Tales of many algae: from fundamental discovery to applications,” will take place Sept. 23 at 3:30 p.m. in the Biology Building, Room A100.
The Indiana University Department of Biology will host David Pride, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, for the 2025 James P. Holland Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 3:30 p.m. in Biology Building A100 and via Zoom. Join the webinar: iu.zoom.us/j/84610930474#success
Graduate students in Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of Biology are extending their impact beyond the lab and into the community.Josy Joseph, Anjaly Prasannajith and Siddhartha Yaddanapudi are helping connect IU research with the public through hands-on biology outreach. With guidance from Jean Lennon, director of biology outreach, and support from the outreach team, the students are delivering science experiences that engage learners of all ages.
A recent commentary article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) highlights research in Drosophila that reveals fundamental differences in circadian mechanisms between the sexes. The original article titled, “Circadian rhythms are more resilient to pacemaker neuron disruption in female Drosophila,” was published in PLOS Biology.
Excitement is in the air – and soon, so might be an unforgettable scent. Wally, the resident Amorphophallus titanum (corpse flower) at the Indiana University Bloomington Biology Building Greenhouse, may be preparing for another rare and spectacular bloom. You can watch Wally grow – and possibly bloom – live via the Wallycam livestream.
“Imagine that we could return half of the Midwest to prairie. We could increase the planet’s ability to capture carbon, restore our insect populations and restore our ecosystems to a better balance,” said Roger Innes, Distinguished Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University.
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.
During the Biology Graduate Recognition Ceremony on May 2, the department celebrated its most recent graduates. Watch the video recording of the event here.
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.
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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