Keeping you updated on what’s happening in the Department of Biology.
Professor Nancy S. Wexler from Columbia University and the Hereditary Disease Foundation, accepted her award and presented a lecture, “Mendel, Muller, Morgan, Mom, and me: an ever expanding voyage of discovery” during a ceremony on April 25, 2016.
Irene Garcia Newton is seeking answers to the dramatic decline in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) population by looking at their gut bacteria (microbiome). She and her lab also explore how host genetics, behavior, and development interact to form the microbiome.
Doctoral student Jessica Hite has teamed with local Sassafras Audubon Society (SAS) and IU colleagues to provide breeding habitat for Chimney Swifts (Chaetura pelagica), small gray birds whose playful-appearing flight patterns have earned them the nickname “dolphins of the sky.”
Within the past two years, we have lost five cherished faculty members. They had a tremendous impact on science and on our students. They were each unique and valued colleagues, and we miss their contributions and their character.
IU Biology alumna Dr. Heather Bleakley is a researcher fascinated by interacting phenotypes. She uses two systems—guppy antipredator behavior and cannibalism in isopods—to explore how interacting phenotypes may evolve.
The continued productivity of our faculty is sampled through the following highlights.
Alumnus Dr. Larry Blatt gives over $4.46 million to fund an array of new and ongoing endowments.
Undergraduate garners Goldwater Scholarship, graduate students receive NSF DDIGs.
Kathy Wyss received a 2015 IU Staff Merit Award for her dedicated service as IU Biology development officer.
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