Save the date! This year’s Honors & Summer Research Info session will be on Wednesday, January 18 (time and location TBD). Biology Majors can learn about honors research opportunities and/or summer research directly from faculty who will be taking students. The deadline to apply to the honors program… Continue reading »
Dr. Rebecca Dutch from the University of Kentucky will join us to speak about “Human metapneumovirus: Lessons from the virus you haven’t heard of” Friday, November 18 @ 1:10pm in Thompson Biology 112 Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a non-segmented, negative strand RNA virus that is a major cause of respiratory… Continue reading »
Please click here to watch a recording of the Pre-Registration Information session held Monday, October 31. https://williams.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=32b0d907-34d3-4a59-ad12-af3f0109d010… Continue reading »
Dr. LaDeau’s research explores how environmental conditions shape populations of disease-carrying animals such as mosquitoes and ticks, to reduce human exposure to Zika, West Nile virus, Chikungunya, Lyme disease, and other infections. Coming from Millbrook, New York, she will speak at 1:10pm Friday, November 4th in TBL 112 about “Legacies… Continue reading »
The Biology Department welcomes Professor Pam Templer, PhD to speak about “Imagining Future Forests Through Climate Change Experiments” Friday, September 30 @ 1:10pm in Thompson Biology 112 (masks are required) Carbon dioxide uptake by terrestrial ecosystems around the globe offsets approximately one third of emissions of this greenhouse gas from… Continue reading »
To maintain energy homeostasis, orexigenic (appetite-inducing) and anorexigenic (appetite suppressing) brain systems functionally interact to regulate food intake. Within the hypothalamus, neurons that express agouti-related protein (AgRP) sense orexigenic factors and orchestrate an increase in food-seeking behavior. Continue reading »
Bassar, R. D., J. Travis, and T. Coulson. In press. Predicting coexistence in species with continuous ontogenetic niche shifts and competitive asymmetry. Ecology. doi: 10.1002/ecy.1969. Continue reading »
Morales, M.A. and A.G. Zink. 2017. Mechanisms of aggregation in an ant-tended treehopper: Attraction to mutualists is balanced by conspecific competition. Continue reading »
Crab Apple Whitewater River Rafting Continue reading »
This year the biology department welcomes two new faculty members, Ronald Bassar and David Loehlin. Ron starts in the Fall 2017 semester as Assistant Professor. Ron is an evolutionary ecologist and comes to us following post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford with Tim Coulson studying the ecological and… Continue reading »
Luo R, Chen PW, Wagenbach M, Jian X, Jenkins L, Wordeman L, Randazzo PA. J Biol Chem (2016). Direct functional interaction of the kinesin-13 family member kinesin-like protein 2A (Kif2A) and Arf GAP with GTP-binding protein-like, ankyrin repeats and PH domains 1 (AGAP1). doi:10.1074/jbc.A116.732479 Vitali T, Girald-Berlingeri S,… Continue reading »
Abstract Fireflies in the genus Photinus are well regarded for their luminescent nocturnal courtship displays. Here we report on a new firefly species, Photinus interdius, which is remarkable for its fully diurnal and luminescent courtship protocol. Continue reading »
Vicent, M.A., Borre, E.D. & Swoap, S.J. J Comp Physiol B (2017). Central activation of the A1 adenosine receptor in fed mice recapitulates only some of the attributes of daily torpo. doi:10.1007/s00360-017-1084-7… Continue reading »
Kim, S.*, Tellez, K.*, Buchan, G.* and T. Lebestky. 2016. Fly stampede 2.0: A next generation optomotor assay for walking behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Frontiers in Neuroscience, doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2016.00148… Continue reading »
Jiang,Y.*, Pitmon, E.*, Berry, J.*, Wolf, F.W., McKenzie, Z.* and T.J. Lebestky. 2016. A genetic screen to assess dopamine receptor (DopR1) dependent sleep regulation in Drosophila. Genes, Genomics Genetics: 6: 4217-4226. Continue reading »
Here you can find information on the labs taking thesis students. Deadline to apply is February 10th!!! Continue reading »
Erica Chang and Katie Swoap won honorable mention in the best undergraduate poster competition at the 100th Western Society of Naturalists meeting in Monterey, CA, November 10-13, 2016. Their poster was titled “Fluctuating temperatures and thermal stress in mussels: time-dependent responses in respiration, gene expression and growth. ” by Erica… Continue reading »
A Genetic Screen to Assess Dopamine Receptor (DopR1) Dependent Sleep Regulation in Drosophila Yiqin Jiang1, Elise Pitmon1, Jack Berry1, Fred W. Wolf2, Zach McKenzie1 and Tim J. Lebestky1 Abstract Sleep is an essential behavioral state of rest that is regulated by homeostatic drives to ensure a balance of… Continue reading »
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