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Honors and Summer Research Open House
The deadline to apply to the honors program and/or the summer research program is February 9th. Information and applications can be found here. There will be an open house and information session for those students interested in doing a thesis as well as students considering… Continue reading »
Faculty Publications
Pre-Registration Faculty Advising
Registration for Spring semester begins October 30 and runs through November 6. Click to see biology faculty advising hours. Continue reading »
Assistant Professor Damian Turner in American Journal of Physiology
Yocum GT, Turner DL, Danielsson J., Barajas MB, Zhang Y, Xu D, Harrison NL, Homanic GE, Farber DL, and Emala CW. 2017. GABAA receptor α4- subunit knockout enhances lung inflammation and airway reactivity in a murine asthma model. American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 313:L406-L415. Continue reading »
Assistant Professor Ron Bassar publishes in Copeia
Local Adaptation in Trinidadian Guppies Alters Stream Ecosystem Structure at Landscape Scales despite High Environmental Variability. Troy N. Simon, Ronald D. Bassar, Andrew J. Binderup, Alex S. Flecker, Mary C. Freeman, James F. Gilliam, Michael C. Marshall, Steven A. Thomas, Joseph Travis, David N. Reznick, and Catherine… Continue reading »
Students in Professor Carter’s lab publish in Journal of Neuroscience
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 »
Assistant Professor Ron Bassar published paper in In Press
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 »
Professor Manuel Morales published in PLOS One
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 »
Swoap lab goes rafting
Crab Apple Whitewater River Rafting Continue reading »
Two Tenure-Track Professors to Start this Fall
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 »
Professor Chen Publishes Three Papers
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 »
A New Species of Firefly?!?!?
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 »
Registration Advising Hours 2017
Registration Advising Hours for Biology Faculty Continue reading »
Professor Swoap Publishes in Journal of Comparative Physiology with students Ethan Borre ’15 and Maria Vicent ’17
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 »
Students in Lebestky Lab Publish Paper
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 »
Tim Lebestky published with his students in G3
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 »
Thesis information
Here you can find information on the labs taking thesis students. Deadline to apply is February 10th!!! Continue reading »
Erica Chang ’18 and Katie Swoap ’17 won honorable mention in the best undergraduate poster competition at the 100th Western Society of Naturalists meeting
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 »
Professor Tim Lebestky published in G3
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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