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Williams, H., Levin, I.I., Norris, D.R., Newman, A.E.M., Wheelwright, N.T. (2013) Three decades of cultural evolution in Savannah sparrow songs. Animal Behaviour.  85:213-223. Continue reading »

Insights into bilaterian evolution from three spiralian genomes. Simakov O, Marletaz F, Cho SJ, Edsinger-Gonzales E, Havlak P, Hellsten U, Kuo DH, Larsson T, Lv J, Arendt D, Savage R, Osoegawa K, de Jong P,… Continue reading »

Full Article:  Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? (continued from page 1) But we still don’t understand how it ages in reverse. There are several reasons for our ignorance, all of them maddeningly unsatisfying. There are, to begin with, very few specialists in the world committed… Continue reading »

“Partial complementarity of the mimetic yellow bar phenotype in Heliconius butterflies”… Continue reading »

Dispensable, redundant, complementary and cooperative roles of dopamine, octopamine and serotonin in Drosophila melanogaster… Continue reading »

Luana Maroja just published a paper in EVOLUTION: EDUCATION AND OUTREACH, titled “Where Do I Come From? Using Student’s Mitochondrial DNA to Teach About Phylogeny, Molecular Clocks, and Population Genetics”.  She uses this in Biology 305: Evolution. Continue reading »

Lois Banta and Derek Dean recent had their genomics curriculum development project published as the cover story for Cell Biology Education-Life Sciences Education. Here is the full link to the article: http://www.lifescied.org/cgi/content/full/11/3/203?etoc Lois has a second article in the same journal… Continue reading »

Ben Iliff ’10 just published a paper with Steve Swoap in the American Journal of Physiology.  This manuscript was from his thesis work, for which he shared the David Bruce award for top undergraduate poster at the Experimental Biology meetings in 2010. Continue reading »

Congratulations to Uttara Partap ’13 for publishing her work in two journals!!! Uttara Partap, Williams College, Biology major and Honors student, collaborated with David R Hill, MD, Professor of Medical Sciences, Director of Global Public Health, Frank H. Netter MD, School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, on two recently published… Continue reading »

Anna Szymanski ’12 has been awarded the Frederick Eugene Stratton 1872 Fellowship in Biology Graduate fellowship in Biology, awarded each year to a senior for further study at an institution belonging to the American Association of Universities. The fellowship is not renewable and is not to be used in any… Continue reading »

Uttara Partap ’13 was selected as one of the American Physiological Society Undergraduate research fellows for 2012.   In addition to a 10-week summer stipend, fellows receive a travel grant to allow them to attend and present their research at the APS annual meeting, which is a broad-based scientific meeting.  There… Continue reading »

Day Instructor Time Location Monday Altschuler Lynch Maroja MacIntire Ting 8:00 – 9:00 pm 1:00 – 3:00 2:00 – 4:30 2:00 – 4:00 10:00 – noon… Continue reading »

Lisa Chu ’10 just published a paper with Steve Swoap in the Journal of Thermal Biology.  This manuscript was from her thesis work, for which she shared the David Bruce award for top undergraduate poster at the Experimental Biology meetings in 2010.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306456511001665… Continue reading »

Professor Steven Zottoli has published a paper with two student co-authors.   “Axon cap morphology of the sea robin (prionotus carolinus) mauthner cell is correlated with the presence of ‘signature’ field potentials and a C-type startle response.” Zottoli SJ, Wong TW, Agostini MA, Meyers JR.  J. Comp. Neurol., 2011… Continue reading »

Biology Department Registration Advising Hours, April 25-28, 2011. Continue reading »

Professor Manuel Morales recently published “Model selection analysis of temporal variation in benefit for an ant-tended treehopper” in Ecology, Vol. 92, No. 3: 709-719. Continue reading »

When: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Where: Weston Hall, Williams College Join admissions representatives from the following schools to learn about graduate programs at Harvard University. Harvard School of Public Health Harvard Kennedy School Harvard Divinity School Harvard Graduate School of Arts and… Continue reading »

Congratulations to Lois Banta who has published an article “An Agrobacterium VirB10 Mutation Conferring a Type IV Secretion Gating Defect” with two former Williams students, Meg Giuliano ’05 and Megan Bailey ’08. Continue reading »

Two of Professor Maroja’s students were awarded grants to travel to the Evolution 2011 meetings.  Zach McKenzie and Joy Jing were awarded the Undergraduate Diversity Grant to participate in the Evolution 2011 meeting!  This is a NSF funded award that provides travel funds and mentoring to 25 undergraduate students (open… Continue reading »