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BIOLOGY IN THE NEWS |
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UVA Undergraduate Students Try to Build an Original Life Form |
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Creating an original organism required no bolt of lightning for a team of University of Virginia students. But it did take buckets of ice, vials of bacteria and a FedEx delivery.
Nestled in the package were bits of DNA, whipped up in California and ordered online. When they arrived at a lab crowded with flasks, pipettes and aging equipment held together with pieces of red tape, the students plunged vials of E. coli bacteria into the ice-filled buckets. Then they heated the vials up and cooled them down again. During that process, tiny bacterial cells cracked open just enough to
to let the DNA inside, and a new life form was born: an army of tiny read more>> |
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4th-year undergrads Dan Tarjan, left, and Thaddeus Webb |
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NEWS FEED_________________________________________________________________ |
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Deforest Mellon and his colleagues Joseph Humphrey (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) and Matt Reidenbach (Environmental Sciences) have been awarded a $575,500 grant from NSF for three years to study "Olfactory processing of flow and odor structure within a turbulent plume" |
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Doug Taylor and graduate student Dan Sloan were recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology. Their article on phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial substitution rate variation in the angiosperm tribe Sileneae can be viewed here>> |
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Kristine Grayson, a gradudate student in the Wilbur Lab, won the 2009 Award for Best Student Presentation at the recent Ecological Society of America meeting. Congratulations, Kristine! |
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Dr. Lei Li was recently awarded a $498,000.000+ grant from NSF to study the role of microRNAs in heterosis. |
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FALL 2009 EVENTS___________________________________________________________ |
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Fri, Nov 20: |
Seminar: "Polydnaviruses as symbionts and immunosuppressive pathogens of insects" Michael Strand, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor of Entomology, University of Georgia (Host: GSPA) Refreshments served at 11:45am |
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Mon, Nov 23: |
Public Dissertation Defense: "The Role of Spatial and Stochastic Effects in Host-Pathogen Systems" Vijay Panjeti, graduate student in the Antonovics La, Department of Biology, University of Virginia. |
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Fri, Dec 04: |
Seminar: "Predatory Prokaryotes: From basic research to application" Daniel Kadouri, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey University (Host: Martin Wu) Refreshments served at 11:45am |
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