News & Events

38th Annual Richard D. Katz Biology Undergraduate Research Symposium
May 4, 2022 • 1-3pm
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May Newsletter
Greetings from the Biology GSPA! In this monthly newsletter, we're celebrating the many accomplishments from around the Biology Department, announcing May events, and advertising Fall semester courses open to all.
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The Bergland Lab is recruiting volunteers for the 2022 fly collection season!
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Graduate Teaching Awards have just been announced:
Phoebe Cook will receive an All-University Graduate Teaching Award, and Yingnan Gao has been selected to receive the Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award in STEM
Congratulations Phoebe and Yingnan!!
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We have just learned that Mandy Gibson, Assistant Professor of Biology, has been awarded the 2022 Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award!
This award recognizes an Assistant Professor who is an outstanding teacher and has demonstrated a commitment to student success.
Congratulations Mandy!!
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Greetings from the Biology GSPA! In this monthly newsletter, we're featuring the wide array of accomplishments from around the Biology Department, announcing April events, and advertising the JEDI Reading Group's next book.
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Sitting across a desk from one another on the fourth floor of the Physical Life Sciences Budling, University of Virginia biology professors Ali Güler and Iggy Provencio admitted their differences.
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Scientists, including two University of Virginia researchers, have developed a powerful, inclusive new tool for genomic research that boosts efforts to develop more precise treatments for many diseases by leveraging a better representation of the genetic diversity of people around the world.
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UVA earned two of only 64 slots in this year’s “STAT Madness,” which is like the scientific version of the NCAA basketball tournament. Voting, which began Tuesday, is open to the public.
UVA’s contenders come from Dr. Maria Luisa S. Sequeira-Lopez and her collaborator Dr. Ariel Gomez, and from Christine and Bernard Thisse, both Ph.D.s.
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The University’s iiGEM team is working on a project entitled “Manifold” to build a platform technology that makes the process of metabolic engineering more efficient and would revolutionize biosynthesis.
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