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UVA Recognizes Professional Expertise, Personal Kindness of Outstanding Faculty
All-University Teaching Awards: Jessamyn Manson, Assistant Professor of Biology, Arts & Sciences
Abstract: Weakly electric fish possess electrosensory neural systems that are dedicated to detect microsecond time differences between sensory signals. Many features of this timing system, such as electroreceptor encoding, time-locked responses, and time-comparator neural circuit, are shared by closely related as well as distantly related electric fishes.
Continue ReadingAbstract: Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) is a great tool for cell biologists to investigate molecular interactions in live specimens. FRET is a distance-dependent phenomenon which can detect molecular interactions at distances between 1-10 nm.
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Continue ReadingDiet can alter the cost of resistance to a natural parasite in Caenorhabditis elegans | Amanda Gibson
Continue ReadingThe Arabidopsis LHT1 Amino Acid Transporter Contributes to Pseudomonas simiae-Mediated Plant Growth Promotion by Modulating Bacterial Metabolism in the Rhizosphere
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Continue ReadingCome for the free snacks and drinks (initial social half hour from 5-5:30, talent show beginning at 5:30), stay for the talent and absurdity. Prizes were purchased this weekend from Goodwill and let me tell you, you want to be in the running for these things.
Continue ReadingProf. JC Cang was invited by the UVA premedical chapter of Phi Delta Epsilon to the "Pie a Professor" event on April 7. The week of April 2-8 is Children’s Hospitals Week, a philanthropy week for PhiDE to raise donations and awareness for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, and specifically benefit UVA Children’s Hospital.
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