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Graduate Student Rachana Bhave (Cox Lab) has been awarded the Explorer's Club - Mamont Scholar Grant. This award supports students pursuing Graduate and Postgraduate research in field-based sciences. Rachana was awarded $5000 to carry out field work and genotyping to examine copulation rates and mating dynamics of brown anole lizards in Florida.
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Jennifer McDaniels, a member of the Güler Malaria Lab, has been awarded the All-University Graduate Teaching Award in recognition of her dedication and outstanding achievement. The honor carries a financial award of $500. Jennifer recently completed her PhD studies and will be awarded her degree in May. Congratulations, Jennifer!
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Ashley Hirt, a third-year student double-majoring in biology and statistics in the College of Arts & Sciences, is one of two recipients of the 2020 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Scholarship. Ashley works in the lab of Chris Deppmann, Associate Professor of Biology, where research focuses on cell signaling and its role in nervous system development.
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On top of Salt Pond Mountain, Campanula pollen is vibrant purple. In the New River valley below, Campanula pollen is faint tan. Why is pollen purple on top of the mountain and tan at the bottom?
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In today's issue of UVAToday, Jessamyn Manson discusses the challenges and rewards of teaching a large laboratory course, BIOL 2200, in the online learning environment.
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Just like animals and humans, plants are constantly challenged by microbes. In fact, plants live in the soil surrounded by microbes and cannot move to a safer place when needed. However, they do not get sick very often and, unlike us, they do not produce lymphocytes or antibodies to fight the infection. So, how do plants stay healthy?
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Former Biology grad student Aaron Reedy has been featured in today's edition of UVAToday. Aaron has developed a one-of-a-kind web app called “DataClassroom” working out of Catalyst – the "newly launched startup accelerator at UVA’s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, a center at the Darden School of Business". "DataClassroom" provides powerful digital data tools which allow K
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Biology graduate student Omar Guessoum (Ariel Gomez lab) was awarded the Mike Peach Young Investigator Award for his research and presentation at the Angiotensin Gordon Conference in Tuscany, Italy earlier this month. Omar's talk, entitled "Epigenetic Remodeling, not Proliferation, Mediates Renin Cell Plasticity", earned him the award which is given to the trainee with the best presentation at
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Trudging through heat, rain, and snow in pursuit of fruit flies resulted in a recent publication for researchers of the Bergland Lab. Appearing in Ecology and Evolution, their multi-seasonal study revealed that the freeze tolerance of flies following a cold hardening treatment increases as outdoor temperatures decrease.
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Dr. Ray Keller has been honored as the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for Developmental Biology.
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