Indiana University Department of Biology

Check out some of our recent publications with IU student authors, and journal cover articles. Or visit our news archives, or our list of 2009 research honors and awards.
Greg Velicer and colleague on the cover of Current Biology: Social conflict in centimeter- and global-scale populations of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. [abstract]
Andy Zelhof has been awarded an American Cancer Society Research Scholar award.
David Rollo is participating in the Clean Energy Ecology Forum held by the US Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. [IU press release]
Leonie Moyle and colleague in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: Reproductive isolation grows on trees. [abstract]
Weilong Hao (Palmer postdoc) and Jeff Palmer in PNAS: Fine-scale mergers of chloroplast and mitochondrial genes create functional, transcompartmentally chimeric mitochondrial genes. [abstract]
Tai Min and colleague in PNAS: Upregulation of three Drosophila homologs of human chromosome 21 genes alters synaptic function: Implications for Down syndrome. [abstract]
Roger Hangarter and Sam Orr won an Emmy for their production of the PBS special "Natural Heritage of Indiana - Life in the Water"
Brandon Weasner and Justin Kumar on the cover of Genesis: The non-conserved C-terminal segments of Sine Oculis Homeobox (Six) proteins confer functional specificity. [abstract]