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Departmental News
- Check out some of our recent publications with IU student authors, and journal cover articles. Or visit our news archives, or our list of 2008 research honors and awards.
- Greg Demas and Emilia Martins appear in the CCN.com headline article "Robotic squirrel helps decode animal behavior" [article]
- Mike Wade has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Thom Kaufman has been elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [press release]
- A symposium honoring Gerald Gastony (emeritus) will be held during the Botany 2008 meetings in Vancouver, entitled "From Gels to Genomics: The Evolving Landscape of Pteridology. A Celebration of Gerald Gastony's Contributions to Fern Evolutionary Biology."
- EEB graduate student Thomas Platt (co-advised by Jim Bever and Clay Fuqua) has been awarded the McCormick Science Grant for 2008. Two grants are awarded each year among all the science disciplines at IUB. [Details]
- EEB graduate students, Chris Muir (advisor: Leone Moyle), Casey McGrath (advisor: Mike Lynch) and Kristal Cain (advisor: Ellen Ketterson), have been awarded 2008 National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships.
- Postdocs Patrick Curtis (Brun lab) and Xiang Gao (Lynch lab) were awarded NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowships.
- Ke Hu has been awarded a Beckman Young Investigator Award from the Beckman Foundation.
- Gregory Velicer and colleague in Current Biology: Isolation by distance in the spore-forming soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus [article summary]
- Pat Foster has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Election to the Academy recognizes excellence, originality, and creativity in the microbiological sciences.
- Graduate student Qian Niu and Joel Ybe are breaking down Huntington's disease one protein at a time, in the Journal of Molecular Biology, as announced on the NIH site [ IU press release | JoMB abstract]
- IU Biologists Thom Kaufman and Matthew Hahn are among the many coauthors in Nature's special issue on Drosophila biology, genomics and evolution [ IU press release | Nature focus ]
- Armin Moczek has been awarded $540,000 by the National Science Foundation to continue his research into the evolutionary developmental genetics of horned beetles [IU press release]
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