This is part of a series of Q&As highlighting Faculty 100 scholars and the research, creative activity and collaborations they are advancing at IU Bloomington. One of the Faculty 100 hires is Mengting Han, an assistant professor of biology who joined the Department of Biology August 2025. Han studies the spatial transcriptome — how RNA is organized within cells and how that organization affects cellular function.
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A grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health will fund research led by Adarsh Dharan, Assistant Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, aimed at better understanding a critical step when HIV enters the nucleus of a human cell.
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Kimberly Rosvall, Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has been named the recipient of this year’s William Brewster Memorial Award, one of ornithology’s highest honors, recognizing the most meritorious body of work on North American birds published in the past decade.
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Indiana University biologist Mengting Han has received a prestigious $2.38 million Avenir Award in Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Use from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The five-year award will support Han’s research into how the spatial regulation of RNA localization and translation in neurons contributes to opioid use disorder.
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Professor David Kehoe, a member of the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, has been selected for the Fulbright U.S. Senior Scholar Award to Spain in academic year 2026-2027. Dr. Kehoe will be joining the faculty at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, to assist in the development of their newly created Marine Biotechnology Program.
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Karlen Enid Correa Vélez, a postdoctoral research fellow in the van Kessel Lab in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) from the National Institutes of Health.
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New research from Indiana University has uncovered a previously unknown vulnerability in how bacteria build the whip-like tails they use to move. The researchers found that building these tails can put stress on the protective wall surrounding a bacterial cell, and uncovered systems bacteria use to keep that stress from becoming destructive.
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Kayla Simanek, a postdoctoral fellow in the van Kessel lab in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, received the prestigious Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship.
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New research from Indiana University microbiologist Cristina Landeta and undergraduate student Rebecca Collins shows that giant viruses carry previously unrecognized tools that may reshape how infected cells regulate redox balance and membrane composition.
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