Indiana University has named six faculty members – including Biology Professor Jay Lennon – as Distinguished Professors, the most prestigious appointment offered to honor faculty whose outstanding scholarship, artistic or literary distinction, or other achievements have won significant recognition by peers.
A new study led by Orie Shafer, Indiana University biology professor and a Linda and Jack Gill Chair at the Gill Institute for Neuroscience, with IU postdoctoral fellow Abhilash Lakshman, Ph.D., and IU undergraduate student Reed Evans, is reshaping how scientists study sleep by revealing that fruit flies experience multiple distinct sleep states rather than a unitary state.
Assistant professor of biology Cristina Landeta and assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences Dana Urbanski — both in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington — were awarded $25,000 each from the Lawrence Blatt Endowed Fund for Translational Research.
Landeta is developing new antibacterial therapies for disarming disease-causing bacteria. Her team is creating stronger inhibitors that block the natural resistance to antibiotics, presenting an alternative approach to address the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.
Department of Biology Professor Clay Fuqua and his research team have been funded for a four-year project via an R01 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. This project focuses on the role of enigmatic metabolites called pterins that are common to all living systems.
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