Jon Shaw's Bio 139S Plant Diversity in the Field and Paul Manos's Bio 141L Plant Communities course in mid-November, 2011
Duke Biology Box 90338 Durham, NC 27708 Phone: 919-660-7372 Fax: 919-660-7293
Seminars
Friday, April 25, 2014, 11:45am,
Evolutionary Anthropology Talk Series Seminar
013 Bio Sci Bldg
Diane Doran-Sheehy (Stony Brook University)
"The role of diet in social dynamics, communication and life history: a case study of wild western gorillas"
Friday, April 25, 2014, 4:00pm,
Duke Plant Biology Forum Seminar
144 Bio Sci Room change!
Xiaoyu Zheng (Dong Lab) (Duke Biology)
"The Transcriptional Regulation of the Central Plant Defense Signal, Salicylic Acid"
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Dan Skelly gets NRSA Postdoc Fellowship
The title says it all. The National Institutes of Health have awarded an NRSA postdoctoral fellowship to Dan Skelly, a postdoc in the Magwene Lab. The title of Dan's project is "Functional variation in a conserved pathway influencing cellular differentiation." more
Dave Sherwood Lab Publishes in JCB
Laura Kelley and Elliott Hagedorn have published a paper in the March 31 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. Their study reveals how the actin regulatory protein cofilin coordinates dynamic F-actin turnover and membrane delivery to make functional invadopodia--specialized subcellular "drill bits" used by invasive cells to penetrate other tissues. more
Biograds Win NSF Pre-Docs!
Biology graduate students Aspen Reese (Wright lab), Peter Tonner (Schmid lab), and Ariana Eily (Haase lab) have been awarded NSF pre-doctoral fellowships. more