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Dong Lab Collaboration Brings Big Results
October 09, 2020
“Salicylic acid (SA) is a plant hormone that is critical for resistance to pathogens.” So begins a pivotal new study by Xinnian Dong’s lab...
Masa Onishi Finds a Surprise in Cell Division Study
September 30, 2020
Professor Masayuki Onishi has published “Cleavage-furrow formation without F-actin in Chlamydomonas” (PNAS Aug. 4, 2020. 117 (31...
News Shorts!
September 29, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Gustavo Silva! Gustavo's lab has been awarded a 5-year NIH R35 MIRA grant to study the roles of ubiquitin in...
Raul Zavaliev leads team to reveal enzymatic function of NPR1
September 11, 2020
The journal Cell has published a new study by Dr. Raul Zavaliev and colleagues in Xinnian Dong’s group. Formation of NPR1...
It’s Not Easy Being Green
September 02, 2020
Take it from Carlos Taboada, postdoc in the Johnson Lab. He and his collaborators have published a deep dive into frogs’ green coloration...
BioGrad Alex Davis Illuminates the Midnight Zone
August 31, 2020
Davis, with colleagues in the Johnsen Lab and the Smithsonian, trawled Monterey Bay and the Gulf of Mexico for fish living a mile deep,...
The Oaks Rule, says Paul Manos
August 14, 2020
How did the oaks come to rule North American forests? As champions of diversification and hybridization the oaks both became essential...
Sherwood Lab Publishes on Basement Membranes
July 30, 2020
With such a prosaic name, you’d think basement membranes were no big deal-a stable substrate for cellular activity. But the Sherwood lab...
Alex Davis and Sonke Johnson on the Hatchetfish
July 20, 2020
Biograd Alex Davis and Sonke Johnson et al. have published “Evidence That Eye-Facing Photophores Serve as a Reference for...
Volkan Lab Publishes in Science Advances
June 15, 2020
Bio Grad Songhui Zhao, Neurobiology grad Bryson Deanhardt (co-first authors), and Professor Pelin Volkan have published significant...
How a Master Teacher Transitions to Teaching Online
May 21, 2020
Like many Duke faculty Sherryl Broverman was forced to convert her class “AIDS and Other Emerging Diseases” from a large lecture addressing...
Lauren Smith and Steve Haase Publish Major Finding on Malaria
May 15, 2020
Biograd Lauren Smith and Associate Professor Steve Haase have published a new paper in Science, "An Intrinsic Oscillator Drives the...
Congratulations Class of 2020!
May 11, 2020
The Faculty and Staff of the Department of Biology offer their heartiest congratulations to the Class of 2020. One hundred sixty-four...
Nijhout Sand Table Makes Its Own Art!
May 01, 2020
Everybody gets a little stir-crazy in lockdown, and Duke faculty are no exception. Professor Fred Nijhout used his enforced isolation to...
Jim Clark Elected to National Academy of Sciences
April 30, 2020
Jim Clark, Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy and Biology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy...
Sheila Patek Named a Bass Fellow
April 27, 2020
Congratulations to new Bass Fellow Sheila Patek! Sheila was named the Mrs. Alexander Heymeyer Professor of Biology on April 25. The Bass...
Laura Naslund (Class of 2019) Publishes Honors Thesis
April 07, 2020
Biomajor and 2019 Horn Prize winner Laura Naslund has published her honors thesis work in Environmental Science and Technology. ...
Interview with Sherryl Broverman on the Aaron Keck Show
April 01, 2020
Professor of the Practice Sherryl Broverman was interviewed by Aaron Keck for her expertise in pandemics and Global Health (April 1, 2020...
New Agreement with Leica Enhances Light Microscopy at Duke
March 10, 2020
A new collaboration between Duke University and Leica Microsystems, Inc., has created the Leica Microsystems Center of Excellence at the...
Gustavo Silva Named an Inspiring Black Scientist
February 06, 2020
Gustavo Monteiro Silva has been named one of 100 inspiring black scientists in the Crosstalk Blog of Cell Press. A. J. Hinton (University...
BioMajor Peishu Li Publishes on Panda Anatomy
January 24, 2020
The Journal of Anatomy has published a paper by graduating senior Peishu Li and Kathleen Smith, "Comparative skeletal anatomy of neonatal...
Benfey Lab Publishes in Nature
January 08, 2020
The Benfey Lab has presented an important new finding in a recent issue of Nature, RGF1 controls root meristem size through ROS...
"Making a Lichen Together"
January 03, 2020
The Joint Genome Institute in the Department of Energy featured a news article on a recent paper by Daniele Armaleo et al. in BMC Genomics...
Baby Yoda Inspires Speculation; Noor and Spana Oblige
December 13, 2019
The latest episode of the Star Wars saga, Disney+’s The Mandalorian, has introduced a brand-new character with no backstory: Baby...
Biomajor Scores Trip Through the Clouds
November 27, 2019
Biology major Joy Duer was definitely intrigued when she heard that she could win a ride in an F-15 fighter if she helped personnel ant...