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Duke Senior Named Gates-Cambridge Scholar
February 17, 2016
Duke senior Catherine Newman is among 35 U.S. recipients selected for the prestigious Gates-Cambridge Scholarship, which covers a student’s...
Congratulations to Mark Rausher for winning the Sewall Wright award!
February 04, 2016
Professor Mark Rausher has received the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists. The award was established in 1991 and...
Same Switches Program Taste and Smell in Fruit Flies
February 03, 2016
A new study sheds light on how fruit flies get their keen sense of smell. Duke University biologist Pelin Volkan and colleagues have...
Fred Nijhout wins Kowalevsky Medal!
February 01, 2016
Prof. Fred Nijhout has won the 2015 International A.O. Kowalevsky Medal, which is awarded annually by the St. Petersburg Society of...
New Way to Detect Human-Animal Diseases Tested in Lemurs
January 27, 2016
Advances in genetic sequencing are uncovering emerging diseases in wildlife that other diagnostic tests can’t detect. In a study led by...
Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring goes to Sonke Johnsen
January 27, 2016
The Dean of the Graduate School will give the 2016 Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring to Prof. Sonke Johnsen. Congratulations to...
Dave McClay wins SDB Lifetime Achievement Award!
January 25, 2016
The Society for Developmental Biology has awarded its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award to Professor David McClay. The award is given...
New publication from Bhandawat Lab
January 19, 2016
Seung-hye Jeong is the lead author on a new paper from the Bhandawat Lab, "Odor-identity Dependent Motor Programs Underlie Behavioral...
Three Duke Biologists Among Most Highly-Cited Researchers
January 14, 2016
Congratulations to Philip Benfey, Xinnian Dong and Tai-Ping Sun for making it to the Thomson-Reuters List of Highly-Cited Researchers for...
Exciting New Research from Sherwood Lab!
January 13, 2016
David Sherwood and David Matus (former postdoc in the Sherwood Lab, now at SUNY-Stony Brook) have published exciting new findings abouta...
We Mourn the Passing of Professor Diana Nemergut
January 05, 2016
The Biology Department mourns the death of Professor Diana Nemergut on December 31, 2015. We offer our condolences to her husband, Alan...
Broverman's work featured by Huffington Post
December 08, 2015
Huffington Post contributor Sonia Thompson highlighted Sherryl Broverman's work with WISER (Women's Institute of Secondary Education and...
Is Mantis Shrimp Research a Waste of Money? How 'Wastebook' Misses the Big Picture
December 15, 2015
Camouflaged Cuttlefish Employ Electrical Stealth
December 15, 2015
When you’re as soft and delicious as a cuttlefish, evading predators is a full-time job. Not only do these squid-like creatures employ...
Duke Flags Lowered: Biomechanics Pioneer Steven Vogel Dies
December 14, 2015
Duke biologist Steven Vogel, whose eclectic research interests ranged from flying insects and fluttering leaves to swimming squid and...
With deep sadness
November 25, 2015
The Biology Department regrets to announce the passing of Emeritus Professor Steven Vogel on November 24, 2015. Teacher, researcher,...
Sherwood Lab reveals important feature of invading cells
November 03, 2015
Dave Sherwood's lab has a new paper in Developmental Cell (October 26, 2015), "Invasive Cell Fate Requires G1 Cell-Cycle Arrest and Histone...
Julie Reynolds Leads $3 million NSF Writing-to-Learn Project
October 02, 2015
Julie Reynolds is the lead investigator on a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation awarded to Duke, the University of...
‘Tree of Life’ for 2.3 Million Species Released
September 21, 2015
A first draft of the “tree of life” for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes -- from platypuses to...
Lutzoni Lab Wins $2.5 Million Grant from NSF
September 17, 2015
The Lutzoni lab and their collaborators have been awarded a $2.5 million GoLife grant from the National Science Foundation to fill the...
Lutzoni Receives NSF Grant for Fungal Genealogy
September 21, 2015
Biology professor Francois Lutzoni and Co-PI Jolanta Miadlikowska have been awarded $735,285 as part of a $2.5 million collaborative GoLife...