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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...
Lichens Make Sunscreen! says Former Lutzoni Postdoc
September 03, 2015
Ester Gaya, formerly a postdoc in the Lutzoni Lab and now a Research Leader at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has published some of the...
Cari Ficken Wins Best Student Presentation Award at ESA
August 26, 2015
Grad Student Cari Ficken (Wright Lab) received the New Phytologist Best Student Presentation Award at the Ecological Society of America's...
Laurie Stevison Wins John Maynard Smith Prize 2014
August 19, 2015
Laurie Stevison, alumna of the Noor Lab, was awarded the John Maynard Smith Prize 2014 at the recent meeting of the European Society for...
Ko-Hsuan Chen Receives MSA Graduate Fellowship
August 12, 2015
Graduate student Ko-Hsuan Chen (Lutzoni Lab) has received a Graduate Fellowship from the Mycological Society of America. Only two of these...
‘Caveman Instincts’ May Favor Baritone Politicians
August 10, 2015
When political candidates give a speech or debate an opponent, it’s not just what they say that matters -- it’s also how they say it. A new...
Starvation Effects Handed Down for Generations
August 06, 2015
Starvation early in life can alter an organism for generations to come, according to a new study in roundworms. The effects are what Duke...
Plant Light Sensors Came From Ancient Algae
July 28, 2015
The light-sensing molecules that tell plants whether to germinate, when to flower and which direction to grow were inherited millions of...
Michael Barnes Now a Certified Crop Advisor
July 22, 2015
Greenhouse Supervisor Michael Barnes has been granted certification as a Crop Advisor from the North Carolina CCA Board. The certification...
Sherryl Broverman Receives William E. Bennett Award
July 09, 2015
Sherryl Broverman has been honored with the William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science. The Award is...
BioGrad Patrick Green Shows How Shrimp Punch
June 25, 2015
Patrick Green (Patek Lab) presented research on territorial mantis shrimp at the June 2015 meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in...
Island Rodents Take On Nightmarish Proportions
June 22, 2015
Researchers have analyzed size data for rodents worldwide to distinguish the truly massive mice and giant gerbils from the regular-sized...
Dual Internal Clocks Keep Plant Defenses on Schedule
June 22, 2015
Time management isn’t just important for busy people -- it’s critical for plants, too. A Duke University study shows how two biological...
Model Could Help Counteract Poisoning from Popular Painkiller
June 22, 2015
New research could help reverse deadly side effects caused by excessive doses of the drug acetaminophen, the major ingredient in Tylenol...
Patek Lab Wins Department of Defense Funding
June 22, 2015
The Patek Lab has won funding through the Department of Defense program "Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative." This highly-...
Schmid Lab Featured in NSF Blog
June 22, 2015
Amy Schmid's lab recently published a study of oxidative stress in Archaea in PLoS Genetics, "A Regulatory Hierarchy Controls the Dynamic...
Magwene Lab Unveils Genomes of Yeast Strains
June 22, 2015
The Magwene Lab, in collaboration with John McCusker's Lab (Molecular Genetics and Microbiology) has published the genomes of 93 different...
Biology Professors Take on Duke Leadership Roles
June 22, 2015
In the 2015-2016 academic year, Prof. Philip Benfey will chair the provost's advisory committee on Appointments Promotion and Tenure (APT)...
Study Reveals How Eastern U.S. Forests Came to Be
May 20, 2015
Plant hunters traveling between North America and Asia in the 1800s noticed a bizarre pattern: collections they brought back from China and...
Duke Biologists Win Mercer Award
June 22, 2015
Prof. Emily Bernhardt led a team of current and former Duke ecologists in writing a paper which has now received the Mercer Award from the...
Brooks Teaching Award Goes to Eric Spana
June 22, 2015
Congratulations to Eric Spana, who has received the David and Janet Vaughn Brooks Award for Teaching in the Natural Sciences. The award...
Duke Inducts New Members into Phi Beta Kappa
May 08, 2015
The nation’s oldest academic honor society inducted 166 Duke University juniors, seniors and alumni in Reynolds Theater on Thursday, May...