Department News News Archive

News archive

Tag: Science

POISED FOR ACTION [MANGO LAB]

Hui-Ting Hsu (l) and Susan Mango Talk to any teenager and they will tell you the many ways they want to be independent from their parents. However, the…

Read more

PROBING THE ORIGINS OF SYMBIOSIS [MURRAY LAB]

Andrew Murray (l) and Erik Hom We investigated the origins of symbiosis by ecologically engineering brewers yeast and a single cell alga to proliferate by cooperating with each…

Read more

MOVING LIKE A TODDLER [SCHIER LAB]

(l to r) Alex Schier, Andi Pauli, Megan Norris, Eivind Valen,  and Guo-Liang Chew According to the British embryologist Lewis Wolpert, “it is not birth, marriage, or death,…

Read more

NEW TOOLS LIGHT UP THE INTRICACIES OF THE BRAIN [LICHTMAN LAB]

Science NEWS & ANALYSIS Science 22 November 2013: 917-918 Download PDF View Jeff Lichtman's Faculty Profile

Read more

ROBUST CLOCKS IN GROWING BACTERIA [O’SHEA LAB]

(l to r) Sophie de Buyl, Shu-Wen Teng, Jeffrey R. Moffitt, and Shankar Mukherji with Nikhil Living organisms tightly coordinate their physiology with the day and night cycle.…

Read more

ONE GENE, MANY MUTATIONS, CONTRIBUTE TO MOUSE SURVIVAL [HOEKSTRA LAB]

In recent years, a growing number of studies have reported the identity of genes that contribute to phenotypic variation.  However, few have narrowed the causative effects down to…

Read more

MODULARITY OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS ENABLES MULTIFUNCTIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING [O’SHEA LAB]

Nan Hao (l) and Erin O'Shea Living organisms respond to external cues and initiate appropriate physiological responses through activation of transcription factors, which regulate expression of target genes.…

Read more

DYNEIN PUTS ITS BEST FOOT FORWARD [LESCHZINER LAB]

(L to R) Sirui Zou, Bret Redwine, Andres Leschziner, Rogelio Hernandez-Lopez, and Samara Reck-Peterson, front row Locksley Walking takes an enormous amount of coordination. As your leading foot…

Read more

BACTERIAL CIRCADIAN CLOCKS TIGHTLY LINKED TO METABOLISM

Michael J. Rust and Erin K. O'Shea Circadian clocks are biological oscillators that help organisms keep track of the time of the day and coordinate their behavior with…

Read more