Life Sciences

Joseph Ecker to present Chemerda Lectures in Science on April 24 and 25, 2017
Chemerda Ecker 2017
Booker elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Squire Booker
Penn State University and Salus University Establish Strategic Alliance through Memorandum of Understanding
Study reveals 10,000 years of genetic continuity in northwest North America
Researchers are analyzing DNA from ancient individuals found in southeast Alaska, coastal British Columbia, Washington state and Montana. A new genetic analysis of some of these human remains finds that many of today’s indigenous peoples living in the same regions are descendants of ancient individuals dating to at least 10,300 years ago. Credit: Julie McMahon
Paul Babitzke elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
Paul Babitzke
Moriah Szpara awarded Priscilla Schaffer Memorial Award
Moriah Szpara
Discovery rewriting the evolutionary history of the nervous system
A whole Drosophila larva expressing a fluorescent protein (red) in a subset of its sensory neurons. Credit: Melissa Rolls, Penn State.
Gates Foundation grant boosts malaria research program: Supplemental $4.7 million will aid drug development to accelerate malaria eradication
A false-color electron micrograph of the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite infecting a mosquito. Image courtesy of Margaret Shear, Wikipedia
$2.35 million grant enables better prediction of infectious disease outbreaks
Free public lecture on February 25: "Marine Mammals as Health Sentinels for Oceans and Us"
Gregory Bossart
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