Life Sciences

Three from Eberly College of Science awarded Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships
Michael DeGiorgio, Kin Fai Mak, Kohta Murase
Stone Memorial Lecture set for February 27
Paul Ahlquist
Grant to help pave a big data highway to explore genome, enhance health
Free public lecture on February 18: "The Race to Grow Enough Food for Everyone”
Jonathan Lynch
Free public lecture on February 11: "One World . . . One Health" 2017 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
Peter Hudson
How best to treat infections and tumors: Choice of containment versus aggressive treatment depends on drug resistance
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (top, purple), cancer cells (bottom). Treatment designed to contain, rather than eliminate, chronic infections or tumors where drug resistance can emerge may delay treatment failure. Credit: NIAID (MRSA), Dr Cecil Fox (Photographer), via Wikimedia Commons (cancer cells).
Ernest C. Pollard Lecture Set for February 13
Eva Nogales
New Technologies Against Infectious Diseases: Free public lecture on February 4 in the 2017 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
Nita Bharti
Three Eberly College of Science faculty members elected as Fellows of the AAAS
Kathleen Postle, Paul Babitzke, Jorge Sofo
The Rise and Fall of Diseases Caused by Insects is a free public lecture on January 28  in the 2017 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
Matt Thomas
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