Daryl W. Lam, graduate
student in the PhycoLab, has received the 2008 Grants in Aid of Research Program
Award from the Phycological Society of America, for his dissertation project
"Assessment of subaerial microchlorophytan phylodiversity in Surinam,
South America."
(6/08)
View-Hune (Alex)
Teoh has joined our department as the new lab manager for the Steven Johnson
Molecular Systematics Lab. Alex started 2 June (Monday) and is in the process
of getting an email address, paperwork, etc., and generally settling in to
UA and Tuscaloosa. Please drop by and welcome Alex to the Biological Sciences'
family the next time you are in Mary Harmon Bryant Hall.
(6/08)
Sophomore Biology
majors Kalen Berry of Hartselle and Susan M. DeLeon of San Antonio, Texas
have been awarded
Goldwater
Scholarships.
(5/08)
Drs. Kim and Guy
Caldwell have won the first annual
HudsonAlpha
Prize for Outstanding Innovation in Life Sciences.
Congratulations Guy and Kim!
More info here.
(5/08)
The following Biology
majors were recognized at the Undergraduate Research Conference
Oral presentation
First Place: Samuel Kyle Lee
"Seize the Worm: Genetic Analysis of Aberrant Neuronal Activity."
Faculty Mentors: Drs. Guy and Kim Caldwell
Oral presentation
Third Place: Britton O’Shields
"In the Search of New Phylogenetic Markers for the Bar Coding of Life
Project: Algae."
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Juan M. Lopez-Bautista
Poster Presentation
First Place: Stacey Fox
"Mechanistic Analysis of torsinA Function by RNAi."
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kim Caldwell
Poster presentation
Fourth Place: Tara Wood
"Bacterial Warfare: Assessing the Effects of Competition on Antibiotic
Production."
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Julie Olson
(4/08)
Dr. Leslie Rissler
is a member of the jointly funded NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis
and Synthesis) and NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) working
group on Mechanistic Distribution Models: Energetics, Fitness, and Population
Dynamics. Over the next two years she will be working with this group in Santa
Barbara, CA and Durham, NC. One goal is to develop new methods that integrate
geographic variation in traits and adaptation within species to better predict
species range shifts during climate change.
(4/08)
Dr. Leslie Rissler
is also a member of the recently funded NESCent catalysis group titled: Perspectives
on the Origin and Conservation of Biodiversity in Patagonia. She was selected
as a member to review the conservation implications of a NSF PIRE project
in Patagonia. This work starts in June of 2008.
(4/08)
Dr. Fabio Rindi,
postdoctoral researcher in the PhycoLab, has accepted the position of Algal
Systematist at the National University of Ireland, Galway, starting April
2008, congratulations and good luck to Fabio!
(3/08)
Local news broadcast
on
dystonia
research in the Caldwell lab.
(3/08)
Dr. Juan Lopez-Bautista
organized and led a discussion group on the Molecular Systematics of Algae
at the University of La Habana, Cuba, during the week of February 2nd - 8th.
The venue was the Centro de Investigaciones Marinas, and several scientists,
including some from remote parts of Cuba, attended the discussion group. This
PhycoLab project is being sponsored by the Alabama-Cuba Initiative.
(2/08)
Biology major Rene
Rivas has been named to the
USA
Today All-USA College Academic First Team.
More info on Renee and on UA's six other winners
here.
(2/08)
Biology major Kyle
Lee has been awarded the
Benjamin Cummings
Biology Prize
(2/08)
Research in the Caldwell
lab has led to the identification of
five genes
that may offer protection to Parkinson's Disease.
(2/08)
Graduate student
Daryl Lam has been elected as student representative to the Executive Committee
of the Phycological Society of America for 2008-2011.
(1/08)
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mission
of the Department of Biological Sciences.
Center for Freshwater Studies
Coalition for Biomolecular Products
CarpeDB, the epilepsy database
Optical Analysis Center
Biological
Collections at the University
University Arboretum
Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Rodgers Library for Science and
Engineering
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