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Seeking to avoid ‘full lockdown,’ cells monitor ribosome collisions

American Society for Cell Biology member profile: Ursula Goodenough

Rare Iridescent Snake Discovered in Vietnam

Discovery against all odds: Rita Levi-Montalcini

From mountain biking to mice brains

In fire-prone West, plants need their pollinators — and vice versa

The future of STEM education: engaging our undergraduates in doing science

Wash U Professor Erik Herzog Explains Why Daylight Saving Time Is Bad For Us

Andrés López-Sepulcre on guppies and eco-evolutionary theory

From strawberry poison dart frogs to Trinidadian guppies

Rising higher than ever – where the electricity eating microbes and hunters are now

What cold lizards in Miami can tell us about climate change resilience

Micro-climates may help save plant species as global temperatures rise

‘Honey bee, it’s me’ Study: Gut bacteria is key to bee ID

Sicker livestock may increase climate woes Vicious cycle: More parasites means higher emissions of potent greenhouse gas

Hengen awarded $1.8M to study sleep’s contribution to brain function

Undergraduate research is for everyone

Living Earth Collaborative announces 2020 seed grant recipients

Plants without cellular recycling systems get creative in the dark

Ancient Python Lays Eggs, Apparently Without Male Help

Early infection makes plants more vulnerable to later infection

Arpita Bose: Creating plastics from electricity with “Biobatteries”

Going below the surface at Tyson Research Center

Once infected, twice infected

An Avian Dilemma — How Birds Are Hijacking Others' Nests To Raise Their Young

Meet the hedge fund managers of avian world: Faced with uncertainty, brood parasites literally lay eggs in more baskets

Resilience: a summer 2020 case study

Zeroing out their own zap: Time-shifted inhibition helps electric fish ignore their own signals

Meet Lizard Man, a reptile-loving biologist tackling some of the biggest questions in evolution

Jeanette Goldfarb Plant Growth Facility Updates

Olin Library Updates

The events of the COVID-19 pandemic according to a 4th-year grad student

Whether cultivating roses or studying cassava, Black botanists are in the spotlight this week

Alan Templeton interviewed on St. Louis on the Air

Bruce Carlson promoted to professor of biology

Revolution Medicines Reports New Application of Tri-Complex Modality for “Undruggable” Protein Targets and Announces License to Ginkgo Bioworks to Explore Potential Use Against Novel Coronavirus

An ion channel senses cell swelling and helps cells to choose a response

WashU Expert: ‘Extinction crisis even worse than realized’

How to build better highways in plants

New Profs in the Age of COVID19 - @swannegordon

The mystery of the great naked mole-rat migration

Wolf spiders may turn to cannibalism in a warming Arctic

Lizards develop new ‘love language’ Animal chemical signals shift after only four generations

With on-campus lab work halted, researchers forge ahead

Biology undergrad Ethan Weiner talks about Bio 500 research in the Haswell Lab

$1.2M grant to study evolution of Central American lizards

How ‘undertaker’ bees recognize dead comrades

Weedy rice is unintended legacy of Green Revolution

Hot time in the city: Urban lizards evolve heat tolerance

Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6M to study weedy invader

Patrizia d’Ettorre joins the WashU biology department as Clark Way Harrison Visiting Professor

Birds of a feather better not together: 'Homogenization’ threatens ecosystems at larger geographic scales

Genomics Reveals How Humans Can Inadvertently Drive Plant Mimicry

New grant awards in the Biology Department

Arts & Sciences students, alumni among finalists for Skandalaris award

Naked mole rats migrate above ground with no help from the moon

A bird’s-eye view of global health

Course Spotlight: Student Experience with Bio 472 Behavioral Ecology

Faculty Spotlight: Michael Landis, Assistant Professor of Biology

St. Louis Wildlife Project Captures The Day-To-Day Of Region’s Wild Animals

New Biology Faculty Member Michael Landis
Haswell Lab continues legacy of Quatrano Lab’s moss research at Wash U

The Clock Inside-Erik Herzog on NPR's Science Friday

Grain traits traced to ‘dark matter’ of rice genome

And then there was light Arts & Sciences researchers provide new insights on the photoconversion mechanism of phytochromes

Four ways to curb light pollution, save bugs Insects have experienced global declines. Flipping the switch can help.

Faculty Spotlight: Swanne Gordon, Assistant Professor of Biology

Straight from the source: Arts & Sciences researchers discover novel process microbes use to harvest electrons

Getting to know Tyson's plant disease research team

This year, let’s make standard time permanent

Dr. Elizabeth Haswell: Researching How Plant Cells Sense and Respond to Internal Forces-#524 of People Behind the Science Podcast

This Strange Rule Is What Makes the Human Brain So Powerful

Why Spraying Saltwater On Roads Could Save Missouri Money And Reduce Runoff

New England winters are on the decline due to climate change, study says

These Microbes ‘Eat’ Electrons for Energy

NSF funds research on nitrogen fixation

Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing

Brave new world Simple changes in intensity of weather events "could be lethal," researcher says

How Cities Reshape the Evolutionary Path of Urban Wildlife

Hiding in plain sight: Early rice farmers unwittingly selected for weedy imposters, Arts & Sciences biologists find

Can we kill superbugs before they kill us?

Science Research Roundup August 2019

U.S. Mosquitoes Are Laying 'Time Capsule' Eggs That Can Outlast Colder Winters

Mosquitoes push northern limits with time-capsule eggs to survive winters

Big brains or big guts: Choose one Alternate ecological strategies help birds survive unpredictable conditions

Missouri researchers study golf course grass to address agricultural challenges

In Defense Of Naked Mole Rats And What We Can Learn From Them

WashU Expert: Proposed changes will stamp out ‘countless species’

Caught on camera Wildlife of greater St. Louis area comes into focus in new biodiversity project

Sticky proteins help plants know when — and where — to grow New research uncovers a mechanism that keeps hormone auxin in its place

Rethinking seizures associated with cardiac disease: Fly study suggests neuronal gene malfunction, not oxygen deprivation, is behind long QT seizures

Interning local: Universal experience, valuable skills Undergraduates find meaningful summer work in our own backyard

Strange Evolution: the Weird Future of Life on Earth

‘Antibacterial’ Chemical in Consumer Products Causes More Harm by Making Bacteria Stronger

Putting the brakes on lateral root development: Arts & Sciences research could help plants better cope with distinct soil conditions and environments

Neural Networks and Variance, the Implications for Disease-Futuretech Podcast featuring Keith Hengen

Mustering a milder mustard Scientists reveal protein responsible for a bitter taste. But will it help us to eat our greens?

James Stroud of Losos Lab: Tropical Ecology Field Research

Dear Scientists: Please Make a Version of Stevia That Isn’t Gross

Bison overlooked in domestication of grain crops

Mosquitoes are out in force across St. Louis, but some species pose bigger risks than others
Gearing up for the Midwestern Collegiate Climate Summit

Structuring sweetness: What makes Stevia so sweet? The molecular madness that makes an herb 200 times sweeter than sugar

Petra Anne Levin: Current Biology

Two students will join the Bose Lab this summer through US Army funding

A tale of two skeeters Tyson Research Center biologists discover something positive about an invasive mosquito species

Michael Bloomberg announces Midwestern Collegiate Climate Summit

Mather wins Harrison D. Stalker Award

Hsu wins Spector Prize

Chin wins Quatrano Prize

Expanding solar power at Tyson Research Center: Three McKelvey School of Engineering students design sustainable power system for Tyson

Can Wearing ‘Well Fashion’ Really Improve Your Health?

Pregnancy shifts the daily schedule forward: New study finds both schedule, activity level changes in normal full-term pregnancies

The kids are alright: Family quarrels in seeds reveal the ways parents and offspring sometimes evolve in conflicting directions

Specialist enzymes make E. coli antibiotic resistant at low pH

Warming pushes lobsters and other species to seek cooler homes

Tidying up: A new way to direct trash to autophagy Researchers find new way to clean up cells; discovery could aid attack on human disease

Creating sustainable bioplastics from electricity-eating microbes

Rusted root: Weedy rice repeatedly evolves ‘cheater’ root traits

Study shows how electricity-eating microbes use electrons to fix carbon dioxide

Bose Lab publishes new paper in Nature Communications

Sinking really low – the story of a microbe, electricity and carbon dioxide

Washington People: Erik Herzog

Blodgett awarded CAREER grant to study biosynthetic silence

Germ-Killing Chemical Shields Bacteria From Antibiotics

WashU Expert: The eternal sunshine of perennial ‘wintertime’: Abandoning daylight saving time makes public health sense

Bose receives US Army grant

Blodgett receives CAREER grant from NSF

Chemical added to consumer products impairs response to antibiotic treatment: Triclosan added to toothpaste, mouthwash to kill bacteria inadvertently makes such cells stronger

Earning a bee’s wings: In hives, graduating to forager a requirement for social membership

Arctic Wolf Spider’s Changing Diet May Help Keep Arctic Cool & Lessen Some Impacts of Global Warming

Tamed Conflict: How evolutionary biologists attempt to make sense of the existence of organisms from first principles

WashU Expert: Mosquitoes and ticks do better in extreme cold than we do

Bio 500 Research Spotlight: Samuel Kim on the Kummer Lab

Purple reigns

Biology Professor Highlights Active Learning in Science Education

Plant’s recycling system important in sickness and in health

Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us?

Bio 500 Research Spotlight: Kevin Yin on the Rentschler Lab

Getting to know the humans of Tyson

New maps hint at how electric fish got their big brains

Replaying the tape of life: Is it possible?

Bio 500 Research Spotlight: Benjamin French on the Elgin Lab

Erik Herzog on Daylight Savings Time

Bio 500 Research Spotlight: Hannah White on the Perlmutter Lab

Richard D. Vierstra receives NIH grant

Dr. Himadri Pakrasi receives U.S. Department of Energy grant

Monkey DNA may solve mysteries, help conservation

Faculty Spotlight: Joseph Jez, Biology Chair

Sunsetting of PARC

Interview with undergrad Daniel Berkovich about the American Society of Plant Biologists SURF

In sync: How cells make connections could impact circadian rhythm

A path to diversity in neuroscience

Bacteria in a changing environment

Leggy lizards don’t survive the storm

Jez Lab receives NSF grant to collaborate with Maeda Lab at UW-Madison

Warming alters predator-prey interactions in the Arctic

Researchers engineer bacteria that create fertilizer out of thin air

Jet Lag: trips across time zones may get a bit easier

VIP neurons hold master key to jet lag response

A New Species in Forest Park

Bugged out by climate change

Sustaining life on Earth

WashU Spaces: Keith Hengen

Yehuda Ben-Shahar awarded $770,000 by the National Science Foundation

Making Drugs From Bugs

Is Daylight Saving Time necessary? And, why ‘springing ahead’ is harder than ‘falling back’

Keeping plant-cell motors on track

(Daylight Saving) Time is not on your side

Arms races and cooperation among amoebae in the wild

The Secret Lives of Plants

Large-scale removal of beachgrass leads to new life for endangered coastal lupine
Could tiny green creatures provide clues for how to create a more sustainable future?

Becoming a biotech explorer

2 St. Louis plant scientists dig deep into the struggles of research

Arpita Bose receives a $40,000 collaboration initiation grant

Plotting the path of plant pathogens
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