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St. Louis high school students compete, meet experts at WashU Brain Bee
Decades-long quest leads to new antibiotic compounds
Bringing expansion microscopy to plants
WashU Expert: The disruptions of daylight saving time
Why do cats have 'toe beans'?
Jez, Pakrasi named fellows of biochemistry society
Faculty Spotlight: New Assistant Professor Kevin Cox
Lady in red: WashU research reveals function of red stigmas in wind-pollinated flowers
Academy honors two university faculty
Why do some cats have orange fur? New hue clues in an old mystery.
Biology Department welcomes Assistant Professor Andreas Kautt
Biology Department welcomes Assistant Professor Kevin Cox
Engineering better sleep
Across southeastern US, weedy rice steals herbicide resistance from crop rice
Brain tumors hijack circadian clock to grow
Researchers aim to develop space biomanufacturing from carbon dioxide, astronaut wastes
Island biodiversity rides on the wings of birds
2024 Global Incubator Seed Grants awarded
2024 Global Incubator Seed Grants awarded
Plants use DNA duplication to increase their resilience
New study in Molecular Cell reveals inner workings of cellular alarm system
Opinion COP29: Doomism is turning audiences off climate action - so let’s share the success stories
Future proofing photosynthesis
From lab to land: Crop modifications are fortifying our food supply against climate change
Hengen Lab explores connections between disease and neural teamwork in new Neuron study
A collector of knowledge, stories, and joy
Understanding the mechanics of regeneration
How plants evolved multiple ways to override genetic instructions
Amazing Brain Carnival at the Science Center
Home to 6,500 trees, WashU Arboretum earns rare status
It's a worm's world: regeneration and regrowth in the Özpolat Lab
Does climate change impact fall foliage?
Why do cats 'chatter'?
The future is purple
So why does Mr. Whiskers meow?
Could our plastic soon be made by this purple bacteria?
Purple bacteria offer path to more sustainable plastic
NSF The Discovery Files: Bioplastics
Climate change is super-charging St. Louis wildflowers
30-Year Friendship Finds a Research Home Through Department of Energy’s Visiting Faculty Program
Game-changing purple bacteria can become bioplastic factories
“Stan did Stan”: students remember Stan Braude
Scientists Discover Purple Bacteria That Could Revolutionize Bioplastics Production
Green Plastics from Purple Bacteria
Bakterien werden zu Biokunststofffabriken
Un avenir sans plastique polluant grâce aux bactéries pourpres ?
Engineering Purple Bacteria for Enhanced Bioplastic Synthesis
Love for cats lures students into this course, which uses feline research to teach science
Turning bacteria into bioplastic factories
Wake Up Call 'The Science Of Cats' Course Finds Popularity Among College Students
Three facts that led to Jennifer Wang’s interest in biological research
Zaher Lab’s surprise discovery about ribosome speed and stress response
Micro-naps in the brain: Some regions sleep while others stay awake
Plant diseases flourish in city landscapes
Scientists find that small regions of the brain can take micro-naps while the rest of the brain is awake and vice versa
Early, Losos elected members of American Philosophical Society
Why some plant diseases thrive in urban environments
Obituary: Stan H. Braude, professor of practice in Arts & Sciences, 62
New research from Zaher Lab takes a closer look at stress response in cells
New study from Pakrasi Lab sheds light on how conflicting processes occur within a single cell
Scientists repot flowering plants’ tree of life—and find it has tangled roots
Chemo for glioblastoma enhanced by tapping into cell’s daily rhythms
Diamond, Queller elected to National Academy of Sciences
The predator's dilemma
Unlocking the ‘chain of worms’
Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Jennifer Wang
Award of up to $31 million supports development of osteoarthritis treatment
Keith Hengen, Washington University St. Louis – Sleep Resets the Brain’s Operating System
Brain Bee gives St. Louis students a chance to explore neuroscience
Here and Next grant funds researchers seeking to use microbiome to restore soil health in Missouri
New research offers insights into the inner workings of DNA methylation
Most Missouri voters are tired of changing clocks every spring and fall
Biologist Olsen helps launch global wild rice alliance
DNA study reveals secrets of weedy rice invasion
New insight into orchid origins
Weedy rice gets competitive boost from its wild neighbors
From the back yard to the lab: Ben Mansfeld talks about his path to plant science
Why do we sleep? Wash U has a lead
Old research, new readers: A closer look at some of the most-read research stories from years past
Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox.
Why do we sleep? Researchers propose an answer to this age-old question
Washington University professor explains the 'Science of Cats'
How to keep wildcats wild: ancient DNA offers fresh insights
Roots of diversity: How underground fungi shape forests
WashU team to study virus transmission, human-wildlife interaction
The art and science of cancer care
It's Time to Stop Daylight Saving Time Forever, Says Wash U Expert
House Cats Will Rule the World: Domestic cats may evolve into the alpha predators of the future.
Grant funds green fertilizer research at WashU
Engineers to build cyborg locusts, study odor-guided navigation
WashU students contribute to biomanufacturing in space
No lizard is an island
Brookings tree replanted after original fell to lightning storm
Olsen installed as George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology
Want a healthy gut? Exposures in first year of life have long-lasting effects
Levin installed as George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology
Faculty Spotlight: Xuehua Zhong
New faculty in Arts & Sciences: Fall 2023
You Believe Your Cat Loves You. Now Science Has Proof.
What an evolutionary biologist got wrong about cats
Watching Birds Is Study-Proven To Dramatically Lower Stress Hormone Levels — The New Bird Feeders That Make It Easy!
New Center for the Environment begins work
Race-based variations in gut bacteria emerge by 3 months of age
Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics
The ‘life-changing’ power of Arts & Sciences programs for high school students
Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here’s how
Hormone alters electric fish’s signal-canceling trick
Fossil skulls alone cannot predict if animal was warm blooded
The secret lives of cats, past and present
Welcoming Dixit as Biology Department Chair
Jez reflects on his time as Biology Department Chair
Study looks at summer solstice effect
The Best Summer Books Of 2023, According To Two Science Writers
Wonder, enchantment and the epic of evolution
A plant research powerhouse
Schaal elected to The American Philosophical Society
Butterfly beginnings: Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America
Biologist Jonathan Losos on ‘How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa’
Goodenough, McKinnon elected to National Academy of Sciences
Genomics expands the mammalverse
Integrating neuroplasticity and evolution
Scientists engineer the first light-powered yeast
How life evolves: Exploring ‘The Sacred Depths of Nature’ with author and biologist Ursula Goodenough.
Our future hangs in the balance: climate change and biodiversity loss
Faculty Spotlight: Mark Manteuffel, Instructor
A cat’s-eye view of one of the most beloved pets
Penczykowski, Medley share seed grant to precisely measure St. Louis climate
Garland E. Allen III (1936–2023): Leading historian of biology and social justice activist
Biofuels as petroleum alternatives: Closing the carbon cycle with bacteria
Decoding the chaos of cognition
Enjoying Birds with a Biologist Known for ‘Slow Birding’
St. Louis high school students compete, meet experts at Brain Bee
Obituary: Garland Allen, professor emeritus of biology, 86
St. Louis Brain Bee event taking place this weekend
Q&A with Corey Westfall, Biology Lecturer
Penczykowski wins NSF CAREER award
Plant-specific histone deacetylases associate with ARGONAUTE4 to promote heterochromatin stabilization and plant heat tolerance
When bugs swipe left
Microbes on a chip: How microfluidics can help us better understand and engineer electroactive microbes
Penczykowski wins NSF CAREER award
Beyond the average cell: Molecular biologists want to know what’s really happening inside individual living cells, not just how the mythical 'average' cell lives
After a Frantic Year, It’s Time for ‘Slow Birding’
Vierstra receives $1.3 million grant
The mystery of the mimic plant
Planting for the future: Arboretum curator Stan Braude shares his goal for the campus landscape as well as for those who enjoy it.
Displays of Fall Leaves Won’t Change Much with Climate Change, But Leaves May Become Less Brilliant
Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures announces first round of funded projects
Birdwatching Has Big Mental-Health Benefits. Here’s How to Start
Slow Birding
Keeping creativity at the heart of science
Kranz laboratory biologists report structure of heme transporter
Herzog installed as Viktor Hamburger Distinguished Professor
Arts & Sciences announces fall 2022 SPEED grant winners
Mallott's path to microbiome research
Why Fall Color Will Fade
Really watching those birds: ‘slow birding,’ with joan strassmann
Humans Are Hardwired to Cheat. Here’s How We Stop Ourselves.
Diversity Feeds Discovery: Spotlight on Arpita Bose
A disordered domain plays a key role in cell division
Life & Work with Joan Strassmann
Biologist Wang to explore formation and regulation of key organizing complex in animal cells
Using electric fish, biologist Carlson to study neuroplasticity and behavioral evolution
Hidden microbiome fortifies animals, plants too
The icing on the cake: Biologist applies epigenetics to challenges in medicine, agriculture
No, autumn leaves are not changing color later because of climate change
Rice Growers Continue to Battle Weedy Enemy
Celebrating outstanding faculty and staff
Bose participates in White House summit on American bioeconomy
Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics
Weedy rice has become herbicide resistant through rapid evolution
Sound may be key to separating molecules, cells
Congratulations to the Neuroscience Community Award Winners!
Modified nucleotides used in COVID-19 vaccines work as designed
Improving microbial electrosynthesis with novel cathode modifications
Evolution Only Thinks About One Thing, and It’s Crabs
Science research roundup: July and August 2022
Seedy, not sweet: Ancient melon genome from Libya yields surprising insights into watermelon relative
Retraction with honor
Özpolat talks about regeneration research and science-inspired pottery
Does this gopher ‘farm’ the roots it eats?: Root-cropping behavior may represent a kind of husbandry
A bacterium that is not a microbe
Zhong Lab's review article featured in Current Opinion in Plant Biology
Zhong Lab's paper featured in Nature Communications
Study: Climate change improves violet blooms, but there’s a hitch
Endangered species need help: No biology expertise required
Study points to Armenian origins of ancient crop with aviation biofuel potential
Spatial aspects of biodiversity important for healthy forests
Urban bees collaboration wins USDA grant
World’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp
Climate Change and Common Violets
A piece of the puzzle into climate research: freshwater wetlands microbes
Science research roundup: May 2022
Flight, Feathers, and Freedom: What birds mean to us and why we should treat them better.
Could soil microbes be a solution to the climate crisis?
Arts & Sciences announces first cohort of SPEED grant recipients
Science research roundup: April 2022
Champion for equitable education, May honored with Ethic of Service Award
Climate Change Is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds
Brains and brawn helped crows and ravens take over the world
From rare soil microbe, a new antibiotic candidate
Jez installed as the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology
Into the wild
Environmental researchers celebrate Earth Month all year
Board grants faculty appointments, promotions, tenure
Architecture, biology and ‘Cellular Transformations’
Molecular ‘blueprint’ illuminates how plants perceive light
Daylight saving time year-round would make our lives worse, Wash U expert says
Barbara Schaal returns to teaching with a new course on biology and environmental policy
Renner edits special issue on separate sexes in plants
New model predicts how geographic features influence evolutionary outcomes
The Senate Just Voted for You to Get Less Sleep, Expert Says
Why Do Lizards Do Pushups? 7 Strange Facts You Didn't Know About the Reptiles
A predator could have sent hundreds of blackbirds crashing to their death in Mexico
Decarbonization with microbial electrosynthesis
Sneaky male guppies affect food web dynamics
Science research roundup: February 2022
Goins joins Biology with a passion for helping all students succeed
Chalker Lab and ISP to expand and sustain hands-on science in K-12 classrooms using Tetrahymena
How birds are adapting to climate crisis-CNN
Brainy birds may fare better under climate change
Herzog to test how cortical neurons, hormones regulate daily patterns of behavior
AAAS names eight Washington University faculty as 2021 fellows
Seed production, recruitment affect how trees are migrating due to climate change
Chalker to expand hands-on science in K-12 classrooms
Levin wins NIH grant
Vierstra receives NIH grant
2021: A year of outstanding accomplishment
Student of sleep: A profile of Lizzie Tilden
From Microbes to the Climate Crisis: An Interview with Microbiology Professor Arpita Bose
Microbial electrosynthesis for sustainable bioproduction
A pathway emerges Biologists describe structure and function of a heme transport and assembly machine
43 years later, alumnus reflects on professor who helped him achieve his life goal
Science research roundup: November and December 2021
Arts & Sciences faculty among world’s most highly cited researchers
The arsenal of molecular biology to combat the climate crisis
No, St. Louis is not arriving later at peak fall foliage. A biologist explains why
Why is the North American fall so red, compared with Europe?
Microbial electrosynthesis for sustainable bioproduction
WashU Expert: Time to retire daylight saving time
Islands are cauldrons of evolution: Study explores adaptation in island, mainland anoles
First artificial scaffolds for studying plant cell growth
Islands are cauldrons of evolution: Study explores adaptation in island, mainland anoles
The new-new kids on the block: hybrid lizards
Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff
Faculty spotlight: Anthony Smith, assistant dean and academic coordinator
Three new faculty searches seek to address environmental racism in St. Louis and beyond
A&S Faculty and Staff Awards
‘Fight or flight’ – unless internal clocks are disrupted, study in mice shows
These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change
Hot topic: Fire and biodiversity in the Missouri Ozarks
Behold the humble water flea, locked in a battle of mythological proportions
Dr Arpita Bose – Harnessing Microbes to Produce Sustainable Plastics and Biofuels
Missouri Wetlands Could Hold Smallest Weapon For Fighting Climate Change
This Wasp Nest of Mine, I’m Gonna Let It Shine
Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and math
Bose awarded Anant Fellowship for Climate Action
More Fun Than Fun: Plants Also Have Their Social Lives and Family Disputes
For larger, older trees, it’s all downhill from here
White clover’s toxic tricks traced to its hybridization
This Fish Is The Master Of The Poignant Pause
In search of refuge Researchers look at whether Ozark oases at Tyson Research Center — climate change refugia — could help species persist in spite of rising temperatures.
Pakrasi to work on positive farming effort
A brief history of the cabbage butterfly’s evolving tastes
Discovery of CO2-absorbing bacteria in Missouri bolsters wetlands’ importance in combating climate change
What’s Holding Streptomyces Back from Producing Gene-Encoding Drugs?
An ecologist and an engineer come together to create Robotany: a portable, low-cost platform for precise automated aerial imaging of field plots
Depth of perception: In plant cells, a conserved mechanism for perceiving mechanical force resides in unexpected location
When stubborn bugs refuse to make drugs
The Exit Interview: Dan Hanson
A bubble of air lets some lizards breathe underwater
Living Earth Collaborative announces 2021 seed grant recipients
These Bacteria Could Help Fight Climate Change, A 'Serendipitous' Finding
Electricity-eating bacteria could help oceans absorb more carbon, study finds
Arpita Bose: Finding collaborative solutions in surprising places
Science research roundup: May and June 2021
Fish Use Dramatic Pauses Too, Wash U Professor Finds
Shrinking to survive: Bacteria adapt to a lifestyle in flux
If I never knew you: Australian reptiles highlight urgent need for taxonomic research in the fight against biodiversity loss
Spotlight Series: Jonathan Myers & the Tyson Research Center FDP of the Ozark Highlands
Tiny Electricity Eating Marine Microbes with a Big Job - Carbon Sequestration In Marine Wetlands
Where Did Watermelon Come From?
A ‘jolt’ for ocean carbon sequestration: Electricity-eating bacteria in marine sediments may play role in combating climate change
More than half of Caribbean lizards and snakes disappeared after Europeans arrived
Zaher wins NIH grant
Electric fish — and humans — pause before communicating key points
A seedy slice of history: Watermelons actually came from northeast Africa
Made in the shade or fun in the sun: New insights into how phytochromes help plants sense and react to light, temperature
Ralph Quatrano will be 2021 Honorary Grand Marshal
Heme is not just for Impossible Burgers
Yehuda Ben-Shahar wins 2021 Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award
Associate Professor Arpita Bose will be a faculty marshal in the graduate student ceremony on May 21st
Meacham, Bose receive university’s first DEPSCoR grant since 1996
Biology department wins HHMI ‘Driving Change’ grant
Plant sex chromosomes defy evolutionary models
Beehives Are Held Together by Their Mutual Gut Microbes
Mountain high: Andean forests have high potential to store carbon under climate change
A community of plant biologists develops guide for science outreach
Scene Rooted in St. Louis: The Ethnobotanical Work of Professor Memory Elvin-Lewis
The body’s daily clock may influence cancer treatment success
Q&A with Jason Weber, Professor, WUSM, Oncology
A tale of two forests could reveal path forward for saving endangered lemurs
Communicating science with empathy and intention
Coastal lupine faces specific extinction threat from climate change
Washington People: Barbara Kunkel
Biology Faculty Promotions
Diversity in nature and academia
Eleanor Pardini talks about childhood, environmental research and public service
Building a better green workhorse
Biologist Dixit awarded $2M to study dynamics of intracellular scaffolds
Michael Landis: Evolutionary radiations along the Hawaiian conveyor belt
Orange is the new ‘block’: Structure reveals key features that help block excess light absorption during photosynthesis
A conversation with Barbara Kunkel - 2020 AAAS fellow - on being a woman scientist
Obituary: Walter H. Lewis, professor emeritus in Arts & Sciences, 90
Seeking to avoid ‘full lockdown,’ cells monitor ribosome collisions
American Society for Cell Biology member profile: Ursula Goodenough
Discovery against all odds: Rita Levi-Montalcini
From mountain biking to mice brains
In fire-prone West, plants need their pollinators — and vice versa
AAAS names 7 Washington University faculty as 2020 fellows
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
Rising higher than ever – where the electricity eating microbes and hunters are now
Hengen awarded $1.8M to study sleep’s contribution to brain function
Living Earth Collaborative announces 2020 seed grant recipients
Plants without cellular recycling systems get creative in the dark
Erik Herzog talks about his background and research
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”
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
Joe Jez speaks at the Amgen Scholars Summer Science Series
Gar Allen office moving project
Yehuda Ben-Shahar promoted to professor of biology
Alan Templeton interviewed on St. Louis on the Air
Ram Dixit promoted to professor of biology
Scientists take part in Ecology publication
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
Society for the Study of Evolution highlights Michael Landis
The mystery of the great naked mole-rat migration
Flawed Research as a Teaching Tool in Undergraduate Science Courses
DBBS faculty spotlight on Rachel Penczykowski
Leadership change in store at International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability
$1.2M grant to study evolution of Central American lizards
Meet the incoming dean: Feng Sheng Hu
How ‘undertaker’ bees recognize dead comrades
Weedy rice is unintended legacy of Green Revolution
Biology community comes together to share thoughts, concerns about COVID-19
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
Naked mole rats migrate above ground with no help from the moon
Faculty Spotlight: Michael Landis, Assistant Professor of Biology
New Biology Faculty Member Michael Landis
Haswell Lab continues legacy of Quatrano Lab’s moss research at Wash U
Schaal named to agricultural research foundation
Joshua Blodgett named to the Early Career Reviewer Board at Journal of Biological Chemistry
The Clock Inside-Erik Herzog on NPR's Science Friday
Remembering Barbara G. Pickard
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
Joseph Jez named Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology
Erik Herzog named Viktor Hamburger Professor of Biology
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
Bose wins new grant for Gateway Science Summer Program
Jez awarded patent for work on engineered plants
L’Oréal USA Awards 11 Female Scientists With Grants to Support Mentorship Efforts Across the U.S.
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
Faculty Spotlight: Barbara Kunkel, Professor of Biology
Hiding in plain sight: Early rice farmers unwittingly selected for weedy imposters, Arts & Sciences biologists find
Recognizing excellence in teaching and service
Can we kill superbugs before they kill us?
Stan Braude: Stories from the Classroom
Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics
Big brains or big guts: Choose one Alternate ecological strategies help birds survive unpredictable conditions
In Defense Of Naked Mole Rats And What We Can Learn From Them
WashU Expert: Proposed changes will stamp out ‘countless species’
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
Haswell and Carlsson receive NSF grant
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?
Joe Jez talks about his first year as Biology Chair
Dear Scientists: Please Make a Version of Stevia That Isn’t Gross
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
Kathy Miller: reflections on retirement
Bob Blankenship: reflections on retirement
Biology Professors inducted into National Academy of Sciences
Can Wearing ‘Well Fashion’ Really Improve Your Health?
Barbara Schaal to receive NSB Public Service Award
The kids are alright: Family quarrels in seeds reveal the ways parents and offspring sometimes evolve in conflicting directions
Jonathan Losos receives 2019 Sewall Wright Award
Specialist enzymes make E. coli antibiotic resistant at low pH
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
Faculty Spotlight: April Bednarski
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
Vierstra wins Stephen Hales Prize
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
Three faculty members named microbiology fellows
Tamed Conflict: How evolutionary biologists attempt to make sense of the existence of organisms from first principles
Roy Curtiss III and Josephine Clark-Curtiss talk about life after Wash U
Faculty Spotlight: Heather Barton
Purple reigns
How to make your podcast stand out in a crowded market
Like a spelling bee, but for neuroscience: WashU Brain Bee set for Feb. 16
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?
Biology Chair Joseph Jez elected as AAAS Fellow
New maps hint at how electric fish got their big brains
Faculty Spotlight: Mary Lambo
Replaying the tape of life: Is it possible?
Erik Herzog on Daylight Savings Time
Richard D. Vierstra receives NIH grant
Obituary: David L. Kirk, professor emeritus of biology, ISP faculty fellow, 84
Dr. Himadri Pakrasi receives U.S. Department of Energy grant
Keith Hengen is chosen to be a Next Generation Leader by the Allen Institute for Brain Science
Erik Herzog receives the Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
Feeding Electricity To Bacteria
Monkey DNA may solve mysteries, help conservation
Faculty Spotlight: Joseph Jez, Biology Chair
Sniffing out error in detection dog data
In sync: How cells make connections could impact circadian rhythm
Bacteria in a changing environment
Jonathan Losos publishes new book
Jez Lab receives NSF grant to collaborate with Maeda Lab at UW-Madison
Leggy lizards don’t survive the storm
Strassmann/Queller Lab receives NSF grant
Jonathan Myers and collaborators awarded NSF EAGER grant
Researchers engineer bacteria that create fertilizer out of thin air
Ram Dixit named new co-director of the Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Jonathan Myers and Hani Zaher receive tenure
ISP’s Victoria May honored for work with students
A New Species in Forest Park
Three biology faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
Bugged out by climate change
Sally Elgin: Lessons learned in a life of science
Sally Elgin receives the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award
Sustaining life on Earth
Faculty Spotlight: Jonathan Losos
WashU Spaces: Keith Hengen
Hands-on event teaches St. Louis teens about cell biology
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
Haswell elected council delegate for AAAS
The Secret Lives of Plants
Celebrating science at the ISP’s annual Darwin Day
Secrets of teaching with Wikipedia
David Kirk receives 2018 Science Educator Award from the Academy of Science – St. Louis
Becoming a biotech explorer
St. Louis Area Brain Bee Takes Teens Inside the Human Mind
Obituary: John Majors, emeritus professor of biochemistry, molecular biophysics, 69
2 St. Louis plant scientists dig deep into the struggles of research
Arpita Bose receives a $40,000 collaboration initiation grant
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