The Webster Groves High School senior has spent nearly three months working at Washington University’s Tyson Research Center near Eureka. The summer program pairs St. Louis-area students with scientists who help them design their own independent-research projects.
Publications from the Department of Biology in July 2018.
A $762k collaborative NSF grant will fund a partnership between Joseph Jez (Wash U Biology chair) with Hiroshi Maeda (U Wisconsin-Madison; Botany) on the mechanisms and impacts of de-regulating aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in plants.
An immediate before-after comparison — the first of its kind — shows that survivors of a hurricane have different traits than the general population.
Spiders could buffer some effects of warming on decomposition
Joan Strassmann and David Queller were awarded a $1,139,388 National Science Foundation grant for the four-year project "Kith and kin in amoeba-bacteria cooperation", about the evolution of cooperation both within and between species, using an amoeba-bacteria system.
The two year grant was awarded from the National Science Foundation
Next step could be ‘nitrogen-fixing’ plants that can do the same, reducing need for fertilizer.
Summer trips across time zones may get a bit easier thanks to a new finding from scientists in St. Louis.
A tiny population of neurons can unlock the body’s clock
Restoration of LaBarque Creek near the Tyson Research Center has sparked new life in a beleaguered aquatic ecosystem. The Ampersand sat down with Kim Medley and Elizabeth Biro to find out more.
Joe Jez, professor and chair of the Department of Biology, nominated Wilkening for the award.
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