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Braude, professor of practice in Arts & Sciences, 626.6.24New research from Zaher Lab takes a closer look at stress response in cells5.24.24New study from Pakrasi Lab sheds light on how conflicting processes occur within a single cell5.23.24Scientists repot flowering plants’ tree of life—and find it has tangled roots5.17.24Chemo for glioblastoma enhanced by tapping into cell’s daily rhythms5.7.24Diamond, Queller elected to National Academy of Sciences4.26.24The predator's dilemma4.15.24Unlocking the ‘chain of worms’4.1.24Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Jennifer Wang3.28.24Award of up to $31 million supports development of osteoarthritis treatment3.28.24Keith Hengen, Washington University St. Louis – Sleep Resets the Brain’s Operating System3.25.24Brain Bee gives St. Louis students a chance to explore neuroscience3.18.24Here and Next grant funds researchers seeking to use microbiome to restore soil health in Missouri3.12.24New research offers insights into the inner workings of DNA methylation3.12.24Most Missouri voters are tired of changing clocks every spring and fall3.8.24Biologist Olsen helps launch global wild rice alliance2.29.24DNA study reveals secrets of weedy rice invasion2.22.24New insight into orchid origins2.21.24Weedy rice gets competitive boost from its wild neighbors2.16.24From the back yard to the lab: Ben Mansfeld talks about his path to plant science2.8.24Why do we sleep? Wash U has a lead2.1.24 Old research, new readers: A closer look at some of the most-read research stories from years past1.25.24Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox.1.8.24Why do we sleep? Researchers propose an answer to this age-old question12.12.23Washington University professor explains the &＃039;Science of Cats&＃039;11.9.23How to keep wildcats wild: ancient DNA offers fresh insights11.6.23Roots of diversity: How underground fungi shape forests11.2.23WashU team to study virus transmission, human-wildlife interaction10.31.23The art and science of cancer care10.30.23It&＃039;s Time to Stop Daylight Saving Time Forever, Says Wash U Expert10.30.23House Cats Will Rule the World: Domestic cats may evolve into the alpha predators of the future.10.30.23Grant funds green fertilizer research at WashU10.16.23Engineers to build cyborg locusts, study odor-guided navigation10.12.23WashU students contribute to biomanufacturing in space10.10.23No lizard is an island10.5.23Brookings tree replanted after original fell to lightning storm10.5.23Olsen installed as George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology10.3.23Want a healthy gut? Exposures in first year of life have long-lasting effects 10.3.23Levin installed as George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology9.27.23Faculty Spotlight: Xuehua Zhong9.27.23New faculty in Arts & Sciences: Fall 20239.21.23You Believe Your Cat Loves You. Now Science Has Proof.9.11.23What an evolutionary biologist got wrong about cats9.8.23Watching Birds Is Study-Proven To Dramatically Lower Stress Hormone Levels — The New Bird Feeders That Make It Easy!8.30.23New Center for the Environment begins work8.21.23Race-based variations in gut bacteria emerge by 3 months of age8.21.23Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics8.17.23The ‘life-changing’ power of Arts & Sciences programs for high school students8.10.23Cats first finagled their way into human hearts and homes thousands of years ago – here’s how8.9.23Hormone alters electric fish’s signal-canceling trick7.31.23Fossil skulls alone cannot predict if animal was warm blooded7.19.23The secret lives of cats, past and present7.13.23Welcoming Dixit as Biology Department Chair7.13.23Jez reflects on his time as Biology Department Chair7.7.23Study looks at summer solstice effect6.30.23The Best Summer Books Of 2023, According To Two Science Writers6.20.23Wonder, enchantment and the epic of evolution6.5.23A plant research powerhouse5.31.23Schaal elected to The American Philosophical Society5.18.23 Butterfly beginnings: Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America5.5.23Biologist Jonathan Losos on ‘How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa’5.4.23Goodenough, McKinnon elected to National Academy of Sciences4.28.23Genomics expands the mammalverse4.25.23Integrating neuroplasticity and evolution4.21.23Scientists engineer the first light-powered yeast4.21.23How life evolves: Exploring ‘The Sacred Depths of Nature’ with author and biologist Ursula Goodenough.4.20.23Our future hangs in the balance: climate change and biodiversity loss4.14.23Faculty Spotlight: Mark Manteuffel, Instructor4.7.23A cat’s-eye view of one of the most beloved pets4.7.23Penczykowski, Medley share seed grant to precisely measure St. Louis climate3.31.23Garland E. Allen III (1936–2023): Leading historian of biology and social justice activist3.24.23Biofuels as petroleum alternatives: Closing the carbon cycle with bacteria3.24.23Decoding the chaos of cognition3.20.23Enjoying Birds with a Biologist Known for ‘Slow Birding’3.6.23St. Louis high school students compete, meet experts at Brain Bee2.27.23Obituary: Garland Allen, professor emeritus of biology, 862.22.23St. Louis Brain Bee event taking place this weekend2.16.23Q&A with Corey Westfall, Biology Lecturer2.8.23Penczykowski wins NSF CAREER award2.1.23Plant-specific histone deacetylases associate with ARGONAUTE4 to promote heterochromatin stabilization and plant heat tolerance1.27.23 When bugs swipe left1.27.23Microbes on a chip: How microfluidics can help us better understand and engineer electroactive microbes1.23.23Penczykowski wins NSF CAREER award1.6.23Beyond the average cell: Molecular biologists want to know what’s really happening inside individual living cells, not just how the mythical &＃039;average&＃039; cell lives12.14.22After a Frantic Year, It’s Time for ‘Slow Birding’12.13.22Vierstra receives $1.3 million grant12.2.22The mystery of the mimic plant12.1.22Planting for the future: Arboretum curator Stan Braude shares his goal for the campus landscape as well as for those who enjoy it.11.21.22Displays of Fall Leaves Won’t Change Much with Climate Change, But Leaves May Become Less Brilliant11.16.22Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures announces first round of funded projects11.15.22Birdwatching Has Big Mental-Health Benefits. Here’s How to Start11.15.22Slow Birding11.15.22Keeping creativity at the heart of science11.14.22Kranz laboratory biologists report structure of heme transporter11.14.22Herzog installed as Viktor Hamburger Distinguished Professor11.9.22Arts & Sciences announces fall 2022 SPEED grant winners11.1.22Mallott&＃039;s path to microbiome research10.24.22Why Fall Color Will Fade10.24.22Really watching those birds: ‘slow birding,’ with joan strassmann10.20.22Humans Are Hardwired to Cheat. Here’s How We Stop Ourselves.10.17.22Diversity Feeds Discovery: Spotlight on Arpita Bose10.17.22A disordered domain plays a key role in cell division10.13.22Life & Work with Joan Strassmann10.12.22Biologist Wang to explore formation and regulation of key organizing complex in animal cells10.3.22Using electric fish, biologist Carlson to study neuroplasticity and behavioral evolution9.30.22Hidden microbiome fortifies animals, plants too9.29.22The icing on the cake: Biologist applies epigenetics to challenges in medicine, agriculture9.22.22No, autumn leaves are not changing color later because of climate change9.21.22Rice Growers Continue to Battle Weedy Enemy 9.20.22Celebrating outstanding faculty and staff9.15.22Bose participates in White House summit on American bioeconomy9.14.22Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics9.8.22Weedy rice has become herbicide resistant through rapid evolution9.2.22Sound may be key to separating molecules, cells9.1.22Congratulations to the Neuroscience Community Award Winners!8.25.22Modified nucleotides used in COVID-19 vaccines work as designed8.25.22Improving microbial electrosynthesis with novel cathode modifications8.17.22Evolution Only Thinks About One Thing, and It’s Crabs8.17.22Science research roundup: July and August 20228.2.22 Seedy, not sweet: Ancient melon genome from Libya yields surprising insights into watermelon relative7.21.22Retraction with honor7.21.22Özpolat talks about regeneration research and science-inspired pottery7.18.22 Does this gopher ‘farm’ the roots it eats?: Root-cropping behavior may represent a kind of husbandry7.14.22A bacterium that is not a microbe7.14.22Zhong Lab&＃039;s review article featured in Current Opinion in Plant Biology7.14.22Zhong Lab&＃039;s paper featured in Nature Communications7.11.22Study: Climate change improves violet blooms, but there’s a hitch7.7.22Endangered species need help: No biology expertise required7.6.22Study points to Armenian origins of ancient crop with aviation biofuel potential6.30.22Spatial aspects of biodiversity important for healthy forests6.30.22Urban bees collaboration wins USDA grant6.30.22World’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean mangrove swamp6.27.22Climate Change and Common Violets6.17.22A piece of the puzzle into climate research: freshwater wetlands microbes6.1.22Science research roundup: May 20225.25.22Flight, Feathers, and Freedom: What birds mean to us and why we should treat them better.5.3.22Could soil microbes be a solution to the climate crisis?4.27.22Arts & Sciences announces first cohort of SPEED grant recipients4.27.22Science research roundup: April 20224.25.22Champion for equitable education, May honored with Ethic of Service Award4.25.22Climate Change Is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds4.21.22Brains and brawn helped crows and ravens take over the world4.19.22From rare soil microbe, a new antibiotic candidate4.19.22Jez installed as the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology4.18.22Into the wild4.13.22Environmental researchers celebrate Earth Month all year4.6.22Board grants faculty appointments, promotions, tenure3.31.22Architecture, biology and ‘Cellular Transformations’3.31.22Molecular ‘blueprint’ illuminates how plants perceive light3.28.22Daylight saving time year-round would make our lives worse, Wash U expert says3.25.22Barbara Schaal returns to teaching with a new course on biology and environmental policy3.25.22Renner edits special issue on separate sexes in plants3.22.22New model predicts how geographic features influence evolutionary outcomes3.17.22The Senate Just Voted for You to Get Less Sleep, Expert Says2.25.22Why Do Lizards Do Pushups? 7 Strange Facts You Didn&＃039;t Know About the Reptiles2.25.22A predator could have sent hundreds of blackbirds crashing to their death in Mexico2.23.22Decarbonization with microbial electrosynthesis2.22.22Sneaky male guppies affect food web dynamics2.22.22Science research roundup: February 20222.21.22Goins joins Biology with a passion for helping all students succeed 2.17.22Chalker Lab and ISP to expand and sustain hands-on science in K-12 classrooms using Tetrahymena2.11.22How birds are adapting to climate crisis-CNN2.11.22Brainy birds may fare better under climate change1.26.22Herzog to test how cortical neurons, hormones regulate daily patterns of behavior1.26.22AAAS names eight Washington University faculty as 2021 fellows1.24.22Seed production, recruitment affect how trees are migrating due to climate change1.21.22Chalker to expand hands-on science in K-12 classrooms1.13.22Levin wins NIH grant1.13.22Vierstra receives NIH grant1.11.222021: A year of outstanding accomplishment1.7.22Student of sleep: A profile of Lizzie Tilden1.6.22From Microbes to the Climate Crisis: An Interview with Microbiology Professor Arpita Bose1.6.22Microbial electrosynthesis for sustainable bioproduction12.20.21A pathway emerges Biologists describe structure and function of a heme transport and assembly machine12.15.2143 years later, alumnus reflects on professor who helped him achieve his life goal 12.8.21Science research roundup: November and December 202111.30.21Arts & Sciences faculty among world’s most highly cited researchers11.12.21The arsenal of molecular biology to combat the climate crisis11.12.21No, St. Louis is not arriving later at peak fall foliage. A biologist explains why 11.9.21Why is the North American fall so red, compared with Europe?11.3.21Microbial electrosynthesis for sustainable bioproduction10.28.21WashU Expert: Time to retire daylight saving time10.28.21Islands are cauldrons of evolution: Study explores adaptation in island, mainland anoles10.21.21First artificial scaffolds for studying plant cell growth10.11.21Islands are cauldrons of evolution: Study explores adaptation in island, mainland anoles10.11.21The new-new kids on the block: hybrid lizards10.6.21Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff 10.5.21Faculty spotlight: Anthony Smith, assistant dean and academic coordinator10.4.21Three new faculty searches seek to address environmental racism in St. Louis and beyond10.1.21A&S Faculty and Staff Awards10.1.21‘Fight or flight’ – unless internal clocks are disrupted, study in mice shows9.28.21These Bacteria Steal from Iron and Could Be Secretly Helping to Curb Climate Change9.22.21Hot topic: Fire and biodiversity in the Missouri Ozarks9.16.21Behold the humble water flea, locked in a battle of mythological proportions9.9.21Dr Arpita Bose – Harnessing Microbes to Produce Sustainable Plastics and Biofuels9.8.21Missouri Wetlands Could Hold Smallest Weapon For Fighting Climate Change9.8.21This Wasp Nest of Mine, I’m Gonna Let It Shine9.2.21Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and math9.1.21Bose awarded Anant Fellowship for Climate Action8.20.21More Fun Than Fun: Plants Also Have Their Social Lives and Family Disputes8.20.21For larger, older trees, it’s all downhill from here8.18.21White clover’s toxic tricks traced to its hybridization8.17.21This Fish Is The Master Of The Poignant Pause8.17.21In 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.8.11.21Pakrasi to work on positive farming effort8.11.21A brief history of the cabbage butterfly’s evolving tastes8.9.21Discovery of CO2-absorbing bacteria in Missouri bolsters wetlands’ importance in combating climate change 8.6.21What’s Holding Streptomyces Back from Producing Gene-Encoding Drugs?8.2.21An ecologist and an engineer come together to create Robotany: a portable, low-cost platform for precise automated aerial imaging of field plots7.30.21Depth of perception: In plant cells, a conserved mechanism for perceiving mechanical force resides in unexpected location7.29.21When stubborn bugs refuse to make drugs7.26.21The Exit Interview: Dan Hanson 7.23.21A bubble of air lets some lizards breathe underwater7.2.21Living Earth Collaborative announces 2021 seed grant recipients6.28.21These Bacteria Could Help Fight Climate Change, A &＃039;Serendipitous&＃039; Finding6.24.21Electricity-eating bacteria could help oceans absorb more carbon, study finds6.24.21Arpita Bose: Finding collaborative solutions in surprising places6.24.21Science research roundup: May and June 20216.17.21Fish Use Dramatic Pauses Too, Wash U Professor Finds6.17.21Shrinking to survive: Bacteria adapt to a lifestyle in flux6.11.21If I never knew you: Australian reptiles highlight urgent need for taxonomic research in the fight against biodiversity loss6.9.21Spotlight Series: Jonathan Myers & the Tyson Research Center FDP of the Ozark Highlands6.9.21Tiny Electricity Eating Marine Microbes with a Big Job - Carbon Sequestration In Marine Wetlands6.4.21Where Did Watermelon Come From?6.1.21 A ‘jolt’ for ocean carbon sequestration: Electricity-eating bacteria in marine sediments may play role in combating climate change5.30.21More than half of Caribbean lizards and snakes disappeared after Europeans arrived5.30.21Zaher wins NIH grant5.26.21Electric fish — and humans — pause before communicating key points5.25.21A seedy slice of history: Watermelons actually came from northeast Africa5.25.21 Made in the shade or fun in the sun: New insights into how phytochromes help plants sense and react to light, temperature5.20.21Ralph Quatrano will be 2021 Honorary Grand Marshal5.11.21 Heme is not just for Impossible Burgers5.5.21Yehuda Ben-Shahar wins 2021 Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award 5.5.21Associate Professor Arpita Bose will be a faculty marshal in the graduate student ceremony on May 21st5.4.21Meacham, Bose receive university’s first DEPSCoR grant since 19965.3.21Biology department wins HHMI ‘Driving Change’ grant4.23.21Plant sex chromosomes defy evolutionary models4.23.21Beehives Are Held Together by Their Mutual Gut Microbes4.19.21 Mountain high: Andean forests have high potential to store carbon under climate change4.13.21A community of plant biologists develops guide for science outreach4.13.21 Scene Rooted in St. Louis: The Ethnobotanical Work of Professor Memory Elvin-Lewis4.7.21The body’s daily clock may influence cancer treatment success4.6.21Q&A with Jason Weber, Professor, WUSM, Oncology3.31.21A tale of two forests could reveal path forward for saving endangered lemurs3.31.21Communicating science with empathy and intention3.29.21Coastal lupine faces specific extinction threat from climate change3.10.21Washington People: Barbara Kunkel3.10.21Biology Faculty Promotions3.2.21Diversity in nature and academia2.15.21Eleanor Pardini talks about childhood, environmental research and public service2.15.21Building a better green workhorse2.2.21Biologist Dixit awarded $2M to study dynamics of intracellular scaffolds1.26.21Michael Landis: Evolutionary radiations along the Hawaiian conveyor belt1.7.21Orange is the new ‘block’: Structure reveals key features that help block excess light absorption during photosynthesis12.21.20A conversation with Barbara Kunkel - 2020 AAAS fellow - on being a woman scientist12.18.20Obituary: Walter H. Lewis, professor emeritus in Arts & Sciences, 9012.17.20Seeking to avoid ‘full lockdown,’ cells monitor ribosome collisions12.14.20American Society for Cell Biology member profile: Ursula Goodenough12.10.20Discovery against all odds: Rita Levi-Montalcini12.7.20From mountain biking to mice brains11.30.20In fire-prone West, plants need their pollinators — and vice versa11.24.20AAAS names 7 Washington University faculty as 2020 fellows11.11.20The future of STEM education: engaging our undergraduates in doing science11.2.20Wash U Professor Erik Herzog Explains Why Daylight Saving Time Is Bad For Us 10.30.20Andrés López-Sepulcre on guppies and eco-evolutionary theory10.22.20Rising higher than ever – where the electricity eating microbes and hunters are now10.5.20Hengen awarded $1.8M to study sleep’s contribution to brain function9.30.20Living Earth Collaborative announces 2020 seed grant recipients9.25.20Plants without cellular recycling systems get creative in the dark9.22.20Erik Herzog talks about his background and research9.21.20Ancient Python Lays Eggs, Apparently Without Male Help9.11.20Early infection makes plants more vulnerable to later infection9.3.20Arpita Bose: Creating plastics from electricity with “Biobatteries”8.31.20Once infected, twice infected8.31.20An Avian Dilemma — How Birds Are Hijacking Others&＃039; Nests To Raise Their Young 8.26.20Meet the hedge fund managers of avian world: Faced with uncertainty, brood parasites literally lay eggs in more baskets8.18.20Resilience: a summer 2020 case study8.12.20Zeroing out their own zap: Time-shifted inhibition helps electric fish ignore their own signals8.3.20Meet Lizard Man, a reptile-loving biologist tackling some of the biggest questions in evolution8.3.20Joe Jez speaks at the Amgen Scholars Summer Science Series7.20.20Gar Allen office moving project7.8.20Yehuda Ben-Shahar promoted to professor of biology7.6.20Alan Templeton interviewed on St. Louis on the Air7.6.20Ram Dixit promoted to professor of biology7.1.20Scientists take part in Ecology publication7.1.20Bruce Carlson promoted to professor of biology6.30.20Revolution Medicines Reports New Application of Tri-Complex Modality for “Undruggable” Protein Targets and Announces License to Ginkgo Bioworks to Explore Potential Use Against Novel Coronavirus6.23.20An ion channel senses cell swelling and helps cells to choose a response6.15.20WashU Expert: ‘Extinction crisis even worse than realized’6.12.20How to build better highways in plants5.28.20New Profs in the Age of COVID19 - @swannegordon5.21.20Society for the Study of Evolution highlights Michael Landis5.14.20The mystery of the great naked mole-rat migration 5.7.20Flawed Research as a Teaching Tool in Undergraduate Science Courses5.7.20DBBS faculty spotlight on Rachel Penczykowski5.6.20Leadership change in store at International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability4.9.20$1.2M grant to study evolution of Central American lizards4.9.20Meet the incoming dean: Feng Sheng Hu4.1.20How ‘undertaker’ bees recognize dead comrades3.26.20Weedy rice is unintended legacy of Green Revolution3.16.20Biology community comes together to share thoughts, concerns about COVID-193.9.20Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6M to study weedy invader3.5.20Patrizia d’Ettorre joins the WashU biology department as Clark Way Harrison Visiting Professor3.4.20Birds of a feather better not together: &＃039;Homogenization’ threatens ecosystems at larger geographic scales3.2.20Genomics Reveals How Humans Can Inadvertently Drive Plant Mimicry2.28.20New grant awards in the Biology Department2.25.20Naked mole rats migrate above ground with no help from the moon1.31.20Faculty Spotlight: Michael Landis, Assistant Professor of Biology1.22.20New Biology Faculty Member Michael Landis1.22.20Haswell Lab continues legacy of Quatrano Lab’s moss research at Wash U1.15.20Schaal named to agricultural research foundation1.9.20Joshua Blodgett named to the Early Career Reviewer Board at Journal of Biological Chemistry1.7.20The Clock Inside-Erik Herzog on NPR&＃039;s Science Friday12.27.19Remembering Barbara G. Pickard 12.18.19Grain traits traced to ‘dark matter’ of rice genome12.18.19And then there was light Arts & Sciences researchers provide new insights on the photoconversion mechanism of phytochromes12.13.19Joseph Jez named Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology 12.3.19Erik Herzog named Viktor Hamburger Professor of Biology11.8.19Faculty Spotlight: Swanne Gordon, Assistant Professor of Biology11.5.19Straight from the source: Arts & Sciences researchers discover novel process microbes use to harvest electrons11.1.19Getting to know Tyson&＃039;s plant disease research team10.25.19This year, let’s make standard time permanent10.21.19Dr. Elizabeth Haswell: Researching How Plant Cells Sense and Respond to Internal Forces-#524 of People Behind the Science Podcast10.18.19This Strange Rule Is What Makes the Human Brain So Powerful10.17.19Bose wins new grant for Gateway Science Summer Program10.15.19Jez awarded patent for work on engineered plants10.15.19L’Oréal USA Awards 11 Female Scientists With Grants to Support Mentorship Efforts Across the U.S.10.11.19New England winters are on the decline due to climate change, study says 10.11.19These Microbes ‘Eat’ Electrons for Energy10.9.19NSF funds research on nitrogen fixation10.7.19Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing9.30.19Brave new world Simple changes in intensity of weather events "could be lethal," researcher says9.25.19Faculty Spotlight: Barbara Kunkel, Professor of Biology9.20.19Hiding in plain sight: Early rice farmers unwittingly selected for weedy imposters, Arts & Sciences biologists find9.17.19Recognizing excellence in teaching and service9.13.19Can we kill superbugs before they kill us?9.11.19Stan Braude: Stories from the Classroom9.6.19Meet our new faculty: Natural sciences and mathematics8.23.19Big brains or big guts: Choose one Alternate ecological strategies help birds survive unpredictable conditions8.16.19In Defense Of Naked Mole Rats And What We Can Learn From Them8.16.19WashU Expert: Proposed changes will stamp out ‘countless species’8.15.19Sticky proteins help plants know when — and where — to grow New research uncovers a mechanism that keeps hormone auxin in its place8.8.19Rethinking seizures associated with cardiac disease: Fly study suggests neuronal gene malfunction, not oxygen deprivation, is behind long QT seizures 7.29.19Haswell and Carlsson receive NSF grant7.29.19Strange Evolution: the Weird Future of Life on Earth7.24.19‘Antibacterial’ Chemical in Consumer Products Causes More Harm by Making Bacteria Stronger7.23.19Putting the brakes on lateral root development: Arts & Sciences research could help plants better cope with distinct soil conditions and environments7.16.19Neural Networks and Variance, the Implications for Disease-Futuretech Podcast featuring Keith Hengen7.15.19Mustering a milder mustard Scientists reveal protein responsible for a bitter taste. But will it help us to eat our greens?7.15.19Joe Jez talks about his first year as Biology Chair7.12.19Dear Scientists: Please Make a Version of Stevia That Isn’t Gross7.2.19Gearing up for the Midwestern Collegiate Climate Summit6.12.19Structuring sweetness: What makes Stevia so sweet? The molecular madness that makes an herb 200 times sweeter than sugar6.3.19Petra Anne Levin: Current Biology5.3.19Kathy Miller: reflections on retirement5.3.19Bob Blankenship: reflections on retirement5.3.19Biology Professors inducted into National Academy of Sciences5.2.19Can Wearing ‘Well Fashion’ Really Improve Your Health?5.2.19Barbara Schaal to receive NSB Public Service Award4.26.19The kids are alright: Family quarrels in seeds reveal the ways parents and offspring sometimes evolve in conflicting directions4.17.19Jonathan Losos receives 2019 Sewall Wright Award4.15.19Specialist enzymes make E. coli antibiotic resistant at low pH4.10.19Tidying up: A new way to direct trash to autophagy Researchers find new way to clean up cells; discovery could aid attack on human disease4.9.19Creating sustainable bioplastics from electricity-eating microbes4.8.19Rusted root: Weedy rice repeatedly evolves ‘cheater’ root traits3.26.19Faculty Spotlight: April Bednarski3.26.19Study shows how electricity-eating microbes use electrons to fix carbon dioxide3.26.19Bose Lab publishes new paper in Nature Communications3.26.19Sinking really low – the story of a microbe, electricity and carbon dioxide3.21.19Vierstra wins Stephen Hales Prize3.20.19Washington People: Erik Herzog3.15.19Blodgett awarded CAREER grant to study biosynthetic silence3.14.19Germ-Killing Chemical Shields Bacteria From Antibiotics3.14.19WashU Expert: The eternal sunshine of perennial ‘wintertime’: Abandoning daylight saving time makes public health sense2.25.19Bose receives US Army grant2.25.19Blodgett receives CAREER grant from NSF2.25.19Chemical added to consumer products impairs response to antibiotic treatment: Triclosan added to toothpaste, mouthwash to kill bacteria inadvertently makes such cells stronger2.25.19Earning a bee’s wings: In hives, graduating to forager a requirement for social membership2.20.19Three faculty members named microbiology fellows2.12.19Tamed Conflict: How evolutionary biologists attempt to make sense of the existence of organisms from first principles1.30.19Roy Curtiss III and Josephine Clark-Curtiss talk about life after Wash U1.25.19Faculty Spotlight: Heather Barton1.17.19Purple reigns1.15.19How to make your podcast stand out in a crowded market1.11.19Like a spelling bee, but for neuroscience: WashU Brain Bee set for Feb. 1612.12.18Biology Professor Highlights Active Learning in Science Education12.3.18Plant’s recycling system important in sickness and in health12.3.18Should Evolution Treat Our Microbes as Part of Us?11.30.18Biology Chair Joseph Jez elected as AAAS Fellow11.15.18New maps hint at how electric fish got their big brains11.14.18Faculty Spotlight: Mary Lambo11.9.18Replaying the tape of life: Is it possible?11.7.18Erik Herzog on Daylight Savings Time11.7.18Richard D. Vierstra receives NIH grant11.6.18Obituary: David L. Kirk, professor emeritus of biology, ISP faculty fellow, 8411.6.18Dr. Himadri Pakrasi receives U.S. Department of Energy grant11.6.18Keith Hengen is chosen to be a Next Generation Leader by the Allen Institute for Brain Science11.6.18Erik Herzog receives the Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN)10.23.18Feeding Electricity To Bacteria10.19.18Monkey DNA may solve mysteries, help conservation9.28.18Faculty Spotlight: Joseph Jez, Biology Chair9.14.18Sniffing out error in detection dog data8.27.18In sync: How cells make connections could impact circadian rhythm8.7.18Bacteria in a changing environment8.7.18Jonathan Losos publishes new book7.25.18Jez Lab receives NSF grant to collaborate with Maeda Lab at UW-Madison7.25.18Leggy lizards don’t survive the storm7.20.18Strassmann/Queller Lab receives NSF grant7.17.18Jonathan Myers and collaborators awarded NSF EAGER grant7.16.18Researchers engineer bacteria that create fertilizer out of thin air6.22.18Ram Dixit named new co-director of the Plant and Microbial Biosciences6.22.18Jonathan Myers and Hani Zaher receive tenure5.30.18ISP’s Victoria May honored for work with students5.4.18A New Species in Forest Park5.2.18Three biology faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences4.20.18Bugged out by climate change4.20.18Sally Elgin: Lessons learned in a life of science4.18.18Sally Elgin receives the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award4.10.18Sustaining life on Earth4.6.18Faculty Spotlight: Jonathan Losos3.29.18WashU Spaces: Keith Hengen3.26.18Hands-on event teaches St. Louis teens about cell biology 3.22.18Yehuda Ben-Shahar awarded $770,000 by the National Science Foundation3.15.18Making Drugs From Bugs3.14.18Is Daylight Saving Time necessary? 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