News & Events
May 28, 2008 - Mohamed Noor wins Darwin-Wallace Medal.
The Council of the Linnean Society of London announces the awarding of 13 Darwin-Wallace Medals 2008 for "major advances in evolutionary biology since 1958." The award is presented every 50 years and commemorates the 150th reading of the joint Darwin-Wallace paper "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection" at the Linnean Society of London in 1858. The President of the Society, Professor David F Cutler, will award medals on Thursday 12th February 2009, the 200th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin, to: Professor Nick Barton FRS, Professor M W Chase FRS, FLS, Professor B C Clarke FRS, FLS, Professor Joseph Felsenstein, the late Professor Stephen Jay Gould, Professor P R Grant FRS, FLS, Dr Rosemary Grant FRS, Professor J L B Mallet FLS, Professor Lynn Margulis FLS, the late Professor John Maynard-Smith FRS, FLS, Professor Mohamed Noor, Professor H Allen Orr and Professor Linda Partridge FRS.
May 07, 2008 - Haase Lab publishes important finding on cell cycle
Prof. Steve Haase and his collaborators have published an important discovery in the journal Nature in their paper "Global control of cell cycle transcription by coupled CDK and network oscillators," Nature advance online publication, 07 May 2008 doi:10.1038/nature06955. Using genomic techniques, the team examined about 6,000 genes in mutant yeast cells to discover that many cell cycle activities are driven by a series of transcription factors acting one after another. For more information follow the link to the paper.
March 06, 2008 - Katia Koelle publishes on Dengue Fever
Prof. Katia Koelle and her collaborator, Prof. Yoshiro Nagao (Osaka University) recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 105, no. 6, pp. 2238-2243. The paper is entitled "Decreases in dengue transmission may act to increase the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever."
June 19, 2007 - David Sherwood has been named to the Pew Scholars Program
David Sherwood has been named to the highly selective Pew Scholars Program. The Pew program invests in early to mid-career scientists, seeks to expand foundation of biomedical knowledge & advance scientific frontiers.
Check out the Program Press Release.
Check out Dave Sherwood's Program page.
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