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Professor Malinow elected into the National Academy of Sciences

Two Biology Professors Honored with Faculty Excellence Awards

Three Faculty named Scholars of Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

Therese Markow wins the George W. Beadle Award

Publications

Identification of novel filament-forming proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila melanogaster

Species selection maintains self-incompatibility

The spatial periodicity of grid cells is not sustained during reduced theta oscillations

Some 300 leaders in plant and algae biology from around the country will gather here for a symposium this week to discuss ways of using genetics to develop renewable ways of improving the nation’s food, fuel, pharmaceutical and other bio-based industries.

This spring’s warmer temperatures produced an earlier than normal bloom for cherry blossoms in DC’s tidal basin.

Study Shows Experiments Underestimate Plant Responses to Climate Change

Experiments may dramatically underestimate how plants will respond to climate change in the future.That’s the conclusion of an analysis of 50 plant studies on four continents, published this week in an advance online issue of the journal Nature...