BIOLOGY BULLETIN
August 10, 2009
Liz Waters has
been awarded a three-year NSF grant from the Integrative Organismal Systems
Division. She is the sole PI on this $583k award titled
"Evolutionary Studies of the Heat Shock Response and Thermotolerance in
Boechera: Transcriptomics, Physiology and Gene Evolution."
Kelly Doran's
research is featured on the cover of The
Journal of Infectious Diseases. Check out a description
on the
Joan Chen, Director
of the CSUPERB MicroChemical Core Facility has received word from her
collaborator at UCSD that their PGRP grant will be funded by NSF; it will
provide $373k to Joan for three years.
Forest Rohwer, Liz Dinsdale, and Katie Barrot recently participated in
a National Geographic Expedition to the
Rebecca Vega Thurber,
Forest Rohwer's former postdoc is featured as a "Scientist to Watch"
in the August 2009 issue of The Scientist both
in print and online; you can see the online article at: http://www.the-scientist.com/2009/08/1/50/1/
The online article includes a link to the video clip from The Colbert report in which Steven
Colbert refers to her work in which she discovered herpes-like viruses in
corals. The article describes the work that she did in
We're excited to have two new faculty members join us this year:
Jeremy Long has just
joined us and is establishing a Marine Chemical Ecology Lab in PS 145; check
out his web page at http://www.3dmatt.com/drlong/
Jeremy will be teaching a new course on "Chemical Ecology"
this fall.
Liz
Dinsdale is our newest hire, and her area is Marine
Ecology Metagenomics. She's establishing her lab in LS 308, and is
preparing a new course proposal for a lab course in Metagenomics that she hopes
to offer next spring incorporating the latest technology in DNA sequencing.
This course would serve as a model for similar courses at other
universities.
Please send your BioBulletin items to Medora Bratlien at
bratlien@sunstroke.sdsu.edu by
Friday at 4:00 p.m.