Congratulations to  Jasmin Albert and Heather Dawson for receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

In addition, Jordan Rodriguez and Kendall Tinney received Honorable Mention

The PREP Bio program is a one-year mentored research and professional development experience for
postbaccalaureate students who are intending to pursue a doctoral degree in the life sciences. This is
funded by a 5 year NIH R25 grant awarded to PIs Nadia Singh and Rori Rohlfs in the Institute of Ecology
and Evolution. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that
encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the
biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.

Beginning in the summer of 2024!

Phillips Lab is looking for multiple technicians and post docs for the new initiative in Synthetic Biology & Aging.

For information on the project:https://pages.uoregon.edu/pphil/synbio.html

The Phillips lab, together with researchers in the Department of Bioengineering in the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact at the University of Oregon, is leading a new, broadly collaborative effort to apply approaches from synthetic biology and cellular engineering to address fundamental and applied questions in the biology of aging. To this end, we are searching for multiple research assistant/technician and postdoctoral fellow positions. We anticipate hiring people with a wide range of backgrounds and interests to create a team with diverse skills capable of making unique contributions to this developing area.

Prairies from California to Washington state are catching the heat not just from wildfires but also from warming temperatures. For ranchers, it all means stress on pastureland. Full Story

UO biologists seek to take bite out of mosquitoes

It’s only a first step, but a project led by two UO scientists eventually could deliver welcome news to outdoor lovers and the medical community.

Full article

IE2 professor Peter Ralph discusses the health consequences of genetically similar populations in Healthline article, “Are You Related to the Person You Married?”: http://www.healthline.com/health-news/are-you-related-to-the-person-you-married.

Featured in the winter Cascade here :

http://cascade.uoregon.edu/winter2017/features/the-great-pretender/

The NOAA-funded MOCHA (Monitoring Oregon’s Coastal Harmful Algae) team, that includes IE2 member Michelle Wood as a co-PI, has found that high levels of the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA) in shellfish on the U.S. west coast are linked to warm conditions of  major climate cycles like the El Niño Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a twenty year time series of data on DA in shellfish was used to support the conclusion and validate a risk assessment model that can be used to determine likelihood of blooms of DA producing phytoplankton.  Read more in this article from “Around the O”.