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June 1, 2022

Spring 2022 Rotation Talks

REMINDER
 
Spring rotation talks will be held next week on Mon, June 6th (IEE and IMB) and Tues, June 7th (ION).

2022 Grad Forum Award Winners

Congratulations to Sabrina Mostoufi, Claire Goodfellow, Savanah Bird, and Herve Memiaghe on their awards from the 2022 UO Graduate Research Forum!
Sabrina won an Outstanding Poster Award for her presentation entitled, “Wolbachia infection alters transposable element activity in Drosophila melanogaster.”
Claire, Savanah, and Herve won 1st Place for Panel Presentations for their panel entitled, “The Future of Africa’s Elephants: Conservation and coexistence in a changing world.”
December 1, 2020

IEE Fall Rotation Talks – 10:00AM Monday, December 7

IEE Fall Rotation Talks – 10:00AM
Monday, December 7, 2020
Host: Brendan Bohannan

 

TIME SPEAKER                                               LAB
10:00 AM Gilia Patterson                              Kern
10:20 Abby Onos                                             Bohannan
10:40 Shannon Snyder                                   Cresko
11:00 Sarah Erskine                                        Diez
11:20 Masha Korchagina                                McGuire

BREAK
1:00 PM Carmen Ebel                                    Hallett
1:20 Ori Chafe                                                  Silva
1:40 LyAndra Lujan                                       Singh
2:00 Savanah Bird                                          Ting
2:20 Rose Al-Saadi                                          Phillips

October 17, 2018

Institute research to look at climate stresses

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

January 10, 2018

Research from the Bradshaw – Holzapfel lab featured in AroundtheO

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

April 24, 2017

IE2 professor Peter Ralph quoted in Healthline 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.

February 27, 2017

Roy lab called upon technology to solve an evolutionary riddle

Featured in the winter Cascade here :

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

January 12, 2017

MOCHA Study shows Climate Regulation of Harmful Algal Blooms

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”.

August 8, 2016

Working group explores predictive models for microbiomes

Jessica Green and Ashkaan Fahimipour organized a 3-day working group at the Santa Fe Institute on the topic of modeling microbiomes. Former IE2 postdocs James O’Dwyer and Steve Kembel  were among the participants.. Some press from the group: http://www.santafe.edu/news/item/happening-now-sfi-working-group-explores-predictive-models-microbiomes/

June 23, 2016

Researcher crowdfunds basic science.

There is a crisis in research funding, and grassroots support may hold the answer for the most foundational branches of science.

Eugene, OR — Dr. Roo Vandegrift, a recent graduate of the doctoral program through the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon, has launching a crowdfunding effort to attempt to address issues surrounding the systematic defunding of basic sciences in the United States. The campaign is available on Kickstarter from June 22 to July 22, and will fund a project to create and illustrate a guide book to the Xylaria fungi (known as “dead man’s fingers”) of the Cloud Forests of Ecuador as a test case for crowdfunding in the basic science of taxonomy.

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