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Genetic identification of a neural circuit that suppresses appetite. Carter, ME, Soden, ME, Zweifel, LS, Palmiter, RD. Nature. (2013). doi:10.1038/nature12596. Continue reading »

Interested in doing summer research?  Watch this short 3 minute video about our summer science program…. Continue reading »

Click for this years Registration Advising Hours.  Don’t forget…there will be a PIZZA LUNCH in TBL 211 at noon on the first day of registration so you can hear have an opportunity to talk with faculty about what they are teaching next fall. Continue reading »

Click for important information regarding your poster and deadlines. Continue reading »

BioEyes Program introduces 4th Graders to Science WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Each year hundreds of thousands of students in thousands of classrooms learn about biology by studying animals that have died.  Read more…… Continue reading »

Williams, H., Levin, I.I., Norris, D.R., Newman, A.E.M., Wheelwright, N.T. (2013) Three decades of cultural evolution in Savannah sparrow songs. Animal Behaviour.  85:213-223. Continue reading »

Insights into bilaterian evolution from three spiralian genomes. Simakov O, Marletaz F, Cho SJ, Edsinger-Gonzales E, Havlak P, Hellsten U, Kuo DH, Larsson T, Lv J, Arendt D, Savage R, Osoegawa K, de Jong P,… Continue reading »

2-year Visiting Faculty Position Biology Department Williams College The Biology Department at Williams College, a premier liberal arts college with a long-standing tradition of excellence in the sciences, invites applications for a 2-year visiting assistant professor to begin July 2013.  We are seeking a broadly trained MOLECULAR… Continue reading »

Full Article:  Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? (continued from page 1) But we still don’t understand how it ages in reverse. There are several reasons for our ignorance, all of them maddeningly unsatisfying. There are, to begin with, very few specialists in the world committed… Continue reading »

“Partial complementarity of the mimetic yellow bar phenotype in Heliconius butterflies”… Continue reading »

Dispensable, redundant, complementary and cooperative roles of dopamine, octopamine and serotonin in Drosophila melanogaster… Continue reading »

Luana Maroja just published a paper in EVOLUTION: EDUCATION AND OUTREACH, titled “Where Do I Come From? Using Student’s Mitochondrial DNA to Teach About Phylogeny, Molecular Clocks, and Population Genetics”.  She uses this in Biology 305: Evolution. Continue reading »

Lois Banta and Derek Dean recent had their genomics curriculum development project published as the cover story for Cell Biology Education-Life Sciences Education. Here is the full link to the article: http://www.lifescied.org/cgi/content/full/11/3/203?etoc Lois has a second article in the same journal… Continue reading »

We are pleased to announce the 2012 Dartmouth Symposium for the Life Sciences, “Alternative Protein Conformations in Biology and Disease,” to be held on Thursday, October 11, 2012. Continue reading »

Ben Iliff ’10 just published a paper with Steve Swoap in the American Journal of Physiology.  This manuscript was from his thesis work, for which he shared the David Bruce award for top undergraduate poster at the Experimental Biology meetings in 2010. Continue reading »

Congratulations to Uttara Partap ’13 for publishing her work in two journals!!! Uttara Partap, Williams College, Biology major and Honors student, collaborated with David R Hill, MD, Professor of Medical Sciences, Director of Global Public Health, Frank H. Netter MD, School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, on two recently published… Continue reading »

Anna Szymanski ’12 has been awarded the Frederick Eugene Stratton 1872 Fellowship in Biology Graduate fellowship in Biology, awarded each year to a senior for further study at an institution belonging to the American Association of Universities. The fellowship is not renewable and is not to be used in any… Continue reading »

Uttara Partap ’13 was selected as one of the American Physiological Society Undergraduate research fellows for 2012.   In addition to a 10-week summer stipend, fellows receive a travel grant to allow them to attend and present their research at the APS annual meeting, which is a broad-based scientific meeting.  There… Continue reading »

Day Instructor Time Location Monday Altschuler Lynch Maroja MacIntire Ting 8:00 – 9:00 pm 1:00 – 3:00 2:00 – 4:30 2:00 – 4:00 10:00 – noon… Continue reading »