Lisa Chu ’10 just published a paper with Steve Swoap in the Journal of Thermal Biology. This manuscript was from her thesis work, for which she shared the David Bruce award for top undergraduate poster at the Experimental Biology meetings in 2010. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306456511001665… Continue reading »
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 13, 2012 – Throughout the spring semester, the Williams College Center for Environmental Studies, Biology department, Political Science department, Maritime Studies program, and lecture committee will sponsor a symposium on oceans. The goal of this interdisciplinary symposium is to raise awareness about current environmental issues associated with… Continue reading »
Congratulations to Steve S. for his recent dispatch on thermoregulation in the journal Current Biology “Thermoregulation: An Orphan Receptor Finds Its Way in the Cold” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211013285… Continue reading »
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The Biology Department will host an open house for students thinking of doing a thesis as well as students considering summer research. Information Session: Wednesday, January 18th @ 7pm in TBL 112 Lab Open House: Thursday, January 19th from 2-4 pm, meet in… Continue reading »
Air Date: Week of November 11, 2011 Living On Earth Biologist Joan Edwards likes to look closely at plants, and particularly, plants that move fast. Her research at Williams College focuses on the mechanism of exploding plants,… Continue reading »
Professor Joan Edwards co-authored an article describing the Isle Royale Ragwort (Packera insulae-regalis), in Brittonia. Packera insulae-regalis (Asteraceae, Senecioneae) is a new species that is only known from one population occurring near the summit of Mount Franklin on Isle Royale, Michigan, U.S.A. It resembles both P. paupercula… Continue reading »
Congratulations to Derek Dean for his recent publication in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education on “The “Frankenplasmid” Lab, An Investigative Exercise for Teaching Recombinant DNA Methods.”… Continue reading »
Williams senior, Francesca Barrett, co-authored a paper from the Whitehead Institute lab where she worked this past summer. The paper is titled “Functional genomics reveal that the serine synthesis pathway is essential in breast cancer.” Congratulations Francesca!!!… Continue reading »
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Context-dependent function of “GATA switch” sites in vivo. Abstract Master transcriptional regulators of development often function through dispersed cis elements at endogenous target genes. While cis-elements are routinely studied in transfection and transgenic reporter assays, it is challenging to ascertain how they function in vivo. To address… Continue reading »
Do you have a strong interest in climate science? Read on….(also on the bio website). Graduate students in MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate are pleased to announce the 5th Graduate Climate Conference, to take place at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) on Cape Cod… Continue reading »
Professor Steven Zottoli has published a paper with two student co-authors. “Axon cap morphology of the sea robin (prionotus carolinus) mauthner cell is correlated with the presence of ‘signature’ field potentials and a C-type startle response.” Zottoli SJ, Wong TW, Agostini MA, Meyers JR. J. Comp. Neurol., 2011… Continue reading »
Biology Department Registration Advising Hours, April 25-28, 2011. Continue reading »
Professor Manuel Morales recently published “Model selection analysis of temporal variation in benefit for an ant-tended treehopper” in Ecology, Vol. 92, No. 3: 709-719. Continue reading »
Predation Risk Field Assistant Needed Amy Kuczynski is currently a Ph.D. student at Texas Tech University and is conducting a predation risk study in the Soutspansberg Mountains in South Africa. She is looking for enthusiastic field assistants to join her on this project. The details about the project, duties,… Continue reading »
Steve Johnson is the Course Director for an exciting field class offered through the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Environmental Studies Department. It is ENVS 2100- Topics in Applied Environmental Studies or “Colorado Ecosystem Field Studies.” This course is open to majors in Environmental Studies/Science, Biology, Geography or Geology at all… Continue reading »