Biology
Our faculty are interested in a wide range of organisms and research areas. They have received funding from the John Templeton Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other prestigious funding agencies and foundations.
Areas of Research include:
- Animal behavior
- Bioinformatics
- Cell biology
- Development
- Ecology
- Evolution
- Genetics
- Marine biology
- Molecular biology
- Molecular evolution/systematics
- Neuroscience
- Physiology
- Population biology
- Signal Transduction
Submissions from 2023
New tRNA-targeting transposons that hijack phage and vesicles, Emily Dart and Nathan A. Ahlgren
Diverse Marine T4-like Cyanophage Communities Are Primarily Comprised of Low-Abundance Species Including Species with Distinct Seasonal, Persistent, Occasional, or Sporadic Dynamics, Emily Dart, Jed A. Fuhrman, and Nathan A. Ahlgren
Investigating the sequence landscape in the Drosophila initiator core promoter element using an enhanced MARZ algorithm, Jacqueline Dresch, Regan D. Conrad, Daniel Klonaros, and Robert Drewell
The Dictyostelium discoideum genome lacks significant DNA methylation and uncovers palindromic sequences as a source of false positives in bisulfite sequencing, Robert Drewell, Tayla C. Cormier, Jacob L. Steenwyk, James St Denis, Javier F. Tabima, Jacqueline Dresch, and Denis A. Larochelle
Transcriptome profile in Drosophila Kc and S2 embryonic cell lines, Daniel Klonaros, Jacqueline M. Dresch, and Robert A. Drewell
Comparative Genomic Analysis of 31 Phytophthora Genomes Reveals Genome Plasticity and Horizontal Gene Transfer, Brent A. Kronmiller, Nicolas Feau, Danyu Shen, Javier F. Tabima, Shahin S. Ali, Andrew D. Armitage, Felipe Arredondo, Bryan A. Bailey, Stephanie R. Bollmann, Angela Dale, Richard J. Harrison, Kelly Hrywkiw, Takao Kasuga, Rebecca McDougal, Charlotte F. Nellist, Preeti Panda, Sucheta Tripathy, Nari M. Williams, Wenwu Ye, Yuanchao Wang, Richard C. Hamelin, and Niklaus Grünwald
Behavioral diversity and biomechanical determinants of the outcome of a fish predator–prey interaction, Milton Q.G.A., III and Philip Bergmann
Evolution of chemical-cue-mediated antipredator behavior in threespine stickleback populations experiencing northern pike predation, Dale R. Stevens, Melissa A. Graham, Christina I. Bardjis, Susan A. Foster, John A. Baker, and Kaitlyn A. Mathis
Integrating environmental complexity and the plasticity-first hypothesis to study responses to human-altered habitats, Dale R. Stevens, Matthew Wund, and Kaitlyn B. Mathis
Faculty Work from 2016
Supplemental material for Reich 2016, Deborah Robertson, Hannah G. Reich, and Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley