Paper by Kohn et al recieves Artery Research Best Paper Award for 2009
A cardiovascular phenotype in warfarin-resistant Vkorc1 mutant rats by Michael H Kohn, Roger Price, and Hans-Joachim Pelz recieved the Artery Research Best Paper Award 2009 at the Artery 9 meeting which was held at Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK, 10-12 September 2009.
Joan Strassmann and David Queller are co-authors on paper published in Nature
In work appearing today in the October 1st issue of Nature, Rice evolutionary biologists Joan Strassmann and David Queller join forces with BCM geneticist Gad Shaulsky to determine how altruistic mutants help preserve cooperative behavior by single-celled amoebas. Read the paper.
Putnam Awarded Beckman Award and NSF American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Grant
Nicholas Putnam, Assistant Professor. has recieved a 2009 Beckman Young Investigaotrs Award from the Arnold and Mable Beckman Foundation. The Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation makes grants to non-profit research institutions to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.
Nik has also recieved a NSF grant for nearly $1 millon to create genome-analysis tools under the American REcovery and Reinvestment Act. More Info
Tom Miller wins 2009 American Naturalist Student Paper Award
Thomas E. X. Miller is the recipient of the inaugural 2009 American Naturalist Student Paper Award for his contribution, “Herbivore-mediated ecological costs of reproduction shape the life history of an iteroparous plant” (T. E. X. Miller, B. Tenhumberg, and S. M. Louda, American Naturalist [2008] 171:141–149).
New theory on why male, female lemurs same size offered by Amy Dunham
In a paper featured on the cover of this month's Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Dunham offers one of the first new theories on lemur monomorphism in more than a decade. Read more about the find
This paper was also highlighted in Rice News.
Whitney project recieves Rice Faculty Intiatives Funding
Kenneth Whitney, assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology, and Michael Covington, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology, are studying seed-to-seed chemical signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. The newly discovered process involving the small, flowering plant has implications for evolutionary ecology and molecular mechanisms.
Owen Gilbert's finding featured in the NY Times
Texas can now boast what may be its most bizarre and undoubtedly its slimiest topper yet: the world’s largest known colony of clonal amoebas. Read more about the find
Joan Strassmann elected President of the Animal Behavior Society
PLoS Biology paper featured online
The recent paper published in PLoS Biology, Kin Discrimination Increases with Genetic Distance in a Social Amoeba by Ostrowski, Katoh, Shaulsky, Queller and Strassmann was recently featured online at both MSNBC and Science Daily.
James Coleman’s study of ecosystem carbon dioxide published in Nature
Dr. James Coleman is co-author on a paper published in the September 18 issue of the journal Nature. Their findings suggest that more frequent anomalously warm years may lead to a sustained decrease in carbon dioxide uptake by terrestrial ecosystems.
Nicholas Putnam’s study of Trichoplax genes published in Nature
Dr. Nicholas Putnam co-authored a study published in the journal Nature that breaks down the genetic code of the Trichoplax, a simple saltwater creature one might find anywhere in the world, even in the common household aquarium.
Read the RiceNews article
Lesley Campbell - Teaching with Technology webcast
Dr. Lesley Campbell explains how she uses OWL-Space CCM as part of her teaching, but also to promote collaboration and gather research data along with her students. This presentation is part of the Teaching with Technology Brown Bag series. Watch the webcast
EEB articles in Rice News
In amoeba world, cheating doesn't pay
Michael Kohn finds rodents immune to poison provide clues to medical mystery
Rice graduate student Chandra Jack choreographs cross-species cellular ballet
Ron Sass honored for his role in Nobel Prize-winning research on global warming
EEB undergraduates pair up on two peer-reviewed articles
Microbial cheaters help scientists ID social genes - Strassmann / Queller Lab
Animal Behavior Seminar for Bellaire Students
Owen Gilbert, Strassmann/Queller Lab
Crawfish Boil
Great weather and a fun time!
Pictures from the picnic
Animal Behavior and Evolution Day at Rice for Bellaire High School students
On Saturday morning, November 10th, the Rice students in Biosciences 321, Animal Behavior, hosted over 80 students from Ms. Loonam's AP Biology II class at Bellaire High School.
