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Author: Biology Department

Green Fruit, Deep Roots

September 22, 2011
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| Gloria Muday, muday, Outreach, plants, research

Wake Forest University’s Campus Garden overflows with tomatoes. But, with names like Never Ripe and Green Ripe, many will never be the rich, red orbs you’d slice up for sandwiches. These tomatoes – mutant varieties bred for research – will help Gloria K. Muday, Ph.D., a professor of biology, determine how the hormone ethylene can…

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Posted in Gloria Muday, muday, Outreach, plants, research Tagged Outreach, Plants, Research

William Smith Receives National Science Foundation Funding for Studies of Carbon/Water Relations at Treeline

September 18, 2011
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| ecology, Funding, plants, research, William Smith

Congratulations to Bill Smith, whose proposal entitled “Collaborative RUI Proposal: Effects of Contrasting Cloud Regimes on Plant Carbon/Water Relations at Treeline” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Wayne Silver Receives Funding for Neuroscience Training

September 1, 2011
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| Funding, Neuroscience, research, Wayne Silver

Congratulations to Wayne Silver, whose proposal entitled “Undergraduate neuroscience training cooperative between WFU and WSSU” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This innovative program will allow students at Winston-Salem State University, a historically black institution, to complete the requirements for the Neuroscience Minor at Wake Forest University. The goal of this…

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Posted in Funding, Neuroscience, research, Wayne Silver

Parasitologist Esch Featured by the BBC

March 28, 2011
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| Gerald Esch, Parasitology, research

WFU News Service Gerald Esch read an excerpt from his book, “Parasites and Infectious Disease: Discovery by Serendipity, and Otherwise” for a program on BBC Radio. His 2007 book deals with the role of serendipity in discovery as it applies to parasitism and infectious disease. The segment on the weekly BBC program, “Something Understood,” was…

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Mutant Green Tomatoes

October 6, 2010
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| Gloria Muday, muday, plants, research

    TECHJOURNAL.ORG recently published and article entitled “Mutant green tomatoes show research is key to tougher crops” which focuses on the work of Biology professor Gloria Muday’s laboratory. Excerpt: As fat summer tomatoes dangle in profusion from vines in gardens and farms across the country, researchers at Wake Forest University are looking for a way…

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Zeyl Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation for Research in Yeast Evolution

September 30, 2010
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| Clifford Zeyl, Funding, Genomics, research

Clifford Zeyl, professor of biology, has received funding from the National Science Foundation for his proposal “Collaborative research: The genomics of adaptation in experimental yeast populations during short and long-term selection on invasive growth.”

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Professor Peter Weigl: Renaissance Man of Biology

September 5, 2010
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| ecology, Outreach, Peter Weigl, research

Renaissance man Pete Weigl of biology becomes the first in his department to retire in 20 years. An article recently published by David Fyten of the  Office of Creative Services highlights the career of Peter D. Weigl. As an ecologist, Weigl has conducted research at and taken student and travel study groups to remote locations…

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Posted in ecology, Outreach, Peter Weigl, research

Nature’s Trick or Treat

October 24, 2009
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| Behavior, insects, William Conner

Windows on Wake Forest published an article about PhD. candidate Aaron Corcoran and Professor William Conner entitled, “Nature’s Trick or Treat” In the ongoing evolutionary battle between bats and moths, a species of tiger moth plays a trick with sound to avoid becoming a bat’s tasty treat, according to new research by professor William Conner…

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Posted in Behavior, insects, William Conner
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