The WFU Department of Biology is proud to celebrate the career of Professor Kathy Kron on the occasion of her retirement. Congratulations, Kathy! We are delighted that several of Kathy’s former graduate students (Emily Gillsepie and Tanja Schuster) shared their memories with us. Read more on Dr. Kron’s career below… Teacher-Scholar Legacies: Kathleen Kron
The WFU Department of Biology is proud to celebrate the career and extraordinary service to Wake Forest of Professor Carole Gibson on the occasion of her retirement. Thank you, Carole! Follow the link below to read more… Teacher-Scholar Legacies: Carole Gibson
Associate Professor of Biology Sarah Esstman has been awarded the Robert and Debra Lee Faculty Fellowship. This three-year award is given by the College in recognition of Dr. Esstman’s outstanding record of teaching and scholarship. Since joining the Biology faculty in 2017, Professor Esstman has taught courses in virology and molecular biology and led a…
Dr. Ke Zhang Reid was interviewed, for The Daily Deac’s Meet A Deac Monday edition, by Dr. Betsy Chapman (’92, MA ’94) on March 15, 2021. An excerpt is shown below. How would you describe your job, in layperson’s terms? I teach Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Epigenetics courses at the undergraduate level and graduate level….
The news service article by Laurie Willis features Dr. Sarah McDonald Esstman and her students studying the COVID-19 pandemic. Students in biology professor Sarah McDonald Esstman’s virology class spent several weeks exploring COVID-related topics for a course project. Groups named the virologists, the physicians, the epidemiologists, the immunologists, the communicators and the policy makers –…
We are saddened to announce that Raymond L. Wyatt (RL), Professor Emeritus of Biology, died November 26, 2020. He was 94 years old. Dr. Wyatt joined Wake Forest’s biology faculty in 1956. He retired in 1992. At Wake Forest, he was a plant taxonomist and started the herbarium in the department. Dr. Wyatt obtained his…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. Ke Zhang‘s proposal entitled “Investigation of multifunctional proteins that integrate packaging RNPs, RNA export, and translation” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Regina Cordy‘s proposal entitled “A systems biology investigation of the interplay…
Congratulations to WFU Biology undergraduate student, Samuel Schwartz! Samuel received an Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster award for his presentation “Viral influence on Synechococcus aggregate formation and predator response” at the Leo W. Parks Lectureship in Microbiology virtual event held on September 29, 2020. The e-poster sessions had twenty-two posters submitted equally by undergraduate and graduate…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members (grad students in bold) have had the following papers published: Allen EE, J Farrel, AF Harkey, DL John, GK Muday, JL Norris, B Wu. 2020. Time series adjustment enhancement of hierarchical modeling of Arabidopsis thaliana gene interactions. In: Martín-Vide C, M Vega-Rodríguez, T Wheeler (eds)…
Congratulations to WFU Biology undergraduate students, Hannah G. Watson and Andrew T. Ashchi! Earthworm Head was selected as one of the 8 best photos contributed to the 2019’s Wikipedia Science Photography Competition. Scanning electron micrograph of a newly hatched European Nighcrawler (Eisenia hortensis) by Hannah G. Watson, Andrew T. Aschi, Dr. Glen Marrs, and Dr….
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