Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. Gloria Muday‘s proposal entitled “Understanding mechanisms for maintaining ROS homeostasis to protect plant reproduction from high temperature stress” has been funded by the United States Department of Agriculture. Dr. Miles Silman and Dr. Luis Fernandez‘s proposal entitled “Protecting…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. Sheri Floge‘s proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: A matter of life & death: Assessing bacterioplankton as sources of vitamin B1 and vitamers to the surface ocean” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Ke Reid‘s proposal…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. Nicholas Kortessis‘ proposal entitled “IHBEM: The fear of here: Integrating place-based travel behavior and detection into novel infectious disease models” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Regina Cordy‘s proposal entitled “Investigating the role of…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. James Pease‘s proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: Integrating fossils, phylogenomics, and statistical machine learning to reveal population drivers of Cretaceous angiosperm innovations” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Regina Cordy‘s proposal entitled “A systems biology…
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS Chair of Biology Dr. Erik C. Johnson, Professor of Biology, has been newly appointed as Chair of Biology, effective July 1, 2022. We thank Dr. Johnson for his upcoming leadership and service in the year ahead! We would also like to thank, and show our appreciation to, Dr. Susan E. Fahrbach for her…
Sullivan Scholarships are designated “for expanding biological horizons.” Funds for undergraduate travel are provided from an endowment based on a bequest from the late Professor of Biology, Dr. Robert L. Sullivan. Students receiving awards this year will use them during spring break or summer to participate in field courses led by Wake Forest faculty. These courses are Bird…
A piece in Scientific American that covers a new global assessment of tree biodiversity shows that there are roughly 9,200 tree species yet to be discovered, suggesting that the world’s woods may hold more secrets than previously imagined. According to recent research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA on Monday, the…
The study, “Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From Artisanal Gold Mining,” appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research study was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University. Wake Forest Biology Professor Miles Silman and Wake Forest Research Professor Luis Fernandez mentored Gerson’s work at…
Dr. Miles Silman echoed Bobby Hege, the lakes program supervisor for the City of Winston-Salem Recreation and Parks that is overseeing the construction at Salem Lake, in the WFDD article by stating that many Piedmont area lake ecosystems are very resilient when it comes to disturbances because Salem Lake is man-made. If you think about…
Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded: Dr. James Pease‘s proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: BEE: Bridging the ecology and evolution of East African Acacias across time and space: genomics, ecosystem, and diversification” has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Miles Silman‘s proposal entitled “Advanced…
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